The nation constructed the Direttissime railways connecting major cities on devoted electrified high-speed track (although at speeds lower to what at present would be thought of high-speed rail) and developed the fast ETR 200 trainset. The only exception was the Direttissima between Florence and Rome, but it was not conceived to be a part of a high-speed line on a large scale. The second fastest operating conventional trains are the AGV 575 and the Frecciarossa a thousand with most commercial speed of 360 km/h . As these trainsets are each working on the Italian high speed network they are restricted to the national track speed of 300 km/h for commercial use.
Japanese National Railways engineers then began to check the development of a high-speed regular mass transit service. In 1955, they have been present on the Lille’s Electrotechnology Congress in France, and through a 6-month visit, the pinnacle engineer of JNR accompanied the deputy director Marcel Tessier at the DETE ...
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