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Train Recognition Guide Super High Speed Main S.H.S. Train Families TGVs Velaro & ICE High Speed Train Families Pendolino High Speed Records Page Manufacturers Pics of the Month 2009-11 Pics of the Month 2007-8 Unusual RR Pics Gallery RR Snow Fighting Gallery	Railroads Serving Mining Industry in Finland Railroads provide often the only viable means of transportation for huge mining operations. In Finland this combination is currently in the process of being reinvented with the new advent of the mushrooming mining industry. /// Everything under construction down from here				Created for 4rail.net by John McKey. Pictures by Andreas Ehnberg, Hannu Peltola, Stanislav Voronin, Ilkka and Sanna Siissalo, Nick Slocombe, Gerard J. Putz and John McKey.


		High Speed Train Families Train families like ICE, Velaro, Shinkansen, TGV, CRH, Pendolino, Zefiro, AGV, etc. form a formidable fleet of super high speed and high speed fleet of several thousand train units. Before taking a look at each of them read the short description of each of these. The Most Common High Speed Train Families...
		High Speed Service Providers Take a quick look at the companies running the super high speed and high speed traffic. Outside the traditional national companies there are already a handful of companies which are competing, although the new companies most often are also owned by the same giants. Look at the High Speed Services...
		Tilting High Speed Trains Tilting high speed train fill in a niche market on the high speed train on the conventional track, where super high speed is not possible because of the economical reasons or lower volumes than would be needed to build the real high speed line. The slight tilt is useful especially on the well maintained but curvy track which can be found most anywhere in Europe. Tilting Train Types Page...
		High Speed Lines Most high speed trains need special high speed lines to operate efeectively. Initailly these were just smaller streches on the heavily trafficked lines, but in the recent years these have started forming international networks of high speed and super high speed trains.
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Most Common High Speed Train Families
	Velaro / ICE3 The Velaro / ICE family of Siemens AG is the best seller for today's super high speed trains. Half of the population of the Central European nations can travel these trains today. Velaro EMUs have been taken into use around the world, even in China and Russia. In the picture is the newest member of the now large fleet of Velaro trains, the class 407 of the Deutsche Bahn. This class of trains are currently in the testing phase and every nuance is being perfected before their use in the international fleet of the DB. Probable destinations will be between France, UK and the German larger cities, where the trains will compete with airlines. TGVs The French TGV was for long synonymous for the super high speed travels on the rails. These were the first trains to use almost 300 km/h speeds in normal everyday traffic in a large scale. Even today the large fleet of over 500 TGV trains keeps the France moving and the newer trains have evolved significantly from the beginnings in the early 1980s. More on TGV Super High Speed Trains Page...

	Pendolino Pendolino is widespread because it was one of the first high speed train families marketed for normal rail, that is no need to build a high speed line t run a high speed train. This easy start approach has been immensely popular in Europe, although you can find Pendolinos in China too. More on Pendolino High Speed Trains Page...
	ICx The early high speed train designs like ICE1 or the TGV-PSE were state of the art 30 years ago. But since the fast development in the area has led to significant improvements and now there is a road map for the TGV-PSE, ICE1 and ICE2 for retirement. As usual the well working system has also meant the need for increased capacity and a creation of a new sub high speed class. The first ICx trains will be built by Siemens for this capacity need and the later units for the replacement of the ICE1 and ICE2 units. While not quite as fast as the ICE1/2, the operator DB has found out that most of the time the very top speed is not used even today. And for the higher speeds the Deutsche Bahn can always offer their Velaros / ICE3's.
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High Speed Service Providers
	Deutsche Bahn of Germany Deutsche Bahn branded its high speed services as ICE, Inter City Express, in the 1990s. This has remained so until now and numerous trains like the one on the left have these famous three letters painted on them. The ICE concept has been a real success story, both at home in Germany and in the neighboring countries, some of which are daily served by the DB. The ICE is also used by the DB cooperation companies like NS in Netherlands and Belgian railways, which own some of the ICE3 class 406 trains. DB's high speed operations rely much on the ICE1, ICE2, ICE3 and Velaro trains, the newest addition being the class 407 Velaro of Siemens added to the family to increase the capacity.
	Eurostar International Ltd. Eurostar offers trains with its name between London, U.K. and destinations on the Continental Europe, Paris, Lille, Brussels and ski holiday towns on the Alps. The company traffics two kinds of U.K. and Channel Tunnel regulations adapted TGVs, and in the near future also Velaro-UK models dubbed as Eurostar 320i. These will run faster than the first generation of trains and reach destinations beyond the ones trafficked now with the TGVs. Most likely plans target for Amsterdam and German larger cities in the West. The Eurostar terminal in London is a St Pancras magnificent building in the Northern side of London. In Paris the surroundings are offered by equally impressive and historic Paris Gare du Nord, the Northern Station.
	RzD of Russia High Speed railwyas are often among other factors a prestige project for any developed country, even more so in the country that is trying hard to develop and evolve to more modern society like Russia today. The state operator RzD has several types of high speed trains in its use. We will create an article on these plus add some background to enlighten the campaign that has been going on for decades ever since the Soviet period. Most visible high speed train types are the Velaro-Rus "Sapsans" (class Ers1) and "Allegro" Pendolinos, co-owned with the VR of Finland. Russia also has numerous semihigspeed trains.
	Railjet of Austria In the late 1990s ÖBB, the Austrian Railways, saw huge markets opening to its immediate neighborhood. It decided to invest into new rolling stock and create as effective fleet as possible. This meant in many cases using as few types of rolling stock as possible. ÖBB ordered large quantities of true multiuse Taurus (ES64U2) locomotives and for the use in passenger rail matching coach sets with driving trailers. Coupled semipermanently with the Taurus locomotive they together form virtual EMUs with top speed of 230 km/h! What an ingenious invention of Siemens and ÖBB! Although the market did not necome reality and the sets have had slow start, the passenger numbers are slowly growing and Railjets are used today in high speed traffic to neigboring countires, not just within their home turf Austria.
	Southeastern
	Virgin Trains
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