As Japan is known as a ‘railway country,’ railways are well developed in Japan and have considerably more passengers than in other countries. However, most of them were concentrated in metropolitan areas, mainly Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka, where the tracks were meter gauge. Why was a standard gauge Shinkansen born in such a Japan? At the time, a number of steam locomotives were still in service in Japan. At the same time, electrification work was completed on the conventional line between Tokyo and Osaka, and the high-speed EMU train Kodama began to run; this was when the momentum for high-speed transit between major cities was beginning to build up.
The Great Railway Nation of Japan
If there were no Shinkansen ; Chapter : 1 ; 1-19
2024-08-31
19 pages
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