Spanish Talgo trying to impress the lovers of Bullet trains with its peformance

Talgo is a company of Spain and it is right now in India with its high-speed train and running it on existing railway tracks at different locations - it is clocking up maximum speeds of 180kmph. The Indian Railways has conducted the second trial run for high-speed Talgo trains on the existing Palwal-Mathura section of the North-Central Railway.
This has been reported in zeenews.india.com dated 14 July 2016.

In the course of its trial run, it broke the record of the country's first semi-high speed train Gatimaan Express between Delhi and Agra which can run at a maximum speed of 160 kmph. However, the Talgo train clocked a maximum speed of 180 km per hour during the trial run. It covered the distance of 84-Km in only 38 minutes. At present, it takes more than 90 minutes to cover the distance.
Incidentally, the speed of 180 kmph attained by Talgo is the maximum reached by any train on Indian tracks. The trials were done with empty coaches and in the next phase trials will be conducted with sand bags filling the passenger sitting spaces.
Talgo is based in Madrid and is a leading manufacturer of semi-high speed (160-250 kmph) and high-speed (350 kmph) passenger trains, which are energy-efficient.


Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org

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