Talk:500 Series Shinkansen

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This article is one of thousands on Wikipedia that have a link to YouTube in it. Based on the External links policy, most of these should probably be removed. I'm putting this message here, on this talk page, to request the regular editors take a look at the link and make sure it doesn't violate policy. In short: 1. 99% of the time YouTube should not be used as a source. 2. We must not link to material that violates someones copyright. If you are not sure if the link on this article should be removed, feel free to ask me on my talk page and I'll review it personally. Thanks. ---J.S (t|c) 07:00, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Link to designers page
Is there any reason why there's a link to this designer page beneath the text. Looks more like a commercial than anything else. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.130.103.35 (talk • contribs) 23:54, 3 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Removed that link. It is true that the futuristic design has been very popular in Japan, but the article should probably elaborate more on the topic and cite independent sources, not just giving a link to the top page of a designer studio.183.76.106.171 (talk) 15:02, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Sorry
My mistake about the acceleration. Sorry. --UrsusArctosL71 (talk) 14:18, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

why so slow?
The article states that the trains are designed to travel at 320 km/h, yet only operate at a maximum speed of 285 km/h, without explaining why this is so. I suggest the addition of this information to the article. HansNZL (talk) 03:14, 29 March 2011 (UTC)


 * The 500 series operated at 300 km/h for 13 years (1997-2010), keeping the record of the fastest train in Japan (and also the Guiness record for highest average operating speed in the world at that time, if I am not mistaken). Being heavily used at high speeds every day for more than a decade, the 500 series cars are now on the latter half of their life-cylce. Betweeen 2008 and 2010, they were finally replaced by the N700 series on the fastest Nozomi trains. After their retirement from the Nozomi service, 8 of the 9 trainsets were shortened from 16 cars to 8 cars and refurbished to meet the needs of the lower-speed second-grade Kodama service (helping increase the speed of the Kodama service from 220 km/h to 285 km/h). On the Japanese Tokaido-Sanyo Shinkansen lines, it is typical that most trainsets operate on the first-grade Nozomi service for about 10 years, after which they are replaced and retired to the slower Kodama service, to be finally scraped after a total of 13-22 years since their production.


 * The reason why the original 320 km/h design speed was not achieved in everyday operations was mainly a change in safety regulations following the 1995 Kobe earthquake, which heavily hit the Sanyo Shinkansen line. The 500 series were already on the production lines, and it was not deemed cost-effective to try to meet the new regulations. After the 500 series, the operating company, JR-West, ceased to persue higher speeds, and focused instead on improving service frequency and lowering costs, so they did not design a faster model Shinkansen. The newer 700 series had a speed limit of 285 km/h, and the N700 series that followed, even though operating at 300 km/h on the same time-schedule as formerly did the 500 series, still have lower performance than the 500 series at speeds above 300 km/h during test runs. Note that this is not to say that the newest N700 perform bad, it is just that the 500 were designed too fast for the requirements of their operating environment.183.76.106.171 (talk) 07:31, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

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Huge gap in "Formation" section
In the "Formation" section of the article, there appears to be a huge gap. I'm new to wikipedia so I don't know how to fix it but it would be nice if someone could fix the huge gap. Thanks. Leosami67 (talk) 18:42, 18 April 2023 (UTC)