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bullet train

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A bullet train is a very fast streamlined passenger train. Take the bullet train.

The Japanese network opened in 1964 and has never had a fatal accident from a derailment or collision. A bullet train needs its own track, which is most of what makes it expensive.

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Definitions of bullet train

  1. 1nounbullet trainA very fast streamlined passenger train.B1

    “The bullet train covered five hundred kilometres in two hours.”

bullet train is a train.

Where it comes from

A translation of the Japanese name dangan ressha, meaning bullet train, used before the line opened.

Japanese - 弾%丸 列%車.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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