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Old Jan 5, 2007, 15:03   #1
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Thumbs up Japanese exported shinkansen finally running in Taiwan!

Sorry, I don't have an English article off hand, but this has been on my mind for a while now.

The first export of Japanese bullet train technology has been basically completed, as the Taiwan Shinkansen has officially opened! There are some concerns about safety, especially seeing as the tracks and supporting systems where originally designed for the European version of bullet trains, and there is a shortage of train engineers, but I am very excited about it finally opening! I can't wait to ride it next time I visit!
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台湾新幹線が開業 日本の技術初輸出、欧式と混合
2007年01月05日14時12分

 日本の新幹線システムが初めて海外に輸出された台湾 高速鉄道(台湾新幹線)が5日、開業した。台湾の南北 の2大都市、台北と高雄間(345キロ)を最短90分 で結ぶ高速列車の誕生を台湾メディアは「交通新紀元」 と位置づけて、一番列車に乗り込む人たちを大きく取り あげている。だが、日本の新幹線が誇る「開業以来、鉄 道事故による乗客の死傷者ゼロ」(JR東海)という実績も引き継ぐことができるか 、台湾内には一抹の不安もあるようだ。
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台湾新幹線
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台北・板橋駅を出発する台湾新幹線の一番列車

 12両編成(定員約980人)の一番列車は5日午前 7時(日本時間同8時)、台北郊外の板橋駅を出発した 。白とオレンジのツートンカラーに黒い1本線が走る車両は「のぞみ」700系を改良し た700T型。だが運転士の大半はフランスの高速鉄道TGVを運転していたフランス人だ。台湾人運転士の養成が開業時点では間に合わず、事業主体の台湾高 速鉄道(台湾高鉄)が昨年5月に急きょ雇用した。一番 列車の運転台に立ったパトリック・プルナーさんもフランスから。「少し戸惑ったけど、いまはすっ かり慣れました。TGVより新幹線の運転席の方がずっと静かです」と語った。

 台湾で90年代初めから計画された高速鉄道計画は、 当初はフランス、ドイツの欧州連合が受注するとみられ ていた。99年に大地震に遭った台湾側が「地震にも強 い日本の新幹線」を採用。逆転受注での初輸出となったが、通信や信号、ポイントなど 随所に欧州式のシステムが残る。

 このため台湾メディアは「日欧混合システム」の安全 性に疑問を投げかける。開業が3回延期されたこともあ って、大手テレビ局TVBSの調査によれば74%が「 安全運転が心配」と答えている。

 台湾高鉄はこうした不安や疑念をはらすためにも、5 日から19日までは通常の半額料金でサービスする。1日に88往復の運行を目標としているが、 運転士不足もあって開業当初は19往復。およそ1時間に1 本の発車となる。最終駅の台北駅からの発着は早くて2 月半ばの旧正月からになる見込み。
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Old Jan 8, 2007, 03:08   #2
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Taiwanese shinkansen

Yeah, I saw this story on Thursday's version of the bbc news website. Here's the link. Looks a good train. 4hrs to 90minutes, that's some going.
Oh, I can't post URLs to third party websites yet. Well, go to the bbc which would be at dotcodotuk and look at asia/pacific on January 4th

or rather, click on Taiwan in the "choose a country" field it'll be there for a while yet.

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Here's another link for the story.

It's certainly an international affair!

Drivers of the Japanese bullet trains will be French or German, but they will only be allowed to speak English to Taiwanese traffic controllers who oversee tracks designed by British and French engineers.
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Drivers of the Japanese bullet trains will be French or German, but they will only be allowed to speak English to Taiwanese traffic controllers who oversee tracks designed by British and French engineers.
Was it a French, and/or German design. Aren't these Japanese bullet train ?


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YEAH! my mom recently went on it; it supposedly only takes abt 3 hrs to get from taipei to kaohsiung, not exactly sure how they do it, but it's really cool.
only one bad thing about it- it goes so fast that there are bloodstains found on the outside...................................... don't worry, they're not human bloodstains, just innocent birds who happened to pass the train
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My taiwanese friend told me about it. She said the ride was awesome!
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