SKOVDE, Sweden, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- Rail officials in Sweden say a test crew traveling 188 miles per hour set a speed record for a train on a Swedish railway.
BEIJING, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- China says it is ready to make the world's fastest bullet train with speeds of 236 mph (380 kilometers mph) to run on the Beijing-Shanghai sector.
BEIJING, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- China's first independently designed and manufactured bullet train capable of speeds of more than 180 mph has rolled off the production line.
SHANGHAI, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- China's new high-speed "bullet" trains will increase their top speed to 155 mph from 100 mph after a successful debut, state media said Monday.
TAIPEI, Taiwan, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Taiwan's new $15 billion, 185-mph commuter train system connecting 94 percent of the island's population, may be boycotted when it opens. "Cherish your life, don't be a guinea pig," Consumers' Foundation Chairman Cheng Jen-hung says in his boycott call. H
TOKYO, April 6 (UPI) -- East Japan Railway has unveiled its latest bullet train, code-named "Fastech 360Z," that is made to cruise at 224 mph.
TOKYO, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- A 5-year-old Japanese boy hopped a bullet train from Nagano to Tokyo, sparking a search by 1,000 police, it was reported Wednesday.
TOKYO, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- A bullet train running at 124 miles per hour jumped its tracks as an earthquake hit central Japan but, miraculously, no one was injured, reports said Monday.
SEOUL, March 30 (UPI) -- More than 1,800 people and government officials attended the opening ceremony Tuesday of the Korea National Railroad's high-speed bullet train in Seoul.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., March 4 (UPI) -- Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will open his own petition drive to repeal a constitutional amendment to build a bullet train from Miami to Orlando to Tampa.
