London City Airport Shut as WW2 Bomb Found in Thames

Re:London City Airport Shut as WW2 Bomb Found in Thames by user5994461 on Monday February 12, 2018 @10:59AM (#16359451)

It's the highest speed trains. There is a speed meter on one side of the carriage. The cruise speed is beyond 300 km/h.

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Re:London City Airport Shut as WW2 Bomb Found in Thames by ghaff on Monday February 12, 2018 @11:58AM (#16359931)

Yes. But that's not the average given stops etc.

Even with a train service like the Shinkansen, getting from Tokyo to, say, Hiroshima is over a 5 hour train ride for a distance of a bit under 1,000 km.

I like taking trains in Europe and Japan but there's an upper distance limit for when they make utilitarian sense. (For London to Brussels or Paris though, it's hard to imagine why I'd want to fly even if it were a little cheaper.)

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