The Tokaido Shinkansen connecting Tokyo and Shin-Osaka ... which adhered to the underside and then fell onto the tracks, displacing ballast and damaging equipment and windows.

The amazing line sees trains hurtling along at speeds up to 177mph, and is said to be the world's most punctual high-speed ...

So, on a recent trip to Japan, I was excited to book a journey on the country's famous Shinkansen, a bullet train that can reach top speeds of nearly 200 miles per hour. My one-way ticket was ...

The iconic "Doctor Yellow" train belonging to Central Japan Railway, or JR Central, arrived at Tokyo Station on Wednesday after completing its final inspection of tracks on the Tokaido Shinkansen ...

The two Doctor Yellow trains, T4 and T5 editions, have respectively traveled along the Tokaido and Sanyo shinkansen lines spanning Tokyo ... equipment that can fulfill the role of checking tracks and ...

Used for tamping and transporting ballast on the tracks, the maintenance vehicles collided when one struck the other while stationary. At Tokyo Station's Shinkansen gates, passengers could be seen ...

To meet the requirements, Japan's Shinkansen features measures built into the tracks to reduce noise and vibrations. The shape of the train's "nose" is also streamlined to reduce "tunnel boom", an ...

It currently spans 3,000km of track. The original and most famous Shinkansen line is the Tokaido line, which connects Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka, the country's three largest metropolitan areas.

The "Doctor Yellow" T4 edition track-testing bullet train for Japan's high-speed shinkansen lines arrives at JR Tokyo Station in the Japanese capital after making its final run on Jan. 29 ...

Jan. 29 (Jiji Press)--The iconic "Doctor Yellow" Shinkansen train of Central Japan Railway Co., or JR Tokai, arrived at Tokyo Station on Wednesday, completing its final inspection of tracks on the ...

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The president also revealed a plan to introduce a new type of train car on the Yamanashi maglev test track for the Linear Chuo Shinkansen project around this summer with the aim of reducing the ...