China launches super-speed test train

[Korean]

Source please!

Sure

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/world/asia/18rail.html?pagewanted=all

China Rail Chief’s Firing Hints at Trouble

The statement underscored concerns in some quarters that Mr. Liu cut corners in his all-out push to extend the rail system and to keep the project on schedule and within its budget. No accidents have been reported on the high-speed rail network, but reports suggest that construction quality may at times have been shoddy.

A person with ties to the ministry said that the concrete bases for the system’s tracks were so cheaply made, with inadequate use of chemical hardening agents, that trains would be unable to maintain their current speeds of about 217 miles per hour for more than a few years. In as little as five years, lower speeds, possibly below about 186 miles per hour, could be required as the rails become less straight, the expert said.

Strong concrete pillars require a large dose of high-quality fly ash, the byproduct of burning coal. But the speed of construction has far exceeded the available supply, according to a 2008 study by a Chinese railway design institute.

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Wenzhou crash was a power failure caused by human error

Those power failures by lightening strike and "human errors" don't happen in other country's HSR system. Somebody cut corners.

in recent years Germany

Germany, yes. That was more than 10 years ago.

and Japan's high speed trains both had more serious derailment and casuality than the Wenzhou accident,

That was a regular commuter train, not Shinkansen.

 

[TOPGUN]

Good job China looks awsome keep up the good work

 

[Korean]

Good job China looks awsome keep up the good work

China's former railway ministry engineer says he doesn't ride China's bullet trains. Why? He knows better than anyone else.

 

[beijingwalker]

high speed train derailments happened sometimes ,air crash also happens.but very rare and wont stop the technology advancement,Chinese high speed train system for years safely and quickly moved thousands of millions of people,the world biggest human movement,that's the achievement the country accomplished

Japan's high speed train accident,107 killed,550 injured

The Amagasaki rail crash occurred on 25 April 2005 at 09:19 local time (00:19 UTC), just after the local rush hour. The Rapid Service (a seven-car commuter train) came off the tracks on the West Japan Railway Company (JR West) Fukuchiyama Line (JR Takarazuka Line) in Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture, near Osaka, just before Amagasaki Station on its way for Dōshisha-mae via the JR Tōzai Line and the Gakkentoshi Line, and the front two carriages rammed into an apartment building. The first carriage slid into the first floor parking garage and as a result took days to remove. Of the roughly 700 passengers (initial estimate was 580 passengers) on board at the time of the crash, 106 passengers, in addition to the driver, were killed and 555 others injured. Most passengers and bystanders have said that the train appeared to have been travelling too fast. The incident was Japan's most serious since the 1963 Yokohama rail crash in which two passenger trains collided with a derailed freight train, killing 162 people

Germany's high speed train accident,101 people dead and 88 (estimated) injured

Eschede train disaster
The Eschede train disaster was the world's deadliest high-speed train accident. It occurred on 3 June 1998, near the village of Eschede in the Celle district of Lower Saxony, Germany. The toll of 101 people dead and 88 (estimated) injured surpassed the 1971 Dahlerau train disaster as the deadliest accident in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany. It was caused by a single fatigue crack in one wheel which, when it finally failed, caused the train to derail at a switch.

 

[Korean]

Japan's high speed train accident,107 killed,550 injured

Does this look like a high speed train to you?

 

[beijingwalker]

Chinese high speed train system for years safely and quickly moved thousands of millions of people,the world biggest human movement,that's the achievement the country accomplished.

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Does this look like a high speed train to you?

so even regular trains may have some accidents,low tech doesnt mean safety,right?

 

[oct605032048]

Does this look like a high speed train to you?

That's at best a subway. Probably because you live in US so you never seen a high speed train.

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

500 kmph passenger train sounds over ambitious...not sure about safety standards either....but China can do it, as human loss hardly matters to them as long as they are chasing any economical target....I guess, in a way they are right...they ve ample human resource which they can afford to waste....see, hundreds of chinese in this forum are so proud of Chinese economic growth....why not..they should be...at least they ve now learned so write in english and have got some stuff to counter that they are doing well....when I say some stuff...i meant it.......so enjoy this high ride....though everyone is damn sure that the tech is borrowed, stolen from Euro/Japan....chinese CCP is doing gr8 job in ensuring they are feeding their educated ppl with enough stuff to ensure CCP govmt remains in power without any freedom movement as long as possible....CCP propaganda!

The rail accident happened in this July was not a high speed train.

However, we still need to keep alert since a small mistake could potentially cause some huge human tragedy.

I am sure CCP has learned a valuable lesson this time.

 

[Korean]

That's at best a subway. Probably because you live in US so you never seen a high speed train.

And that's the scene of Amagasak crash, the so called Japanese "high speed train" you speak of.

No one ever died riding in Shinkansen or KTX. Not so with China's CRH, and Wenzhou certainly won't be the last.

 

[beijingwalker]

Chinese railway stations

 

[Korean]

The rail accident happened in this July was not a high speed train.

CRH2E, aka Shinkansen E2.

Shinkansen E2 in Japanese service.

 

[beijingwalker]

Chinese high speed train system for years safely and quickly moved thousands of millions of people,the world biggest human movement,that's the achievement the country accomplished.

 

[beijingwalker]

Chinese high speed train system for years safely and quickly moved thousands of millions of people,the world biggest human movement,that's the achievement the country accomplished.

 

[Götterdämmerung]

Sure

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/world/asia/18rail.html?pagewanted=all



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Those power failures by lightening strike and "human errors" don't happen in other country's HSR system. Somebody cut corners.


Germany, yes. That was more than 10 years ago.

But none of the above mentioned facts were directly related to the Wenzhou accident.

I still remember the fatal accident at Eschede, as I was working at Germany's number one news the Tagesschau at that time. The news came in when I just arrived at the office and the whole news office was in commotion. One of my colleague was almost sitting in that fatal train but decided not to buy a newspaper and took the train that left minutes earlier. That poor girl had to run to the bathroom to vomit when she knew how lucky she was.

The ICE has been plaqued with technical problems from the very beginning, just two years ago, we had huge problems with the axles and over 1800 sets of wheels had to be replaces. Fortunately no fatal problems occured, only one derailment in Cologne in 2008. Last years we had a hot summer and almost all the A/C broke down leaving thousands of passengers with a heatstroke and hundreds hospitalised.

 

[JohnyD]

Chinese railway stations

where are the passengers?????? are they banned!