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Old 15th February 2007, 17:54
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The Japanese maglev reached 552 km/h on 24 Dec.1999.
By just beating it by 1, the French have demonstrated that the standard gauge railway is still the King of surface transport.
The diesel record belongs to the Spanish Talgo DMU in charge to the Infrastructure, around the 250 km/h mark.
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