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The death toll from Typhoon Hagibis, the 19th to hit Japan this year, has risen to 74. Thousands of residents remain without power or water after the powerful wind struck eastern and central Japan last week Saturday.

Floodings caused by the Typhoon has also drowned ten 12 car bullet trains operated by Japan Railway Co. The typhoon brought torrential rain which triggered the overflow of a nearby Chikuma River.

All the 120 cars on the ten bullet trains were damaged by the flood. Two of these trains were also derailed, with one being swept 10 to 15 meters from its original position.

The figure is around one-third of all the trains used on the Hokuriku Shinkansen Line. The line connects Tokyo and Kanazawa in central Japan.

Services are expected to be fully restored in a weeks time. To resume the line, Railway operator, East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) will utilize backup bullet trains to restore 80 percent of the normal timetable by Oct. 25.

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The affected trains will be scrapped despite the undercarriage waterproof features. The operators fears the trains will not run safely after being submerged for a long period.

According to a railway systems specialist, the affected cars

“May have suffered fatal damage to their core parts including motor speed control inverters.”

“It would take less time to produce new cars than to replace all damaged parts”

Each of these totally submerged bullet trains cost an estimated 3.3 billion yen ( $30 million or about ₦10.8 billion) brand new.

Japan’s world-renowned high speed  Shinkansen trains are rarely late. Each of these bullet-trains departs Tokyo Station every few minutes for Osaka and other destinations. The lines are viable alternative to air travel.

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amechi no see this type of trains buy na 1989 Chinese train

godofuck231:
amechi no see this type of trains buy na 1989 Chinese train

lol

C bullet train unlike a country dey may budget 100trillion for same yet wouldn't c it but love patronizing refurbished things

The death toll from Typhoon Hagibis, the 19th to hit Japan this year, has risen to 74.

Quite a high death toll considering Japan’s technological advancement.

RIP to the dead.

Awww. What a disaster.
I know in a short time, they will recover from it.

They even have back up trains that will begin operations on the 25th.

Nawa

Japan is just one quiet high technology country

Even with the natural disaster this countries are suffering. Still they stand tall. Unlike a country where there is no recorded disaster, but their leaders are the only known disaster

if to say na naija this thing happen now, e for take 2 years to restore normalcy back and one funny minister go come institute panel of inquiry..lol

godofuck231:
amechi no see this type of trains buy na 1989 Chinese train

You no want make he chop inside

Good development for Africa.


Tokunbo trains available. Contact me for more details.

Water damage can easily be fixed..... unlike fire.

Nigeria can buy these trains cheap na, Japan will survive trust me.

godofuck231:
amechi no see this type of trains buy na 1989 Chinese train

Buy these and they will be scrapped after the first rainfall in Lagos...
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108 billion naira is chicken change to Japan. They are more concerned about the lives lost.

godofuck231:
amechi no see this type of trains buy na 1989 Chinese train

How much is Nigeria's total budget and revenue to spend N108 billion on 12 trains.

Well, God can't even give us these natural problems alongside the ones we have in Nigeria currently

“It would take less time to produce new cars than to replace all damaged parts”...See levels!

godofuck231:
amechi no see this type of trains buy na 1989 Chinese train

A high speed train costs a lot of money to maintain and to run

Add the fact that the railway lines these trains use are not the type of railway lines you are thinking of, they use a special kind of railway line that enables the train to run via a magnetic force.(It cost $10.6 bn to build 150 km of track.).

Plus it costs $130(47000 NAIRA) to ride one of these trains for seven days in Japan. If we brought the train to Nigeria...the maintenance costs would eat our transport budget , and would force Nigerian Railways Corp to charge the average Nigerian HIGH PRICES.

Annual mainatenace costs could reach as high as $7,656,826,360 (7.7bn dollars)....

Our transport budget for this year...not up to N300bn naira (less than 1bn dollars).

Amaechi is doing the best with what he has.

PoliticalWitch:


A high speed train costs a lot of money to maintain and to run

Add the fact that the railway lines these trains use are not the type of railway lines you are thinking of, they use a special kind of railway line that enables the train to run via a magnetic force.

Plus it

With the money i'm hearing flying around this country, we are capable.

Nigeria shd liaise with Japanese govt to get at least one of those trains for free and use it to train and develop our engineers in that field. To use it to learn

Just a random tot tho.

Abeg make dem dash us the one rain destroy for us to repair am

Make naija dey use am

My saying though

Dear Nairalanders, if you want to see these trains in Nigeria, I advice you to visit Ladipo in 2weeks time.

NB: You may not be able to see the Train as a whole because of space, but trust me, you'll be able to buy the parts and assemble them by yourself.

Signed
Ladipo market chairman

Damn it!

That is some colossal destruction.

Nooooooooo oooo! We lucky here sha.