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Need to cross China quickly? There’s a train for that

China loves its high-speed rail lines. Now the country is boasting that it is even faster and cheaper to go from one end to the other, with the "longest" high-speed rail line in the world -- a staggering 2,298 kilometer stretch of metal that reaches from north to south across the nation. The new trains move at 186 mph and run

Alan

Fastest Passenger Train

This might've been overlooked during the Christmas / CES / Google v. China period but China launched the world's fastest passenger train, the Harmony Express, at the end of December. The trains go 1069 km (664 miles)  from Guangzhou to Wuhan in around three hours with a top speed of 394 km/h (that's 245 mph).  For the purposes of comparison,

Andrew