List of railway test tracks
Railway test tracks include:
Tracks by country[]
China[]
Czech Republic[]
France[]
- Centre d'essais ferroviaires – Near Alstom Valenciennes factory site in Raismes, includes 2.75 km for testing at 100 km/h, a 1.85 km loop for endurance testing at 80 km/h, and a loop for testing driverless trains.
Germany[]
- Wegberg-Wildenrath Test and Validation Centre – Near Wildenrath in North Rhine-Westphalia. Several loops of standard gauge and metre gauge track with various electrification systems.
Italy[]
Japan[]
- Yamanashi test track – Maglev technology development for the future Chuo Shinkansen line.
- – Tōkaidō Shinkansen test track, since 1962 to 1964. From Ayase, Kanagawa to near Kamonomiya Station (Odawara, Kanagawa). About 30 km long. It was incorporated into the main line.
- MIHARA Test Center – A railway test centre used by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to test rolling stock for conventional rail (including light rail transit), automated guideway transit (especially the Mitsubishi Crystal Mover) and maglev High Speed Surface Transport.[1]
Poland[]
- Newag – manufacturer's onsite test track.[2]
- Test Track Centre near Żmigród – Operated by Railway Institute, Warsaw. 7.7 km standard gauge loop, 160 km/h maximum allowed speed.
Romania[]
- Railway Testing Center Faurei – Total length of lines: 20,2 km, maximum speed 200 km/h.
Russia[]
- Moscow Monorail – 2.8 km operational, experimental monorail line.
- ru:Экспериментальная кольцевая железная дорога ВНИИЖТ – VNIIZhT test range, a 6-kilometre-long (3.7 mi) circular test track in Shcherbinka, south of Moscow.
Singapore[]
- Integrated Train Testing Centre – future integrated testing facility for all new and existing MRT lines due to open in stages from end-2022 to 2024.
United Kingdom[]
United States[]
- Maglev – AMT Test Track, Powder Springs, Georgia
- Transportation Technology Center – Four test tracks, total length 48 miles (77 km), max speed (one of the tracks) 165 mph (266 km/h), Pueblo, Colorado[3]
References[]
- ^ "Substantial Enhancement & Utilization of "MIHARA(Multipurpose Integrated Highly-Advanced Railway Applications) Test Center"" (PDF). Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
- ^ "New test track at NEWAG". Newag. 26 November 2020.
- ^ "On-Site Track at TTCI". TTCI.
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