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This is the latest super train to go into service, remember the saying "As far back as the Chinese" ?.

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Where do the wings fit, it looks like an airliner.

Thats the train we want on the North London line

Mrs BB says: Yuck! It's almost obscene.

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Nice try but not quite go back to the drawing board guy's

Leave the Railways to us guy's we invented e'm

To be honest, it looks ghastly to my eyes.

hq1hitchin wrote:To be honest, it looks ghastly to my eyes.

The Chinese railways have just had a BIG BANG UP i believe due to there signalling system?

Wots the betting that this british government buys the same Chinese signalling system?

You just know it

The seating looks nice and comfy, but the design of the engine is, to be blunt, fugly. All in the eye of the beholder, I suppose.

Is it a Hong Kong/Chineese HST? it looks like a Japanese E5 Series Shinkansen to me in JR colours. A photo you post showing it in the station with the chap saluting it, has an advert for Japanese railways (JR) to the side of him.

I noticed it looked Japanese but the e mail enclosures stated Hong Kong.

The third picture - of the cab - the windows remind me of 'monster's eyes' in a cartoon...

(Second thought: Did an elephant sit on [the middle bit]? - I know, wrong part of Asia...but perhaps one escaped from a zoo?)

Not bad, but not as nice as the JR's Shinkansen trains.

Still doesn't beat the old GWR streamliner in fugly.

his is the latest super train to go into service, remember the saying "As far back as the Chinese" ?.

Sorry people. Hate to disappoint, but those photos are from Japan. Definitely from Japan. I speak read and write Japanese and those photos show the latest Japanese shinkansen. NOT CHINA. Somebody is having you on.

Malcolm