There was major disruption to air travel and bullet train services.
The first train was struck by lightning and lost power, and was then hit from behind by another bullet train, Xinhua said.
China will produce the world's fastest bullet train running at 380 KPH for the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway.
The white bullet train whooshed out of the station, its blue pinstripe a blur as it sliced across the Chinese countryside at more than 200 miles an hour.
I have travelled by the bullet train Shanghai to Suzhou, 120 KMS distance in about 25 mins and trains hitting speeds of 275 KMPH. Missing China!
China will produce the world's fastest bullet train running at 380 KPH for the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway, a senior railway official has said.
The train crash involving two of China's new bullet trains has made front page headlines around the world – and not just because of the loss of life involved.
Japanese television reported that bullet trains had been halted.
Beginning this month, more bullet trains in China will slow down to increase safety.
Stricken roads, bullet trains and factories have returned to normal with astonishing speed.
That's what would have happened in Japan, where bullet trains have operated for half a century with zero fatalities.
The repackaging of the Shinkansen bullet trains as "domestically produced" appears to reflect in part official nervousness about public opposition to government purchases from Japan.
As the radiation has risen they have taken bullet trains to Osaka, in western Japan, and flights out of the country, quietly supported by their firms and embassies.
NO TRANSPORT accident has caused such an outcry in China as did the collision on July 23rd of two bullet trains, in which at least 39 people died.
Russia, which has so far taken delivery of eight Sapsans and plans to order a further 8 this year, has no plans to build bullet trains from scratch.
