A private idea and 'Shinkansen of the phantom' government-owned law prevent it at the Meiji era.

- with grand plan that it also connects between Tokyo and Osaka ahead with high-speed electric train of private railway also more than half a century when Tokaido Shinkansen opens
This "Shinkansen at the Meiji era" plan not notorious is introduced by "Men who lighten Japan" exhibition of National Science Museum in Tokyo and the field. Industrialist's spirit at the Meiji era is transmitted from the route map though it did not achieve. 　(city news department and Koichi Inoue)

Routes are about 500 kilo in the total length that lays track from present Tokaido Shinkansen in Yamagawa, and passes Mie Prefecture chiefly between Nagoya and Osaka.
At that time, it schedules between Tokyo and Osaka where it takes ten hours or more by the steam locomotive to be connected in about six hours.

5 and 6 passenger car cars are connected to one electrical locomotive car or passenger cars twice are connected in two locomotive cars, and six stations are connected with Osaka and Noda the first train of Tokyo and Shinagawa in about 80 mean time velocity kilo.

It is in businessmen' Fujiokashi to plan "Nippon Electronic railway" plan of the rapid-transit railway of the dream.
1907(1907) A famous financier became an originator in the age and the country for authorization, and the story that collected capital stocks lifted.
The Sanohiroshi Maeshima research superintendence of the same museum is stressed, "The plan was considerably a detail, and no mere idea of the mountain as the inclination was calculated, and the place of the power station was discussed whether the train was exceeded".

It graduated from the Shoutacmibe Takumibe university school, and Fujioka where the lamp producing company had been revived introduced electricity into Japan of the Meiji era period.
It paid attention to the electric railway, and the train was made to run for the first time in Japan in the exposition of Tokyo and Uenokoen in 1890.
"Person who overflowed in entrepreneurship" and Mr./Ms. Maeshima.

When all the main lines were nationalized however, the major total picture of "Shinkansen at the Meiji era" ..wanting to do.. was refused by "Railway government-owned law". Both dismissals when postmortem of Fujioka though industrialists continued the motion of the plan. Mr./Ms. Maeshima describes "The steam railway was main at that time, the train was thought at the substitution level of the horse tramway, and knowledge of one that started in the branch line in the town" and the historical background.

Ten : until November 29. Closing the museum is Monday (21-23 on Tuesday opens a library for holiday).

http://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/national/news/CK2009091902000224.html
Route map of "Nippon Electronic railway". Http://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/national/news/images/PK2009091902100122_size0.jpg inclination of geographical features is recorded in detail, and with station name that present Shinkansen such as "Matsuda" (Kanagawa Prefecture) Kameyama (Mie Prefecture) doesn't have either

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