Is it a Bird? A Plane?

431 km/h

[Shak]

Smiles abound inside the sleek train as, with a breathtaking whoosh, it rockets to 300 kilometers per hour in two minutes flat. Overhead, like a giant scoreboard, an LED blinks out our record-breaking progress till we top 430 kph.

[gluckman.com...]

WOW, what a ride this morning to Shanghai airport.

for a speed freak like me, this was just out of this world.

anyone else tried it?

Shak

[limbo]

Hope GNER is taking note, this would make Leeds to London a very nice trip ;)

[bill]

I didn't know this was online yet. They're just about to start up a Maglev train for the World Expo in Aichi Japan this year. I don't think that one's quite as fast as the one you were on Shak. ;)

[Shak]

neither did I until some guy mentioned it to me in a bar.

on another note, Shanghai taxi drivers are by FAR the craziest drivers I have ever ever experienced anywhere in the world.

every ride is like a battle, and the fact that 99% dont speak english is even more interesting.

Shak

[Neo541]

on another note, Shanghai taxi drivers are by FAR the craziest drivers I have ever ever experienced anywhere in the world.

every ride is like a battle, and the fact that 99% dont speak english is even more interesting.

Couldn't agree more...Coming from a small town in the U.S., it felt like even money when I stepped in one of those things as to whether I would live through it! ;)