one hundred and sixty kilometers an hour through the Channel Tunnel is fast, but the fastest speed reached by a train was 581 kilometers an hour. A train in Japan did this in 2003
In Hong Kong, when you go by train from the airport to the city centre, you travel through 8 kilometers of tunnels, including one tunnel under the water of Victoria Harbour. You also travel over a number of bridges, including the spectacular tsing Ma Bridge. It is one of the longest bridges in the world, at 1,377 metres. The entire 34- kilometers journey takes just twenty-three minutes