Highest top operating speed of a commercial single-phase train

What to remember

Carrying passengers from one station to another in regular commercial service, the CR400 Fuxing Hao runs at up to 350 km/h (220 mph). That is the highest top operating speed for a single-phase train.

The detail matters because two families are kept apart. For maglev trains, the commercial benchmark is China's Shanghai Maglev Train, with a top speed of 431 km/h (268 mph). The CR400 Fuxing Hao belongs to the single-phase category.

Service speeds sit far below test records. A test vehicle derived from a commercial TGV reached 574.8 km/h on 3 April 2007. On rocket-propelled rail sleds used by the military, John Stapp travelled at 1,017 km/h on 10 December 1954, and an uncrewed sled hit 10,430 km/h on 30 April 2003 at Holloman Air Force Base.