En el verano de 1997 entró en servicio comercial el tren Euromed, un tren de alta velocidad de ancho ibérico, que cubre la línea entre Barcelona y Alicante pasando por Tarragona, Castellón de la Plana y Valencia. Al Euromed se le sumaría en 1999 el Alaris, circulando entre Madrid y Valencia vía Albacete a una velocidad máxima de 200 km/h.

Primeras patentes. Se han otorgado patentes de transportes de alta velocidad a varios inventores en diversas partes del mundo: Hermann Kemper [5] Las primeras patentes de Estados Unidos para un tren propulsado por un motor lineal fueron otorgadas al inventor Alfred Zehden ().El inventor obtendría las patentes US patent (782312) (21 de junio de 1902) y la US patent …

Bullet train may refer to: . Rail. Shinkansen high-speed trains of Japan, nicknamed for their appearance and speed; Other high-speed trains of a similar appearance to Japanese trains; Caribou (train), a passenger train formerly used in Newfoundland and colloquially referred to as The Newfie Bullet Bullet, a former passenger train of the Central Railroad of New Jersey

Higher-speed rail (HrSR), also known as high-performance rail, higher-performance rail, semi-high-speed rail or almost-high-speed rail, is the jargon used to describe inter-city passenger rail services that have top speeds of more than conventional rail but are not high enough to be called high-speed rail services. The term is also used by planners to identify the incremental rail …