The British Rail Class 43 is the world's fastest diesel train with a speed of 148 mph.
The Intercity 125 operates at a speed of 125 mph in regular service, and has an maximum speed of 148 mph making it the fastest diesel-powered train in the world, a record it has held from introduction to this present day.
7 million miles a second
The Class 58s were a British Diesel train (locomotive) built in the 1980s. There were also the class 59s but they were built overseas by GM.
The DBAG Class 612 train is a two car diesel German train with a diesel motor in service from 1998-2003. It's transmission is powered by hydraulic means.
It is called MAGLEV or Magnetic Levitation. This locomotive is capable of reaching speeds of around 365 mph which makes it the worlds fastest train. Also this train is NOT AMERICAN made.
The record for a modified Train à Grande Vitesse (TGV) reached 575 km/hour in 2007.
The fastest train of the world operates in Shanghai, China. It's called the 'Shanghai Maglev' and have a maximum operational speed of 430km/h and regularly operates at an average speed of 251km/h.
I'd imagine it would be one of the express trains on New Zealand's 3'6" railways.
No the tgv train was recorded at 574.8km/h (357 mph) and the maglev train (magnetic train) was recorded at 581km/h (361 mph) a 6.2 km/h (4 mph) differenceSource:http://www.wikipedia.org
The fastest train is the well-known magnet train.
The Transrapid (Maglev) train is the fastest in trainz 2006. The fastest train on ground on trainz 2006 is the TGV.
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