[photopress:logisticsBulletTrain.jpg,full,alignright]The latest version of bullet train in China will probably be launched this year. The body of the first Chinese designed and manufactured high-speed train has already rolled off the production line which means that it is keeping to schedule. The train is the latest model in the country’s China Railway High-speed (CRH) Series and China’s first locomotive capable of traveling at 300 kilometers per hour.
Slower CRH series — able to travel at 200 kilometers per hour — are already in service.
The company will deliver ten of the new trains to the Ministry of Railways in the first half of next year.
The trains, which can seat about 600 passengers, will run on the 115-km Beijing-Tianjin route before the Beijing Olympic Games in August 2008. They will reduce the journey time from the current 80 minutes to around half an hour.
Source: People’s Daily Online