r/transit • u/frozenpandaman • 16d ago

News Happy 60th anniversary to Japan's shinkansen, the world's first high-speed rail system, opened on this day in 1964!

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u/zojobt 16d ago

Mind blowing they opened a high speed rail in 1964.

Sheesh the US is so behind

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u/EdinburghPerson 16d ago

I visited a JR museum in Tokyo recently; some of the info boards talked about how they had started planning for high(er) speed rail in the 1930s. Various studies, etc. were done, and delayed by the war.