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Although many countries around the world now have bullet trains, the United States still has no high-speed train system.

At Tokyo Station, the city's main departure point for long-distance bullet trains, was no more crowded than usual on Thursday afternoon.

It even invested in Japanese-style bullet trains, rolling out a rail network admired around the globe.

As annoying as those kinks may be to consumers, at least cars don't travel at the super high speeds bullet trains can reach.

The plans called for a network to be built extending 16, 000 km by 2015 and for China to build state-of-the-art bullet trains.

The introduction of bullet trains on other routes harassed fare increases and a reduction in cheaper regular services.

High-speed trains are often called bullet trains, even though they don't travel nearly as fast as a bullet fired from a gun.

A video shot by a passenger of a weeping attendant on one of the bullet trains stranded on Sunday has gone viral.

Bullet trains were a symbol of China's leap towards modernity, so the crash and scandals have been about more than safety.

DRUNKEN salarymen tottering home after a night's karaoke are as much a feature of modern Japan as sushi bars and bullet trains.

Bullet trains would be run by another corporation while yet another body would clear JNR's historical debt.

They used theirs for bullet trains. Time to see ourselves as others see us.

The bullet trains were currently being operated between several Chinese cities. However, Beijing-Shanghai covers the longest distance.

China has bullet trains meanwhile we cant built an ordinary train tunnel in NJ. Thank you Republicans for driving us back to the stone age.

'Claiming most of the recently developed bullet trains as China's own may be good for national pride . . .

Just buy Japanese bullet trains, problems solved. If you want speedy trains, you want reliability.

They claimed that the bullet trains were built with advanced technology. How could lightning paralyze them so easily?

He visited China and saw newly built airports and bullet trains that are empty, ghost towns, and highways leading to nowhere.

Two bullet trains collided in the eastern province of Zhejiang, leaving more than three dozen people dead and scores more injured.

The safety of public transport has become politically sensitive after the collision of two bullet trains in July, in which 40 people died.

The collision was the first serious accident involving China's bullet trains, which began running in 2007.

Behind China's gleaming new high-rises, freeways and bullet trains, the bears see ghost towns, empty roads and superfluous rail lines.

However, the State Council, or cabinet, also made clear that its report was not an indictment of bullet trains.

Two of China's new bullet trains collided, killing at least 39 people and injuring nearly 200.

The crash of two Chinese bullet trains is, first and foremost, a human tragedy.

He adds that authorities have slowed down some bullet trains -- including the newest route -- to make the service safer and cheaper.

That pride was punctured by the collision of two bullet trains in July that killed 40 people.

It also lowered the operating speed of its existing bullet trains.

Six countries have put large sums into "bullet" trains: Japan, France, Germany, Spain, and, more recently, Italy and China.

Last week's crash involving two Chinese bullet trains is principally a human tragedy.

This month, Beijing trumpeted that Malaysia would buy 228 trains, the first export deal for Chinese-made bullet trains.

Japanis a technologically advanced nation with bullet trains that reach a speed of 300 (three hundred) kilometers an hour.

Another 210 people were injured in the first serious accident involving Chinese bullet trains.

Sometime in 2020 we can see a trial run of a high speed railway by which time the whole of China will be covered by bullet trains.

Bullet trains generally travel more than 240 kilometers an hour.

But though the fox scheme was dead, bullet trains in Florida were not.

The railway ministry plans 90 bullet trains a day in each direction.

There were similar incidents in 2007, the first year that China started to use bullet trains.

Foreign high-speed train producers who taught China how to make bullet trains disagree.

Can low-cost airlines beat bullet trains?

Will it be like their bullet trains?

"We are thinking of using the technology employed in our bullet trains, " Professor Aoki said.

ago, they rode bicycles and walked. now they have bullet trains. gotta give the Chinese a.

Beginning this month, more bullet trains in China will slow down to increase safety.

The bullet trains are operating between several cities in China for over an year.

See? ! This is precisely why we can never have bullet trains in the U. S.

A preview reveals trains with an uncanny resemblance to the latest Shinkansen bullet trains being introduced in Japan.

Today's fastest Bullet Trains cruise at 300 kilometers per hour (186. 4 mph), and make the Tokyo-Osaka trip in two hours and thirty minutes.

In Japan, they tell speeding bullet-trains to slow down in time to prevent derailments.

The Japanese Shinkansen ( "bullet" ) trains, for example, average 132 mph between Tokyo and Osaka, a distance of 320 miles.

That's what would have happened in Japan, where bullet trains have operated for half a century with zero fatalities.

There are bullet trains in Japan, China and France.

when you buy tickets for the shinkansen bullet trains or long - distance buses , first go to an open counter for service