N700 Series Shinkansen

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N700 Series Shinkansen
N700 Series Shinkansen.
Initial acceleration	2.6 km/h/s
Top speed (service)	270 (Tokaido) /300 (Sanyo) km/h
Gauge	1435 mm
Voltage	25000V 60Hz AC

The N700 Series Shinkansen is a high-speed train with tilting capability being developed jointly by JR Central and JR West for use on the Tōkaidō and Sanyō Shinkansen lines. The prototype 16-car train was delivered in Spring 2005 for extensive testing. Full-production trains will have a maximum speed of 300 km/h, and tilting of up to one degree will allow the trains to maintain 270 km/h even on 2,500 m radius curves.

The point of the N700 is not that it can go faster, but that it can go full speed (or close to full speed) over more of the track than the previous trains could.

The N700 trains will enter passenger service on Nozomi services starting in the summer of 2007. It is projected that by 2009, all Nozomi through runs will be operated exclusively by the N700.

[edit] References

• "N700 Series", Dave Fossett, byunbyun Shinkansen.

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