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Total pages original book: 192
Includes a PDF summary of 23 pages
Duration of the summary (audio): 18M3S (4.6 MB)
Description or summary of the audiobook: This is a comprehensive history of high speed trains beginning with Japanese bullet trains of 1960s and including the French development of TGVs. The book covers not just the trains but the problems and solutions for the lines on which they run. It looks at European adoption of high speed trains now an accepted alternative to shorter distance air travel and covers the early history of fast trains, the technical aspects of the fast trains leading up to and including the latest Chinese locomotives.
Other categories, genre or collection: Trains & Railways, Transport Industries