It's fast, reliable, and smooth. Japan's Shinkansen (bullet train) rockets you across the country while offering breathtaking ...

The top speed of a train on the Chuo Shinkansen line is 314 mph. Viewers laugh after watching test run of Japan's new ...

China operates the most extensive high-speed rail network in the world, with more than 24,855 miles of operational lines, ...

The Maglev train, developed by Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) in collaboration with the Railway Technical ...

While it's not yet operational, China has been testing a magnetic levitation (maglev) train, the CR450 and successfully clocked speeds exceeding 620 miles per hour. For a bit of context, your average ...

Stephen Mattingly, a civil engineering professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, explains in this interview why high-speed rail projects in much of the country so often go off track.

Visiting Shanghai is an exhilarating experience. This financial hub of 25 million was seemingly made for skyscraper-ogling, fashion-finding and dumpling-sampling. Its metro system is clean and ...

Rep. Seth Moulton’s breezy cheerleading for California’s high-speed rail project in “America Should Travel Fast” (Letters, July 28) offers no persuasive reasons to persist in spending billions of ...

Travel time on higher-speed electric train is around 4 hours and 20 minutes between Kuala Lumpur and Johor Bahru.