#Shinkansen

[fujisantoshinkansen]

[alenagerashchenko]

TOKYO, JAPAN

[vonkickass]

"Please do not squimsh the Shinkansen"

It just celebrated its 60 year in service! Saw an image of all the models side by side and thought about this

[sweetbunnytears]

[moznohayanie]

東海道新幹線に乗るとき遊べるものをつくってみました。揃えるのは結構難しいかも #東海道新幹線開業60周年

行楽の秋🍁 確かに、記憶を辿っても１列位しかできないなー

[merpmonde]

60 Years of the Tokaido Shinkansen!

On 1 October 1964, a railway line like no other opened. Connecting Tôkyô and Ôsaka, paralleling an existing main line, the Tôkaidô New Trunk Line had minimal curves, lots of bridges, zero level crossings. Striking white and blue electric multiple units, with noses shaped like bullets some would say, started zooming between the two cities as at the unheard-of speed of 210 km/h.

This was the start of the Shinkansen, inaugurating the age of high-speed rail.

The trains, with noses actually inspired by the aircraft of the time, originally didn't have a name, they were just "Shinkansen trains", as they couldn't mingle with other types anyway due to the difference in gauge between the Shinkansen (standard gauge, 1435 mm between rails) and the rest of the network (3'6" gauge, or 1067 mm between rails). The class would officially become the "0 Series" when new trains appeared in the 1980s, first the very similar 200 Series for the second new line, the Tôhoku Shinkansen, then the jet-age 100 Series. Yes, the 200 came first, as it was decided that trains heading North-East from Tôkyô would be given even first numbers, and trains heading West would have odd first numbers (0 is even, but never mind).

Hence the next new type to appear on the Tôkaidô Shinkansen was the 300 Series (second from left), designed by the privatised JR Tôkai to overcome some shortcomings of the line. Indeed, the curves on the Tôkaidô were still too pronounced to allow speeds to be increased, while all other new lines had been built ready for 300 km/h operations. But a revolution in train design allowed speeds to be raised from 220 km/h in the 80s to 285 km/h today, with lightweight construction (on the 300), active suspension (introduced on the 700 Series, left) and slight tilting (standard on the current N700 types).

Examples of five generations of train used on the Tôkaidô Shinkansen are preserved at JR Tôkai's museum, the SCMaglev & Railway Park, in Nagoya, with the N700 prototype lead car outdoors. It's striking to see how far high-speed train technology has come in Japan in 60 years. The network itself covers the country almost end-to-end, with a nearly continuous line from Kyûshû to Hokkaidô along the Pacific coast (no through trains at Tôkyô), and four branch lines inland and to the North coast, one of which recently got extended.

東海道新幹線、お誕生日おめでおう！

[my-b-side-life-aii]

東海道新幹線 N700S 藤の花 藤棚 みはらし広場 綾瀬市

富士フィルム X-H1 XF56mmF1.2R

去年とは、趣を変えて中望遠レンズで。

※近隣のそば処でランチ：そば処 名古屋の力（ちから）蕎麦※

[lvnbrg]

Shinkansen in Tokyo.

[aquayurufuwatraveler]

2024.4.27 山口　厚狭 新下関 500系こだま

5.2 福岡　博多 平日限定500系並び

[thesargasmicgoddess]

"What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of nature’s course."

[rodolfo9999]

2024年3月16日、本日開通した北陸新幹線で再び金沢にお邪魔。おでん屋黒百合で夕食。

[fujisantoshinkansen]

[niurd]

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[irishthings]

[fdbc00]

揃い踏み

揃うとなおｶｯｺﾖ

[noosphe-re]

But for all its practical importance as a connector of industrial centres and an arch logistician of human movement, the shinkansen continues to play a role as an ideological encapsulator of Japan's sense of what it is and what it should ideally strive to be. There has never been a fatal accident. Average annual lateness across the JR Central network is 1.6 minutes. When the natural world forces the shinkansen to stop, you know conditions are genuinely bad.

Leo Lewis, Sixty years of the shinkansen, FT Weekend, 28 September/29 September 2024