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Today a new model of bullet trains from Japan was publicly unveiled, during a test that reached 382 kilometers per hour, just under half the speed of a medium-size commercial jet.
ALFA-X began testing last year to go smoothly in 2030, with the responsible company organizing a test, which took place at 00:00 (15:00 on Tuesday in Lisbon), for local journalists.
The current maximum speed of Japan’s bullet trains, called ‘shinkansen’, is 320 kilometers per hour (km / h), with the E5 model, which entered service in March 2011 and is operating in Japan and France. .
However, the ALFA-X model can reach a record speed of 400 km / h on traditional railway lines.
The responsible company, JR East, one of Japan’s railway companies, plans to use the ALFA-X to cover the route between Tokyo and the north of the country.
According to the local news agency Jiji Press, when the ALFA-X reached 320 km / h, the noise inside the wagons and the vibration were minimal, increasing slightly to 360 km / h, until at a certain point the train reached the maximum speed of 382 km / h.
“After a year and a half of testing, ALFA-X can now continue with a certain level of stability,” said one of JR East Koji Asano’s project managers, quoted by Jiji Press.
ALFA-X is not the fastest train, but it is the fastest on traditional railway lines.
Japan is developing another project, a magnetic levitation train (maglev) that will start operating in 2027 and will be able to travel at around 500 km / h.
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