Take Your Seats on the World’s Longest High-Speed Railway

Anyone who has had to suffer the depressing quality of service and transportation on the UK's Easy Coast line (or any other British railway line for that matter) can be forgiven for weeping when they see this video.

At the start of 2013 China completed the world's longest high-speed rail, linking Beijing to Guangzhou. A journey time that previously took over 22 hours has been reduced to just eight hours.

The line from Beijing to Guangzhou is just part of a stunning programme of infrastructure investment in high-speed rail in China. The current programme (which started in 2007) has China aiming to complete 10,000 miles of high-speed rail connecting all of China's major cities by 2020. The total investment is over $300bn which puts the UK's proposed investment into HS2 into some perspective!