high-speed rail: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	HSR • superspeed train

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Eurostar train with a yellow and blue front stands at a platform under the large arched glass roof of London St. Pancras station.

Gotthard Base Tunnel

A Swiss Federal Railways high-speed train emerges from the concrete portal of the Gotthard Base Tunnel, surrounded by grassy slopes and forested mountains.

A Shinkansen bullet train crosses a steel bridge in the foreground, with snow-capped Mount Fuji rising in the background under a clear blue sky in central Honshu, Japan.

White Shanghai maglev train with blue and orange stripes travels at high speed, with blurred modern skyscrapers in the background.

Shanghai Maglev Train with a white, streamlined body and teal and orange stripes travels on an elevated track near Shanghai Pudong International Airport.

French high-speed train

Take a ride along France's ecologically convenient TGV high-speed railroad from city to city

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