Modernization plans include great increase in electrification, permanent way improvement, and more all steel stock; railways are gradually regaining their prewar capacity, facilities, and speeds; two limited express trains operate daily between Tokyo and Osaka; they include observation cars, dining cars, and reclining seats in second class coaches, and run at same speed as before war; Japan ranks eighth in electrified mileage in world.
Japanese railway progress
Ry Gaz
Railway Gazette ; 96 , n 16
1952
3 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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