China is revolutionizing railway travel with the successful testing of its new magnetic levitation (Maglev) train, capable of ...

China built out its high-speed rail network in a remarkable two decades. Today, these railways total 25,000 miles, long enough to encircle the Earth. Photo-illustration by Newsweek ...

One of the biggest white whales of American infrastructure policy is the lack of a high-speed cross-country railway. Despite such systems existing and succeeding elsewhere throughout the world, the ...

That put Italy's AGV Italo, operating at just under 225 mph, temporarily in first place in the high-speed rail race, according to Railway Technology.. The South China Morning Post quotes a ...

High-speed rail service began in China in 2007 and now has the world's longest bullet train network, with routes nearing 10,000 kilometers in all. Getty Images.

China’s rail ambitions just keep growing. The latest addition to the country’s portfolio is a 277-kilometer (172-mile) high-speed train line along the southeastern coast, connecting the cities ...

On his first day in office, leader Xi Jinping inherited an ambitious road map to build 10,000 miles of high-speed rail to link China’s biggest cities. He took those plans and supersized them.

China’s high-speed rail service costs significantly less than similar systems in developed countries, but is considerably more expensive than conventional rail service. For the 419 km (260 mi) trip ...

High-speed rail train runs at over 250 km per hour, about twice the normal speed of a regular train. Under the current plan, the central government has approved to build, by 2020, 16,000 km of ...

Over the past several decades, China has developed the world’s largest high-speed rail network. Today, it spans a combined 45,000 kilometers and connects 96 percent of Chinese cities with ...

China is aiming to have 60,000 kilometers of high-speed rail online by 2030. Workers check a high-speed train at a maintenance workshop in Nanjing, in China's eastern Jiangsu province on December ...