seeing as the bullet train has been in operation for 60 years and undergone all sorts of design and operating system changes. Keiichi Kagayama, a corporate officer at Central Japan Railway Co ...

It is still in service as the Kodama, making it the oldest active train in Japan. Currently, the fastest bullet train is the ... than 80 percent of the car’s length. This leaves space for ...

Japan's famous bullet train used to make a loud BOOM sound when it travelled through tunnels. But, thanks to a spot of bird-watching, an engineer was able to fix the problem after he was inspired ...

Japan experiences more earthquakes than any country. But its transit system remains remarkably safe. The bullet train, for example, has never seen a death or serious injury due to an earthquake or ...

now Japan Rail, managed to almost double the speed of its fastest trains when it created the first Shinkansen, known in English as the bullet train. The first Shinkansen line opened on October 1 ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokaido Shinkansen bullet trains on some sections between Mikawa-Anjo near Nagoya in central Japan and Osaka are operating at a slower speed than usual due to snowfall in Maibara ...

Donna Burke has been the voice of Japan's bullet train for 20 years now. She also does voice over for Japan's earthquake ...

However, for the Japanese Bullet train, the Shinkansen DS-ATC signalling ... Trains were proposed to have a length of between 10 and 16 coaches. Each train will have a passenger capacity of ...