The Japanese Prime Minister inaugurated Indian counterpart 
Narendra Modi‘s ambitious bullet train project in Ahmedabad on September 14. The project is expected to be completed by 2022.
India’s first bullet train is to be run between Ahmedabad and Mumbai.
As Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Prime Minister Narendra Modi launch work on India’s first bullet train, here are some fun facts and forgotten history to celebrate the occasion.
ALWAYS MUMBAI
Is it a coincidence? India seems to launch high-speed trains from Mumbai.If a few pages from history are flipped again, then these are a few high-speed trains launched from Mumbai:
1853
India’s first passenger train ran from Bombay (Mumbai) to Thane on April 16.
India’s first passenger train ran from Bombay to Thane
1925
The first electric train ran was inaugurated from Bombay VT and Kurla Harbour on February 3.
The first electric train ran was inaugurated from Bombay VT and Kurla Harbour
2017
Tejas which is India’s first high-speed train (124 mph) took off from Mumbai for Goa in May.
India’s first high-speed train Tejas
3 TRAINS THAT ARE FASTER THAN THE BULLET
SHANGHAI MAGLEV
The speed of the train is 267 mph and it runs from Shanghai. Technology behind the train is Magnetic Levitation Technology and the train debuted in 2004, in China.
Shanghai Maglev
HARMONY CRH380A
The speed of the train is 236 mph and it runs from Shanghai. Technology that has gone behind the train is Electro Pneumatic Compound Brake Mode and the train debuted in 2010, in China.
Harmony CRH380A
TRENITALIA FRECCIAROSSA 1000 OR THE “RED ARROW”
The speed of the train is 220 mph and it runs from Turin. Technology behind the train is the16 powerful engines distributed on all the coaches and the train debuted in 2015, in Italy.
THE FIRST BULLET TRAIN
It was “like flying in the sky”.
On October 1, 1964, when the gleaming white Bullet Train, with a blue stripe running through its length, was launched in Japan, linking Tokyo and Osaka, newspapers called it “Yume no chotokkyu,” literally, the “super-express of dreams”.
The birth of the Bullet wasn’t easy. In the wake of the devastation of World War II, the team building it faced fierce public opposition. They were dubbed “the crazy gang” as they worked despite intense difficulties- technical snags as well as an out-of-control budget.
But soon it became a symbol of the now unparalleled technological heights that Japan has reached.
The first Shinkansen line originated from Tokyo and passed Mount Fuji to end in Osaka.
Shinkansen
The Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train will also be based on the Shinkansen super speed trains of Japan.
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