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DID YOU KNOW? Britain was home to the first commercial maglev train as a shuttle to Birmingham airport

THE WORLD’S

FASTEST TRAINS

Hav ingbeeninoperationsince

2004,thistrainshuttles

passengerstoandfromPudong

InternationalA irportever y 15 to

20 minutes.Thejourneycoversa

distanceof 19 milesinan

impressiveeightminutesorless.

Shanghai (China)

Shanghai maglev

Chinacontinuestospeedinto

theleadw ithitslongerdistance

train.TranslatedtoEnglish,

Fuxingmeans‘renaissance’,

andthetrainsy mbolisesa

positivefutureforChina’s

advancedtechnology.

Beijing to Shanghai (China)

Fuxing Hao

Iftheimpressivetopspeedisn’t

enough,thistrainisbuiltusing

almostentirelyrenewableand

sustainablecomponents.

JourneysfromMilantoeither

FlorenceorRomearecompleted

inlessthanthreehours.

MilantoFlorence/Rome(Italy)

ItaloandFrecciarossa

Japan’ssuperfasttrainsaresome

ofthemostregular.Thebullet

trainsareimproved,speedier

versionsofthecountr y’sfirst

high-speedsystemin1964,and

itscitizenscontinuetoaccess

Japan’scitiesinrecordtimes.

Tohoku to Hokkaido (Japan)

Shinkansen H5 & E5

Chinacanboastofhav ingthe

world’s fastest driverless train,

w ith one of the top speeds

among trains around the world.

Originally this train was built to

improve transport as China hosts

the 2022 Winter Oly mpic Games.

Beijing and Zhangjiakou (China)

Jingzhang intercity

267 mph

249 mph

224 mph

220 mph

217 mph

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