Yes, you heard me right. The Chinese bullet trains, the D types, are so fast that the journey that takes a normal-speed train more than 15 hours takes just 4h 48mins.

The Chinese Fuxing bullet train’s speed of 350 km/hr or (217mph) will travel from Beijing to Shanghai ,a distance of 1,318km’s (819 miles) in 4 hours and 24 minutes.

When you put that in Nigeria’s perspective, a journey from Lagos to Abuja (through Sagamu-Benin expressway) ,a distance of 755.4 km and back (making 1510.8km) will take about 5hrs with the bullet train.

Lagos to Abuja through Sagamu-Benin expressway takes 10h 47mins and back totals 21h 34mins.(minus the bad roads and holdup)

China has the world’s longest high-speed rail network making travel around China more convenient and effective.