Japan: News on next-generation shinkansen
Dave Fossett
Japanese Yahoo news report :
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20030627-00000184-kyodo-soci
The train represents an evolution of the current 700 series train, and will
be the first shinkansen train to incorporate tilting (up to 1 degree). This
will enable it to run at 270 km/h even on 2,500 m radius curves. Maximum
speed will be 300 km/h (on the Sanyo Shinkansen only)
The prototype is due to be delivered around March 2005 for extensive test
running before full-production trains enter service in autumn 2007.
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Dave Fossett
Saitama, JAPAN
http://www.h2.dion.ne.jp/~dajf/byunbyun/index.htm
tobias b koehler
Dave Fossett schrieb:
> There is a small artist's impression of the new N700 series train on a
> Japanese Yahoo news report :
> http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20030627-00000184-kyodo-soci
I don't see any pictures.
> The train represents an evolution of the current 700 series train, and will
> be the first shinkansen train to incorporate tilting (up to 1 degree). This
> will enable it to run at 270 km/h even on 2,500 m radius curves. Maximum
> speed will be 300 km/h (on the Sanyo Shinkansen only)
How much time does this save? It would be the first train
tilting at this speed.
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Dave Fossett
> > http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20030627-00000184-kyodo-soci
>
> I don't see any pictures.
There is a small artist's impression on the news report at the link above.
Can you not see it?
> How much time does this save? It would be the first train
> tilting at this speed.
It is expected to cut approximately 5 minutes off the current 2 hr 30 min
journey time between Tokyo and Osaka. Because of curves, there doesn't
appear to be any possibility of increasing the maximum speed beyond 270 km/h
on this route, but this isn't so bad when one considers that the line was
only designed for a maximum of 250 km/h when built in 1964, and trains never
ran above 220 km/h until the early 90s.
tobias b koehler
Dave Fossett schrieb:
>>>http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20030627-00000184-kyodo-soci
> There is a small artist's impression on the news report at the link above.
> Can you not see it?
I can't with any of my browsers that I tried ....
Can you send me a screenshot?
Access Systems
> Dave Fossett schrieb:
>>>>http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20030627-00000184-kyodo-soci
>> There is a small artist's impression on the news report at the link above.
>> Can you not see it?
> I can't with any of my browsers that I tried ....
I've tried a couple times too and with my limited Japanese I think I know
where it is supposed to be but is only a blank spot.
> Can you send me a screenshot?
would be nice also
arigato gosaimasta
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Dave Fossett
> I can't with any of my browsers that I tried ....
>
> Can you send me a screenshot?
Strange. The direct link to the image is:
http://jp.a1.yimg.com/7/50/6316/1056712985/img.news.yahoo.co.jp/images/20030627/kyodo/20030627-00000184-kyodo-soci-thum-000.jpg
Or try this if the long URL breaks up: http://tinyurl.com/fsi6
(The image is only a thumbnail, though.)
The same image is also included at the top of the JR West press release
page:
http://www.westjr.co.jp/news/newslist/article/030627b.html
A PDF version includes a larger copy of the same image.
http://www.westjr.co.jp/news/newslist/article/pdf/030627a_n700.pdf
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Dave Fossett
Saitama, Japan
http://www.h2.dion.ne.jp/~dajf/byunbyun/index.htm
tobias b koehler
Thank you very much.
I think the "white with two blue stripes" design looks a little
old meanwhile ....
Access Systems
> tobias b koehler wrote:
>> I can't with any of my browsers that I tried ....
>> Can you send me a screenshot?
> Or try this if the long URL breaks up: http://tinyurl.com/fsi6
> (The image is only a thumbnail, though.)
> http://www.westjr.co.jp/news/newslist/article/030627b.html
interesting, sort of looks like an E-4 front end...most people have no
idea of the number of trainsets and models of Skinkansen and think only of
the 0 series cars. are any of those even left in service, I thought they
pulled em years ago.??
> Dave Fossett
oh and if I haven't told you, great web site you have, probably the best
web site anywhere on a single rail service, Now if you put in some
photos of the flying junction near Takasaki you would really impress some
folks (or scare em off?)
Kenneth Lin
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> interesting, sort of looks like an E-4 front end...most people have no
> idea of the number of trainsets and models of Skinkansen and think only of
> the 0 series cars. are any of those even left in service, I thought they
> pulled em years ago.??
West Japan Railways were still using 0 series trainsets as of last November.
Kenneth Lin
Dave Fossett
> interesting, sort of looks like an E-4 front end...most people have no
> idea of the number of trainsets and models of Skinkansen and think only of
> the 0 series cars. are any of those even left in service, I thought they
> pulled em years ago.??
Yes, there are still a few of the original 0 series sets soldiering on in
the west of Japan. I think they have about two more years before they are
all gone.
They are being refitted with newer seats and repainted in a smart new paint
scheme. These sets are about 25 years old, but they don't look too bad for a
40-year-old design! There is a photo of one like this on the page below.
http://shinkansen.s24.xrea.com/west/0/
I'm hoping to travel west later this summer to stock up on photos of the new
livery for my website.
Takeru
The original 0 series will be gone in two or three year, for sure. And
200 series, which looks like 0 series in that they have "round nose,"
too, in the Tohoku and Joetsu shinkansen may be gone in a few year,
too. They are replacing with E4 series and E2-1000 series. So the
original "round-nose" style shinkansen will disappear .
Furthermore, the 100 series, whose maximam speed is 220km/h, is going
to disappear in this fall, maybe October. So, in Tokaido Shinkansen
there will be no shinkansen whose maximam speed is less than 270km/h.
Ulf Kutzner
Regards, ULF