Japan’s proposed example, based on E5 rolling stock run as Hayabusa on the Tōhoku Shinkansen, uses 13.1 kW per passenger, with car weight at 0.62 metric tons per head. The TGV runs at 26 kW and ...

Approaching Typhoon No. 10 is likely to cause severe disruptions to Shinkansen services when it makes landfall around Aug. 27, train operators said. At noon on Aug. 24, it was moving near the ...

Services on the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines were halted and delayed early on Aug. 17 as cancellations the previous day caused by heavy rain affected crew and train car preparations.

TOKYO (Bernama-Kyodo): Heavy rain canceled a total of 88 Sanyo Shinkansen bullet train services on Saturday and delayed 229 by up to around six hours, affecting about 139,300 people, Kyodo News ...

When the Shinkansen started running 60 years ago, it took four hours to travel from Tokyo to Osaka. Now, it takes less than two and a half hours. When the Tōkaidō Shinkansen, hailed as a ...

The cost of manufacturing each coach for the two trains, as stated by BEML, is ₹27.9 crore, which is much lower than the approximate cost of ₹46 crore for each Shinkansen E5 coach, as ...

Indian Railways is planning to launch a train inspired by Japan’s Shinkansen E5 train. The high-speed train is likely to be 320 kilometers per hour. However, the commercial operating speed of ...

Organizers of Saturday's adrenaline-filled trip, less than two weeks before Halloween, touted it as the "world's first haunted house experience on a running shinkansen." Aboard a chartered car of ...

The Japanese Shinkansen E5 series bullet trains, which India had initially considered for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad route, can achieve speeds of up to 320 km/h. The trainsets will be built at BEML’s ...

Explores the Hokuriku Shinkansen, the most punctual long-distance express train in the world, which takes its passengers to incredibly beautiful places in Japan. The team talk to a wasabi farmer ...

Initially, Japanese Shinkansen E5 trains, capable of running at a maximum speed of 350 kmph, were planned to operate on the line with an operational speed of 320 kmph and an average speed of 250 kmph.