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The history of trains as a whole is a hymn to speed and reliability, passing through intrigue and a lot of money, but we are interested in the 10 fastest trains of our time.

The world of trains today looks unusual, this is due to the fact that since 1979 their high-tech brothers, machines from the future, Maglevs (from the English magnetic levitation - “magnetic levitation”), have joined the classic rail train. Proudly hovering above the magnetic canvas and driven by the latest achievements in the field of superconductors, they can become the transport of the future. In view of this, for each we will indicate the type of train and under what conditions the record was obtained, because somewhere on board the express there were no passengers, somewhere even drivers.

1. Shinkansen

The world speed record belongs to the Japanese maglev train, on April 21, 2015, on a special section during tests in Yamanashi Prefecture, the train was able to reach a speed of 603 kilometers per hour, there was only a driver on board. This is just an incredible number!

Test video:

In addition to the insane speed, you can add the amazing noiselessness of this super train, the absence of wheels makes the ride comfortable and surprisingly smooth.

Today, the Shinkansen is one of the fastest trains on commercial routes, with a speed of 443 km/h.

2.TGV POS

The first in speed among rail trains, but the second in the absolute standings, on the planet (for 2015) is the French TGV POS. What is surprising is that at the moment of fixing the speed record, the train was accelerated to an impressive figure of 574.8 km / h, while journalists and attendants were on board!

But even taking into account the world record, the speed of the train when moving on commercial routes does not exceed 320 km / h.

3. Shanghai Maglev Train

Next, we have the third place given to China with their Shanghai Maglev Train, as the name implies, this train plays in the category of wizards hanging in a powerful magnetic field. This incredible maglev holds a speed of 431 km / h for 90 seconds (during this time it manages to swallow 10.5 kilometers!), Which is up to the maximum speed of this train, then during the tests it was able to accelerate to 501 km / h.

4.CRH380A

Another record comes from China, a train with an incredibly euphonious name “CRH380A”, which took an honorable fourth place. The maximum speed on the route, as the name implies, is 380 km / h, and the maximum recorded result is 486.1 km / h. It is noteworthy that this high-speed train is assembled and produced entirely based on Chinese production facilities. The train carries almost 500 passengers, and boarding is implemented like in an airplane.

5.TR-09

Location: Germany - maximum speed 450 km / h. Name TR-09.

The fifth number from the country of the fastest roads is autobahns, and if Germany can really be classified as the fastest country in terms of speed on the roads, then trains are far from number 1.

In sixth place is a train from South Korea. The KTX2, which is what the Korean bullet train is called, was able to reach 352 km/h, but at the moment the maximum speed on commercial routes is limited to 300 km/h.

7.THSR700T

The next hero, although not the fastest train on the planet, still deserves a separate applause, the reason for this is an impressive capacity of 989 passengers! considered one of the most capacious and fastest modes of transport.

8.AVETalgo-350

We arrive at the eighth place and we stop in Spain on board the AVETalgo-350 (Alta Velocidad Española), nicknamed the Platypus. The nickname comes from the aerodynamic look of the lead car (well, you can see for yourself), but no matter how funny our hero looks, the speed of 330 km / h makes him eligible to participate in our rating!

9 Eurostar Train

9th place Eurostar Train - France, the train is not so fast 300 km / h (not far from our Sapsan), but the capacity of the train is impressive 900 passengers. By the way, it was on this train that the participants of the famous TV show Top Gear (now deceased, if you like it like me, thumbs up!) competed with the amazing Aston Martin DB9 in season 4, episode 1.

10. Peregrine falcon

On the 10th place, of course, you need to put the Italian "ETR 500" with its good 300 km / h, but I want to put our quite fast Sapsan. Although the current operating speed of this train is limited to 250 km/h, its modernization (and rather modernization of the tracks) will allow the train to go at a speed of 350 km/h. At the moment - this is not possible for a variety of reasons, one of them is the vortex effect, which is capable of knocking an adult person off their feet at a distance of 5 meters from the tracks. Sapsan also sets one funny record - this is the widest high-speed train in the world. Although the train was built on the platform of Siemens, due to the wider gauge used in Russia 1520 mm, against the European one of 1435 mm, it became possible to increase the width of the car by 300 mm, this makes the Sapsan the most “pot-bellied” bullet train.

The high-speed Sapsan train of the Velaro RUS series, the first train of this class in Russia capable of reaching a speed of 250 kilometers per hour, will set off on the first regular flight from Moscow to St. Petersburg on December 17 in the evening.

Below is the data on high-speed trains in the world.

"Intercity" (InterCity) - a network of high-speed trains in the UK, covering all major cities in England, Scotland and Wales. The network is divided into seven directions, each of which serves a specific area of ​​foggy Albion.

The "Intercity" brand was introduced in 1950 as the name of a London Wolverhampton train. The rolling stock at different times included 7 classes of trains, of which today the most widespread are: Intercity 125 (maximum operating speed 200 km / h) and Intercity 225 (maximum operating speed - 225 km / h). The trains are designed and built by subsidiaries of British Rail.

TGV (TGV, French for "high-speed train") is a French high-speed electric train network developed by Alstom and the national French railway operator SNCF. The first branch was opened in 1981 between Paris and Lyon.

The TGV network covers cities in the south, west and northeast of France: Lyon, Tours, Le Mans, Lille, Marseille, Strasbourg, as well as several cities in Switzerland. TGV lines are linked to other high-speed train networks: Talis in the north and east (Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands) and Eurostar in the west (UK).

TGV trains are capable of moving at speeds up to 320 km/h - this was made possible thanks to the construction of special railway lines without sharp turns. The trains are equipped with powerful traction engines, articulated cars, lightweight wheeled bogies, as well as automatic locomotive signaling devices, thanks to which the driver does not need to focus on traffic lights when driving at high speeds. The vast majority of TGV trains serve for passenger traffic, but there are also a few mail trains operating Paris-Lyon services.

TGV uses specially built tracks, called LVW (French ligne a grande vitesse - "high-speed line"), specially designed for movement at speeds over 300 km / h. TGV can also move along conventional railway lines at a speed of no more than 220 km / h.

The number of passengers transported by TGV trains throughout their history is approaching 2 billion. The annual passenger traffic is now about 130 million people (2008).

"Thalys" (Thalys) - a network of high-speed railway lines linking Paris (France), Brussels (Belgium), Amsterdam (Netherlands) and Cologne (Germany). The decision to build a high-speed line Paris - Brussels - Cologne - Amsterdam was made in 1987 by the national railway operators of the four countries participating in the project, and on June 4, 1996, the first train set off on the Paris Brussels Amsterdam route.

Intermediate points through which Talis trains run are Antwerp, Rotterdam, The Hague, Liège and Aachen. Trains follow both dedicated high-speed lines and old tracks for regular trains. In the future, it is planned to completely switch to high-speed lines. Lines are planned via Cologne to Frankfurt am Main. An obstacle to this is the insufficient supply of the contact network in Germany. Travel time from Brussels to Paris is typically 82 minutes (distance approximately 300 km). The maximum allowed speed (depending on the type of track) is 300 km/h

Talis operates train models similar to those of the TGV, manufactured by the French company Alstom.

Eurostar is a railway network connecting London and Kent in the UK with the cities of Paris, Lille (France) and Brussels (Belgium). Eurostar trains cross the English Channel through the Eurotunnel, laid under its bottom.

The train "Eurostar", in essence, is an elongated modification of the composition of the TGV, adapted for operation in the UK and the Eurotunnel. Differences include a smaller wagon volume to meet the British standard for railway rolling stock, UK-built asynchronous traction motors and an improved fire safety system in the event of a fire in the tunnel.

The train was designed by GEC Alsthom (now Alstom) at the factories in La Rochelle (France), Belfort (France) and Washwood Hat (England), and began operation in 1993.

There are two types of Eurostar trains: Eurostar Three Capitals (Eng. "Three Capitals") consists of two head and eighteen passenger cars with two additional motor bogies; Eurostar North of London (eng. "North of London") consists of 14 passenger cars. Both types of trains consist of two parts that are not articulated in the middle, that is, in the event of a breakdown or emergency in the Eurotunnel, half of the train can be unhooked so that it leaves the tunnel under its own power. Each such half of the composition has its own number.

All Eurostar trains are adapted to operate on LGV AC lines (including the Eurotunnel line and standard lines in the UK), Belgian DC lines and British third rail systems common in the south of the country.

Eurostar North of London trains have never been used for international flights: they carry passengers from London to cities north of the capital, but these services are currently not profitable due to a serious reduction in prices for domestic air travel.

The annual passenger flow of the Eurostar network is more than 9 million people (2008).

"Intercity Express" (Intercity Express, ICE) - a network of high-speed trains, common in Germany and covering the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark and France. Designed and commissioned by Deutsche Bahn. The rolling stock is currently being manufactured by a consortium led by Siemens AG. The total length of sections on which Intercity Express can reach speeds of more than 230 km/h is 1,200 km.

"Intercity Express" is engaged in passenger transportation to all major German cities: Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Hannover, Stuttgart Bremen, Nuremberg, Dresden, Leipzig, Cologne, Bonn, and also connects Germany with neighboring countries through flights to Amsterdam (Holland), Liege and Brussels (Belgium), Paris (France), Zurich and Basel (Switzerland), Vienna (Austria), Aarhus and Copenhagen (Denmark). Unlike the French TGV or the Japanese Shinkansen, the Intercity Express was not developed as a single system and, therefore, far from all sections of the latest generation trains (ICE 3) can reach their maximum speed of 330 km / h. The section with the most routes is the München-Augsburg high-speed section with over 300 trains per day.

Unlike most high-speed train networks, which tend to radiate from one main point (TGV from Paris, Shinkansen from Tokyo), the Intercity Express network has four branches running north-south and three - from east to west. Three of the four branches from north to south start in Hamburg and end in Munich.

"Shinkansen" (jap. "new highway") is a high-speed railway network in Japan, designed to transport passengers between major cities in the country. Owned by Japan Railways. The first line was opened between Tokyo and Osaka in 1964.

The Shinkansen network uses 1435 mm European gauge, which distinguishes it from the older 1067 mm gauge Japanese railway lines. The shinkansen lines are electrified by a single-phase alternating current system of 25 kV 60 Hz, on the mini-shinkansen lines the voltage is 20 kV.

The oldest Shinkansen line (Tokyo-Osaka) is currently the busiest: it carries about 375,000 passengers daily. In total, this high-speed train system transports 150 million people a year (409 thousand people a day), and the total number of passengers who have used the Shinkansen services since its inception has exceeded 6 billion.

The total length of the Shinkansen lines is 2459 km. They cover all major cities of Kyushu and Honshu.

There are six main lines in the Shinkansen system: Tokyo-Osaka, Osaka-Hakata, Tokyo-Hachinohe, Omiya-Niigata, Takasaki-Nagano and Yatsushiro-Kagoshima, and 2 more lines known as Mini Shinkansen: Fukushima-Shinjo and Morioka Akita.

Shinkansen trains can have up to 16 cars 25 meters long, the head cars are usually slightly longer. The total length of the train is about 400 meters.

Initially, the Shinkansen network was intended for both passenger and freight traffic around the clock. Later, freight traffic was canceled and a technological break was introduced on all lines from 0:00 to 06:00.

The maximum nominal train speed is reached on the Nozomi route (on the stretch between the cities of Hiroshima and Hakata) is 300 km/h.

"Shanghai maglev" (from the English maglev - magnetic levitation - "maglev") is the world's first commercial railway line on a magnetic suspension, operated in the city of Shanghai (PRC). It connects Longyang Lu City Subway Station with Pudong International Airport and covers a distance of 30 km in 7-8 minutes, reaching a speed of up to 431 km/h (average speed is 350 km/h). Designed and built by the German company Transrapid, opened in 2002, put into operation on December 31, 2002. Until 2010, the line was planned to be extended to Hongqiao Airport and further southwest to Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province, after which its length would be 175 km. However, the construction was put on hold due to the potential for harmful effects of electromagnetic waves on local residents whose homes are located in close proximity to the future extension of the highway.

"Acela Express" (a combination of the English words acceleration and excellence - "acceleration" and "superiority") is a high-speed train connecting the American cities of Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston. The Asela Express runs along the "Northeast Corridor" railroad that runs parallel to the Atlantic Ocean through densely populated areas of the northeastern United States.

The total length of the high-speed line is 735 km, and its northern part is only 8 km longer than the southern one (372 km and 364 km, respectively). Virtually the entire line is owned by Amtrak (Amtrak, National Railroad Passenger Corporation), with the exception of a small section in the northern suburbs of New York (between New Rochelle and New Haven), owned by Metro North Railroad - the operator of commuter passenger transportation to the north from New York.

The rolling stock for Asela was produced at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries by a consortium consisting of the Canadian Bombardier (75%) and the French Alstom (25%). Each train has a capacity of 304 passengers and consists of two locomotives at both ends of the train and six intermediate cars: four business class cars (2+2 seating arrangement), one first class car (2+1 seating arrangement) and one restaurant/bar car.

The maximum speed of Asela in regular passenger traffic is 241 km/h. The route speed is lower: when traveling from end to end along the entire 735 km route, it is 109-113 km / h, depending on the flight and the number of stops.

"Asela Express" leaves the route every day at 06.00, runs at intervals of an hour or more (depending on the day of the week) and ends at 20.00.

Asela's annual passenger traffic is about 3.2 million people (2007). The express transports more than 8.7 thousand people per day.

The first train built in England reached 38 km/h, surprising the townspeople and giving horse-drawn stagecoaches of the 19th century a hundred points ahead. Today, when the priority of long-distance travel is given to air transport, the appearance of a train that can reach speeds of up to 603 km/h can also change our perception.

Technologically, trains have evolved in the following sequence: locomotive traction, electric traction, magnetic cushion. Electric traction almost completely replaced steam 80-90 years after the appearance of the first steam locomotive, but still has not exhausted its potential, despite the development of magnetic levitation (maglev).

Japanese engineers went in two directions at once: to improve existing technologies and to develop new ones. Back in 1964, the Shinkansen high-speed highway was opened in Japan. Trains reach speeds of up to 320 km/h due to improved aerodynamic characteristics, new types of engines and other structural improvements. Other manufacturers of high-speed trains have also taken this path: French Alstom, American Bombardier, Spanish Talgo and German Siemens. Each of the companies has among its developments high-speed trains capable of reaching speeds of over 200 km/h. The era of high-speed trains in Russia began in 2009, when the first Sapsan was launched on the Moscow-St. Petersburg route, manufactured by Siemens based on the Velaro E high-speed train model and adapted for our country.

Japanese trains Shinkansen ranked third in the ranking of the fastest trains in the world.

The fastest operating maglev train in China is the Shanghai Maglev. The word "maglev" comes from an abbreviation of two: magnetic levitation. The essence of the technology lies in the mutual action of magnets, the same poles of which repel each other. This overcomes the main problem of rail trains - friction on the surface. The new technology required not only new trains without wheelsets, but also new infrastructure: a special T-shaped rail bed laid on a concrete pad. Visually, the train covers the rail from all sides, rising in motion by only 1-2 cm above the canvas. Shanghai maglev overcomes the route of 30 km in 7 minutes and 20 seconds. The maximum speed reaches 430 km / h.

shanghai maglev- silver champion of high-speed movement among trains.

Another Japanese train, the JR-Maglev, has recently become the leader in speed. It was his experimental trips that showed a speed of 603 km / h. The Japanese technology of magnetic levitation is somewhat different from that implemented in China - levitation is carried out using superconducting magnets. In practice, this means greater stability of movement. The appearance of the railway track and the design of the train itself have changed. A feature of the technology is its efficiency only at high speeds, which implies that trains have wheelsets for movement at speeds of less than 100 km/h.

JR-Maglev— the fastest train in the world, the commercial operation of which is scheduled to begin in 2027. The maximum speed reaches 603 km / h.

While the introduction of high-speed electric trains is beginning in most countries, scientists are discussing the development of magnetic levitation: if a train on a magnetic cushion runs in a vacuum tunnel, air resistance can be avoided. Theoretically, the speed of such trains will reach 6000-8000 km/h.

February 13, 2016 There is no common understanding of the term “best” in relation to passenger trains in the world, since comfort, speed, cost of the trip, and a number of other factors are important for the passenger. Therefore, railway companies and train designers are working in different directions - increase speed, improve comfort, achieve lower energy consumption and cost of transportation. We will tell you what has been done in these areas in recent years in Russia.

peregrine falcon

The most famous high-speed electric train in Russia today, it even has its own Twitter account and a LiveJournal blog. The Sapsan project was developed specifically for Russia by the German company Siemens.

On December 17, 2009, Sapsan set off on its first, loudly advertised commercial flight from Moscow to St. Petersburg, and now runs on the Moscow - St. Petersburg (five trains per day) and Moscow - Nizhny Novgorod (two trains per day) lines. The electric train is capable of speeds up to 300 km/h, but on Russian roads its maximum speed is 250 km/h, on the section Malaya Vishera - Okulovka (Mstinsky bridge), and the main part of the Sapsan track moves at a speed of 200 km/h. The number of cars in the train is 10, the number of seats is 592.

The fare on the Sapsan on the Moscow-St. rubles in business class.

Allegro

This high-speed train, well-known to St. Petersburg residents, can be considered Russian, at best, half. The Allegro train runs between St. Petersburg and the capital of Finland, Helsinki, and is jointly operated by Russian Railways and the Finnish company Suomen Valtion Rautatiet. The project developer and manufacturer is the Finnish company Alstom.

On the territory of Finland, the train moves at a speed of 220 km / h, on the territory of Russia - at a speed of 200 km / h, the railway infrastructure no longer allows. The distance from our northern capital to the capital of the Suomi Country is covered by the Allegro high-speed train in 3 hours 50 minutes, with stops in the border Vyborg and some Finnish cities - Vainikkala, Lahti, Pasila and others.

The number of cars in the Allegro train is 7, the number of seats is 352, plus 2 seats for the disabled. The basic fare is 84 euros in the second class carriage and 104 euros in the first class.

ES "Lastochka"

This high-speed electric train, plying in the Krasnodar Territory, can rightly be considered "the most expensive electric train in Russia." Lastochka is one of the most ambitious and costly projects related to the 2014 Olympics. For its implementation, in 2009 Russian Railways signed a contract with the German company Siemens, according to which the company must supply 54 Siemens Desiro Rus electric trains to Russia in the amount of 410 million euros. And in 2013, Russian Railways signed a new contract with Siemens for the maintenance and service of trains for 40 years, worth 500 million euros. By the way, the letters ES in the name of the train mean Electrosiemens.

Each "Swallow" has five cars. Seats - 409; there are also 4 seats for passengers with disabilities, and a toilet room. With a large passenger flow, for example, along the Adler-Tuapse route, two coupled trains of 10 cars are sent on a flight.

And if it weren’t for the boorish controllers of the Russian Railways and the wagons packed with passengers to the eyeballs, these electric trains could be safely called one of the most comfortable modes of transport in Russia. In the summer months, despite the high season and crowds of tourists, electric trains on the Tuapse-Sochi-Olympic Park route rarely run, because of this, most passengers have to stand for hours in unsuitable aisles. It looks something like in the Moscow metro cars at rush hour, but unlike the metro, the Swallows' salons with narrow aisles are not at all suitable for standing passengers.

At home, in Spain, this high-speed train is called Talgo 250. True, Spanish, from the company Patentes Talgo S.L, there are only wagons in the train, it is planned to use domestic locomotives - EP20. Starting June 1, 2015, the Swifts will run on the route Moscow - Nizhny Novgorod. From the capital, with stops in Dzerzhinsk and Vladimir, the train will run to Nizhny Novgorod in 3 hours and 45 minutes.

The number of cars in the Strizh train is from 7 to 11. There are 299 passenger seats in an 11-car train, and 236 seats in a standard 8-car train. The fare in a car with standard seats is 1,150 rubles, in a deluxe class car - 7,570 rubles.

Since 2013, train No. 103 has been running on the Moscow-Adler route with double-deck cars manufactured at the Tver Carriage Works. In such a carriage (compartment) there are 64 berths instead of the usual 36, and in a SV-class carriage there are 32 places (instead of 18 in the usual version). Such a “compression” should have led to cheaper tickets, but so far nothing of the kind has been observed. A seat in a compartment to Adler in a double-decker car costs 7,540 rubles, and in a single-decker car it costs 7,140 rubles. From June 1, 2015, a passenger train with double-decker cars No. 5\6 will run along the most popular route Moscow - St. Petersburg, the cost of a compartment ticket to St. Petersburg is 2,670 rubles.

In general, we have to state that the “best” passenger trains in Russia are by no means the best, because they are not the fastest, not the most comfortable and not quite “ours”. Of all the loudly publicized projects of Russian Railways listed above, only double-decker cars are produced in Russia, but the trains that are formed from them are ordinary, except that the passengers in them had to “make room” a little and additionally “fork out”. There was also the long-suffering "Falcon-250" and did not "take off" ....

"Falcon-250"

About sixty Russian enterprises and organizations took part in the creation of a prototype domestic model of a high-speed dual-powered electric train (on direct and alternating current) Sokol-250. It was assumed that the new train will be able to reach speeds of up to 350 km / h. At the acceptance tests of the Sokol-250 prototype in June 2001, for the first time, a speed of 236 km / h was reached - a record for the Russian railways of that time. However, the acceptance committee recognized the commissioning of the Sokol as impossible due to many design flaws - overheating of the brake discs, unreliability of the brake system, insufficient tightness of the cars, etc. Several cars from the Sokol-250 experimental train are on the sidings of the Central Museum October railway.