Wenzhou Accident Report Not Yet Available, Higher Speed Train Is Proposed(chinaforbiddennews) 29th December 2011

Anchor: While the investigation report of the Wenzhou high
speed railway collision involving 40 deaths is not yet available,
the Chinese media is highly publicizing the "completed rail
tests at speeds over 500 km per hour."
The industry said that a 500 km per hour speed is stale news,
and yet, the Communist Party is deliberately speculating completion by the end of the year.
The manufacturer also indicated that operation at such a
high speed is not necessary.

Chinese officials have yet to provide an investigation report for
this July Wenzhou railway accident that killed 40 and injured 200.
The Chinese media reported China High-Speed Rail will be
testing a train at a higher speed.
Xinhua News Agency reported on the 26th that "China South
Sifang Locomotive & Rolling Stock Co." has built a test train at more than 500 km per hour.

A Railway engineer believed that a train test at 500 km per
hour is not really news.

Railway engineer Mr. Chan: "In fact a train that runs at close
to 400 or even around 500 km has been done before, everyone at the test run line knows this.
That instantaneous velocity under very good railway conditions
is absolutely possible.
It is a measurement done as an indicator during a test run.

It does not prove anything, but then, in terms of publicity,
it's used as a tonic, a remedy to make up for the past accident."

In fact, France has developed a train at speed of 574.8 km per
hour which has not been put into the field.
Japan's Bullet Train, and German ICE have all been tested
at 500 km; the actual operation speed, however, has been kept below 300 km per hour.

Railway engineer Mr. Chan: "The claim 'the world's leading
software technology' is absolutely impossible.
We are still working on these things with equipment bought
from foreign countries, or
by supporting a number of other domestic companies
with core component purchased from overseas,
and then we come up with other minor parts of a system
assembled by ourselves, and claim that we are ahead of the rest; it is simply impossible.
In terms of domestic technique, the train control technology is
one of the weakest."

Mainland netizens have posted "Show the high-speed rail
accident report first", "300 km per hour is already a problem,
who would take the one with speed of 500?" and other
messages with a similar theme.

Upon learning that the Governor of Calif. was coming to visit,
Former professor of Urban Mass Transit Research Institute,
Central South University Wang Chengli: "This type of car - better not take it, there's no security.
You see that there's still no conclusion for the Wenzhou accident.
Just try to cover some real issues."

While Wenzhou accident investigation report is yet to be
released, Chinese Minister of Railways, Sheng Guangzu,
brought up the 400 billion yuan railway construction funds
during the national railway work conference on the 23rd.

Railway engineer Mr. Chan: "Although they dare not publish
this accident report, the minister's talk has pretty much revealed the cause.
He recognized that in the construction process the setting was
too high, and the time was severely shortened,
so to say, he has recognized the train run was permitted to run blind.
That is, many tests might have been bypassed and omitted."

China South Sifang Locomotive Chairman Zhao Xiaogang
told the Beijing Morning Post that China's train will not necessarily run at 500 km per hour.
He told Beijing News that operation at such high speeds
is not needed.

This makes people wonder why, under the condition
when the safety issue is absolutely unknown,
the officials would engage in such substantial investment
in this technology.

NTD reporters Chang Chun, Shang Yan and Guo Jing.


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