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Japan Tests New Bullet Train

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the get-yer-move-on dept.

dmolavi writes " Japan's largest railway company began a test run for a new bullet train that it eventually aims to operate at a record-breaking 223 miles per hour -- faster than many propeller airplanes -- according to recent news reports. "

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  1. Only in Japan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Only in Japan would a train's noses look like manga characters!

  2. Re:_Continental_ Europe by madaxe42 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't be so daft. Trains in the UK are exemplary. I pay as little as £3000 a year to commute within london, and getting the train from bristol to london last night cost me as little as £115. And it only took 6 hours, I mean, it was 3 hours late, but that's pretty good, to be honest!

    Anyway, I think we should give tube drivers another raise. £60,000 just isn't enough to drive public transport 150 days a year. In fact, they need more holiday too. Won't somebody please think of their children? They only get two weeks off per month!

  3. In related news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Superman is confused as hell. "I can't remember if I'm faster than a speeding train and more powerful than a bullet, or the other way around," the superhero said in an interview Monday. "I mean, I guess it's really both, but now that bullets ARE trains, I'm all confused."