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Japan celebrates the birth of high-speed rail: forty years ago this month, Japan opened the world's first dedicated high-speed railway, signalling a new start for railways worldwide.(Shinkansen Anniversary)
International Railway Journal
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October 1, 2004|
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Japan did much more than encourage the growth of its own economy when it opened the 515km standard-gauge Tokaido Shinkansen high-speed railway between Tokyo and Osaka just prior to the 18th Olympic Games in Tokyo in October 1964.
It opened a completely new era in transport with a radically different railway, and in so doing, performed an invaluable service to the entire railway world by triggering a global boom in high-speed rail and injecting new life and restoring self-respect to an industry in decline. And all, in the money of the day, at a cost of about $US 1 ...
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