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Rail speed records a lesson for the future of HST

Last updated on 12 October 2012 6:00

Since the Rainhill Locomotive Race in October 1829 the record speed with wheel-on-rail technology was pushed from 25 miles per hour to more than 500 km/h in Mai 1990. Stephenson's famous "Rocket" doubled the travelling speed of the stage coach. The following railway boom led, eventually, to the creation of...

Author(s): Warmuth Heinrich

Organisation(s): University of Vienna ;

1997

Austria

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