280 miles per hour - 450 Kilometres per hour!
CI: China just did something no other country has managed to pull off. It built a train that hits 280 miles per hour on real tracks, with real passengers, and real wheels touching the ground. The CR450 is not a science project or a government promise. It completed over 600,000 kilometers of testing, broke Germany's long-standing speed record, and is now preparing to enter commercial service. At its operating speed of 400 kilometers per hour, it covers the distance between Beijing and Shanghai in under 3 hours, beating the total door-to-door time of a domestic flight on the same route. No airport lines. No baggage delays. Just a train that moves faster than most people thought a train ever could.
