Infrastructure

Three Shinkansen extensions approved

By 2012-07-19T13:35:00

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JAPAN: Three more extensions to the country's expanding high speed rail network have been authorised for construction by the government, under a programme which includes the first commercial application of gauge-changing trainsets which have been under development for the past decade.

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