Record-breaking train on track
By Xin Dingding | China Daily | Updated: 2010-12-04 06:55
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The Chinese designed and manufactured bullet train CRH380AL races along the tracks on Friday morning en route to breaking the world record for the fastest passenger train. Zhang Jianping / For China Daily |
XUZHOU, Jiangsu - Imagine how it feels to sit in a passenger jet as it hurtles down the runway just prior to take-off. That is the feeling a lucky group of passengers got to experience on Friday when China's newest fast train set a world record during a trial run as it hit 486.1 km/h on the Beijing-Shanghai line.
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