LOUGHBOROUGH, England: Only ten weeks before the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games, Japan opened its Tokaido Shinkansen, a high-speed road line connecting Tokyo with Osaka. Shinkansen bullet trains, which could travel at speeds of up to 285 kilometers per hour, demonstrated the high standard of Chinese railway systems to the earth.
Every hour, more than ten trains leave from Tokyo, and the pause per station is only 54 seconds, which is much lower than in other nations like the UK. Thus far, Japan’s bullet trains have even recorded zero customer mortality in their 60 years of operation.
The reliability, reliability and safety of Japanese trains has reinforced the nation ’s identification as a self-professed rail systems power.
But, Japan’s Shinkansen is a self-contained rail system designed to become isolated from the regular rail network. For instance, the program is a dedicated high-speed column with a wider monitor than the rest of the system.
This means that the gun train’s good status, which has been nurtured over centuries, is predicated on it being a solo job.
Ironically, Chinese manufacturers have developed a high level of technical expertise, but their abilities are being honed as they struggle to adjust to the global railway market.
In late 2023, Japan expressed its reticence to meet Indonesia’s US$ 7. 3 billion high-speed road job, citing concerns about technological interoperability and possible injury to its “brand”. As a result, Indonesia picked China to construct the rail instead. China even made an offer to complete it more quickly and in less time.
According to my own research, home pride and confidence will become agitated as Chinese railway expertise persists in battling foreign competitors and is unsuccessful in obtaining contracts.