French set new rail speed record;TGV 574 KM/H April 3rd 2007

A French high-speed train (TGV) has smashed the world record for a train on conventional rails by a big margin, reaching 574.8km/h (356mph).

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[Andikat Jacob Dennis]

Its almost as fast as commercial airlines

[wwwsebi]

lol you english people should convert to SI not the whole world to your stupid system

[Fro7enDesigns]

The same company as this, Alstom, Built a high speed rail in USA from Boston to New York.

[chuydelsur]

Its 2013 and the US still doesn't have anything remotely comparable to this! Embarrassing!

[mr0belker]

I ride from London to Paris on Eurostar and she was fast 300 kmh and this train is double speed amazing train ride no limit lighting spark want to be on this ride

[PatrickChen007]

This train isn't running too fast, it's flying too low...

[240SSONLY]

but its a whopping 90 exhilarating kilometers per hour... lol

this thing does 575 wow !!!! i bet they had to wax the shit out it prior to this speed-line run with Teflon or some thing

[TheMourningBlade]

About 130000 hp at the max speed. correction

[Pieterjan P]

I'd say even faster ;-) no long security lines, no waiting for de icing, if its a route between 2 cities only you're probably faster at this speed!

[Samuel Shrago]

Actually, the Americans use the American system and the English use the metric system. We will convert our measurements when you learn your nationalities. 

[Nont55]

and in Thailand high speed train has a top speed of 90km/h

lol