BBCNEWS Our World July 5, 2021 00:35:00
President ofjapan railways, mr sogo, started the bullet train project and i asked the company to move me to tokaido which was the bullet train line so i could be a driver. of course i remember the first time i saw it. ijust said, "wow!" and i got to drive it on one of the test journeys. i leaned forward towards the windscreen and i took the controls up to maximum, so 160 kilometres an hour. and on that test drive the train wasn't sealed properly so the window was making a noise. and then it was up to 200 kilometres an hour. there were five or six of us drivers in the cabin taking turns on the ...