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Humble beginnings in a post-war Japan
After their defeat by the allies in 1945, Japan found herself in a tough spot. Tokyo had been reduced to rubble and the economy had taken a massive beating. Social and economic revitalisation was underway from the late 1940s and 1950s in an effort to restore the livelihoods of Japan’s population. In 1958, to showcase and celebrate her progress, Japan announced that Tokyo would host the Olympics in 1964. However, there was one slight issue: traffic. With money being spent sparingly on rebuilding houses and industry, the government strayed away from investing heavily into the kinds of roadways and automobile infrastructure that was dominating the western world. The complex mountainous geography also made building intercity motorways ludicrously expensive and difficult. With Tokyo and Osaka, Japan’s two largest cities by population at the time, experiencing record-high traffic congestion due to the dense city development, the government sought alternative methods of transport. Enter the Shinkansen.
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19th – 20th century: From the birth of the railways to HSR Because the rail mode is a guided and low grip transportation system, the history of the railway is an endless history of speed. Since the…
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In 1959, the Japanese government had committed ¥200,00,000 (US$1.3B) to the Tōkaidō Shinkansen, an entirely new 515 km (320 miles) railway running from Tokyo to Osaka.
Hideo Shima, the project’s chief engineer, and Shinji Sogō, the president of Japan’s national railways, had a tall order to fulfil. The ambitious plan called for the creation and innovation of trains that could comfortably run faster than 200 km/h (125 mph) and reduce journey times between the two cities by more than 50%.
At the time, many local and international spectators saw the project as pointless. The West had committed to funding motorways and airport expansions, convinced that the humble train had been made obsolete. To prove them wrong, engineers reimagined what a train and railway was in numerous ways:
- Tunnelling through 108 km (67.11 mi) of mountains to avoid sharp curves and maximise speed
- Eliminating the use of locomotives – distributing power to all wheels to avoid rail degradation
- Using automated train control (ATC) signalling to increase reliability, safety, and frequency
- Using lightweight materials and an aerodynamic design
- Switching from the Japanese narrow gauge to the wider international standard gauge tracks for stability
