Timeline of high-speed rail
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This is a timeline of high-speed rail.
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| 1891 | Engineer Károly Zipernowsky proposes a high-speed line Vienna–Budapest, bound for electric railcars at 250km/h. | Austria, Hungary | |
| 1893 | Dr. Wellington Adams proposes an air-line from Chicago to Saint Louis of 406 km At a speed of only 160 km/h. | United States | |
| 1899 | The Prussian state railway joins with ten electrical and engineering firms and electrified 72km of military owned railway between Marienfelde and Zossen in actual Germany. The line used three-phase current at 10 kilovolts and 45 Hz. | Germany | |
| 1903 | The Siemens & Halske-equipped railcar sa speed of 206.7 km/h on 23th October, and on 27 October the AEG-equipped railcar achieves 210.2 km/h.[1] | Germany | |
| 2016 | Extension | China has 22,000 kilometres (14,000 miles) of HSR as of end December 2016, accounting for two-thirds of the world's total.[2] | China |
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[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] For visual data: [7] [8] [9] For visual data: [10]
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References
- ↑ Sith Sastrasinh, "Electrical Train Marienfelde–Zossen in 1901", 21 January 2000, WorldRailFans. Accessed 23 January 2013.
- ↑ "China's high speed railway exceeds 20,000 km". chinadaily.com.cn. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
