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'Next-generation' Shinkansen model on display

HAMAMATSU, Japan - A new Shinkansen model, the ''next-generation'' N-700 Series, on display in a press preview at the JR Tokai Hamamatsu plant in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecutre on April 10. According to JR engineers, a key N-700 technical feature is that the train, through the use of air spring, can bend at curves so that it does not have to decelerate when passing through curving passages. The N-700 Series, which will run in the Tokaido Sanyo Shinkansen line, can speed through curves at a maximum speed of 270 kilometers per hour in the Tokaido sector and 300 kph in the Sanyo sector, they say. As a result, the N-700 Series can travel between Tokyo and the Shin-Osaka station in Osaka in 2 hours and 25 minutes, down 5 minutes, and between Tokyo and the Hakata station in Fukuoka in 4 hours and 50 minutes.

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Next-generation bullet train makes 1st test run from Tokyo to Osaka

TOKYO, Japan - Amateur photographers try to take photos of the ''N-700,'' a next-generation shinkansen bullet train, as it departs from JR Tokyo Station on its first test run from Tokyo to Shin-Osaka on July 24.

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New photocatalyst material to help clean train windows

NAGOYA, Japan - An N-700 series shinkansen bullet train of Central Japan Railway Co. adopts a newly developed photocatalyst material in its windows. The company said May 2 that the material coated onto the surface of windows will decompose dirt on the glass when activated by the sun's ultraviolet rays and keeps the windows clean. The technology will help the operator of the Tokaido Shinkansen Line reduce the costs of cleaning train windows.

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New photocatalyst material to help clean train windows

NAGOYA, Japan - An N-700 series shinkansen bullet train of Central Japan Railway Co. adopts a newly developed photocatalyst material in its windows. The company said May 2 that the material coated onto the surface of windows will decompose dirt on the glass when activated by the sun's ultraviolet rays and keeps the windows clean. The technology will help the operator of the Tokaido Shinkansen Line reduce the costs of cleaning train windows. (Kyodo)

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Next-generation bullet train makes 1st test run from Tokyo to Os

TOKYO, Japan - Amateur photographers try to take photos of the ''N-700,'' a next-generation shinkansen bullet train, as it departs from JR Tokyo Station on its first test run from Tokyo to Shin-Osaka on July 24. (Kyodo)

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'Next-generation' Shinkansen model on display

HAMAMATSU, Japan - A new Shinkansen model, the ''next-generation'' N-700 Series, on display in a press preview at the JR Tokai Hamamatsu plant in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecutre on April 10. According to JR engineers, a key N-700 technical feature is that the train, through the use of air spring, can bend at curves so that it does not have to decelerate when passing through curving passages. The N-700 Series, which will run in the Tokaido Sanyo Shinkansen line, can speed through curves at a maximum speed of 270 kilometers per hour in the Tokaido sector and 300 kph in the Sanyo sector, they say. As a result, the N-700 Series can travel between Tokyo and the Shin-Osaka station in Osaka in 2 hours and 25 minutes, down 5 minutes, and between Tokyo and the Hakata station in Fukuoka in 4 hours and 50 minutes. (Kyodo)