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BEIJING: China has mastered braking technology designed to stop the world's fastest trains that travel at speeds of 500 kmph, a Chinese railway scientist has said. The eddy-current braking testing system has been completed and put into use, Li Heping, a senior researcher of China Academy of Railway Sciences, said.
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Eddy-current braking, a high-end technology for rail transportation, is used in high-speed trains travelling at 200 kmph or above. The technology is under development in countries that have high-speed railways, he said. Chinese researchers can make dynamic simulation to brake high-speed trains at a maximum speed of 500 kmph and launch testing research of eddy-current braking in all speeds and situations, he said. "Chinese high-speed railways are safe. I, as a researcher, travel by high-speed trains whenever possible. I hope fellow countrymen have confidence in the safety of China's high-speed trains," Li was quoted as saying by state-run Xinhua news agency. The fast-developing Chinese high-speed rail network suffered a setback after a massive accident in which a bullet train crashed into a stationary train on a high bridge in 2011. Forty people were killed and over a hundred injured in that accident after which China cautiously proceeded in launching these trains. The country's first high-speed railway, linking the Chinese capital Beijing and the neighbouring port city of Tianjin, was inaugurated in 2008, with trains travelling at a speed of 350 km per hour. In December last year, the high-speed line linking Beijing and Guangzhou -- the world's longest -- went into service, bringing China's total high-speed rail network in operation to a length of more than 9,300 km. China plans to have 18,000 km of high-speed lines in operation by 2015.

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Sort by: Newest | Oldest @ (India) 09 Mar, 2013 03:21 PM Parallely they must also Explore more and different methods of braking, such as one in air crafts (reverse thrusting) or with Air turbulence on front nose coupled with Drag racing car type parachute braking on roof tops or Air Spikes. (this would aid the braking substantially also reduce strain on the Body structure compared to braking only at the Wheels) Bolan (Mumbai) 08 Mar, 2013 10:15 PM Pretty much the same story. Chinese safety standards as per the report is dubious. Their airline considered most dangerous and hence comes as no surprise that their high sped trains though path breaking they still have to perfect their braking systems, which is quite amusing. The first thing that you may want to do on any moving object is to know how to stop that offensive thing, here the train is made and the braking systems are perfected later. But all said and done, Chinese are god at their jobs and may even sell some of these high speed trains to India, by the time India is ready for it. @ (India) replies to @ 09 Mar, 2013 03:26 PM P.S. The Air spikes could be regenerative. Lee (UK) replies to Bolan 08 Mar, 2013 11:32 PM If you read the article properly, it stated China mastered the braking technique for speed of 500kmph. No commerical high speed trains in the world run at this speed yet. China's high speed trains run at 300kmph. And the most dangerous airline you referred to is China Airline which belongs to Taiwan. You should not let your prejudice stops you getting the fact right before you comment.

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