Birth of the Shinkansen: The Origin Story of the by Tetsuo Shimomae PAPERBACK

Birth of the Shinkansen: The Origin Story of the World-First Bullet Train\nby Tetsuo Shimomae\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Tetsuo Shimomae\nTitle: Birth of the Shinkansen: The Origin Story of the World-First Bullet Train\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Railway technology, engineering and trades\nPublisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore\nPublication year: 2023\nEdition: 1st ed. 2022\nISBN-13: 9789811665400\nISBN-10: 9811665400\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThis book discusses the Shinkansen, the world's first high-speed railway, which was born in Japan in 1964 and how it has developed up to the present day. In the 1950s, some European railways were trying to increase the commercial operating speed up to 160 km/h, and it was considered difficult to raise it to 200 km/h. J.