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No. 00382

Fastest Manned Railway Vehicle

Holder
SCMAGLEV Series L0 (Central Japan Railway Company)
Country
Japan
Date
21 April 2015
Location
Japan

About this record

On 21 April 2015, on the Yamanashi Maglev Test Line in Japan, JR Central's superconducting maglev SCMAGLEV Series L0 reached 603 km/h, the world speed record for a manned railway vehicle, included by GBR in its World Record Registry.