Top 11 Countries with Fastest Operating Speed Trains

Featuring top 11 countries with highest high-speed railway speed limit in the world in 2016. Country with faster operating speed and earlier enforcement are placed higher.

Subscribe us:

CREDITS
=======
All materials used in this video are either self-created or taken within CC-BY license and public domain.

CC-BY materials:

[subscriberswithoutvideos-hmmq]

Trains in america moves at an incredible speed of 0.005 centimeters per year.

[nathangred]

As normal Chinese citizens, we don’t really care where we are on this list, but we do care that nowadays the trains are much faster and more reliable. The high speed railway definitely made our lives easier.

[yor_ni_smitai]

やっぱフランスすごいな
鉄輪で574km出せるとか異次元すぎる...
その技術力と広大な土地と平坦な大地が羨ましいわ

[tonyhawk]

As a French i'd say the two best are TGV and Shinkansen, built in the same period, and it's only nowadays that superpowers are able to equal their efficiency, these two trains were just decades ahead of their time.

[jaydenlin]

Many Chinese people first time go to U.S. are usually "Amazed " by how backward and inconvenient public transportation is in the U.S.

[itsuki]

The French TGV is the fastest gears train in the world, maglev are running with magnetic force, with no resistance with the tracks

[twbug]

The Shanghai MAGlev is the TransRapid and was invented by German DB. Just to let y'all know.
It started in Emsland, North-Germany and was tested there from 80s to 2011.
Then a big crash occured and they didn't have the right financial plans for the project anymore.

[alexandrevachez]

France's other lines (in white) are 300km/h and not 200km/h!

[Slazlo-Brovnik]

Fun Fact: almost all high speed trains are derivates of either different German ICE, French TGV or Japanese Shinkansen classes.

[patlab]

Big Error about the French TGV date, I was taking the TGV already in *1984* every week Marseille-Paris and vice versa!! But TGV was already in place well before 1983, the line was Paris-Lyon and vice versa

[boxbird]

While this train has yet to start operating commercially, the current world record for how fast a train has gone is held by a Japanese maglev that's to start commercially operating in 2027. It exceeded speeds of 600km/h during a test run.

What's interesting about this maglev is that unlike other maglevs that float about 1cm off the ground, this maglev floats 10cm off the ground to guarantee its safety in the event of an earthquake.

[dwchen]

The world's fastest regular track train record is France with speed over 574km/h, while on second is China with speed over 493km/h.
And that is for record breaking purpose, not operational speed.
Mostly operational bullet train speed operated arround the world have speed over 300km/h, 305km/h, and 320km/h.
While in China late last year just launched the new Fuxing train that run at 350km/h service between Beijing and Shanghai over 1300+km distance, it's the fastest in the world in operational outside Maglev.

Then you go Maglev.
Currently there is only one country on earth with Maglev in operation and that is China run in Shanghai Pudong airport to Shanghai city with speed over 431km/h.

Some of you probably mistaken for Japan Maglev that run at the speed of 603km/h which is not operational, only prototype.

[GFCordoba]

Spain has high speed trains since 1992. The first line was Madrid - Sevilla.

[katz_dezz]

France has a LOT more 300+kp/h lines than that including the LGV Bordeaux

[jetpigeon]

It is amazing that so many nations have surpassed the UK, when it comes to speed. As you all know it was the UK that invented the Steam Locomotive, and it was the UK that invented railways. For many years the UK rail network has been using older trains, even though the UK did have the Inter City 125 (Class 43) which was the fastest Diesel train at 125 MPH. That was in the late 1970's. However the UK is building the HS2 which will see trains travelling at 400 kmh in 2026.

[sandwich]

The Thalys, the Eurostar, the AGV, the KTX were build by france and the Thalys and the Eurostar are french.

[JOTLH]

People all over the world know, but at any rate, it is safe, accurate on time, it is Japan's Shinkansen that runs many trains. In the near future, the fastest expressive speed in the world will be the linear bullet train in Japan. The current world's highest speed is 603 km / h and it is a wonderful technology.

[kimjong-un]

The TGV and Shinkansen had set the standards for the world to follow. No one will beat that. Also the Maglev has shattered the TGV record held for quite a while.

[shuangshuang]

You can't run through a province in two hours in China, but in Europe you have already gone to another country

[MrLegacyr]

where is brazil's speed train??? ....owhhh yeah !!!! remember!!! still waiting for 30 years...