Talk:High-speed rail

400 People Killed?

Removed the sentence "This train however, crashed taking with it 400 lives^{[citation needed]}". I can't find this accident with 400 killed mentioned neither on Wikipedia's Railroad accidents nor other places. The phrase "This train" also contradicts the sentence above. And was "this train" an interurban? According to Middleton, the worst wreck with US interurbans was the Kingslake disaster with 41 killed. Pål Jensen

Japan's information incorrect?

The table says Japan has 2,118km of rail in operation but the real figure is 2387.7 km. Perhaps this could be due to the fact that it doesn't include the newly completed Kyushu Shinkansen (2011).

Also it says there's 377km of rail U/C but the real figure for Japan is 422.6

So the table should look like 2387.7 ; 422.6 ; 2810.3.

As for sources..Japan has several companies running each line. Simply visit the english or japanese wikipedia pages on Shinkansen and they have basically everysingle source...and length. I'll show you some simple math right here. U/C: Hokkaidō Shinkansen Shin-Aomori – Shin-Hakodate 148.9 km; Hokuriku Shinkansen Nagano – Kanazawa 228.0 km; Nagasaki route Takeo Onsen – Isahaya 45.7 km which is 422.6 km u/c

Not only that right underneath the table the article says "The Shinkansen system has grown to a 2,459 km (1,528 mi) network"...so either way you look at it the table is simply wrong. Also I am not sure where the 2,459km figure comes from (their source is simply a time table, nothing to do with length)...perhaps that user added the mini shinkansen and spur lines to the total..but in that case I don't know if those should be considered true HSR since they run below 150 km/h.

Hello. If you see mistakes in the article, please correct it. In fact, the table you were speaking about is a template, called in the article. It seems that a user deleted it today... --FlyAkwa (talk) 00:38, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Hi, that's a shame he deleted it. It was pretty good for rail-fans. Well, I couldn't figure out how to edit the table so that's why I made the post. I hope someone else can make another one, I am not skilled enough at wiki yet to do that. I updated the section on Japan anyway with the correct figures. --TheRationalDude (talk) 05:17, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

History - Early research

(Sorry, I can't edit yet, semi protected article)

I detected a little error in that section :

"In 1945 a Spanish inventor, Alejandoro Goicechen, invented a streamline diesel powered high speed train that while slightly slower than previous high-speed passenger trains, ..."

His real name is Alejandro Goicoechea, he was a Spanish engineer and the father of Talgo train (circa 1941).

That would be nice if someone could correct that, thanks.

--DubScott (talk) 07:43, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Hello. Effectively, this information is really incomplete because it's extracted from a very old newspaper (as we can see in the reference).
In fact, the history section must be entirely rewritten (I already delete all the US centred history). I think a chronology will be also a good thing. --FlyAkwa (talk) 09:31, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

I think it may be better to develop more "history of high speed rail" content in a separate article. bobrayner (talk) 12:15, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Did this train come into production? E.g. Fliegender Hamburger did so, and it ran at 160 km/h in 1933. Pål Jensen (talk) 13:53, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

the map of europe and asia is outdated

russia has a highspeed rail too--Alibaba445 (talk) 23:50, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

Russia has only one high-speed-line, between Moskva and St. Petersbourg, operated at 250 km/h with Siemens Velaro High Speed Train. This line is visible on the European map. None of the Europe and Asian map are outdated.

But if you have sourced informations about new high-speed-lines in Russia, you can add it on the map.

--FlyAkwa (talk) 00:48, 27 February 2012 (UTC)