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posted by martyb on Tuesday July 20 2021, @07:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the getting-there-before-you-leave dept.

World's first 600km/h high-speed maglev train to make public debut in Qingdao:

The world's first high-speed maglev transportation system running at a speed of 600 kilometers per hour [(372 mph)] will make its public debut in Qingdao, East China's Shandong Province, on Tuesday.

As the fastest ground vehicle available so far, the system, self-developed by China, is a cutting-edge scientific and technological achievement in the field of rail transit in the world, said China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC) Qingdao Sifang Co., LTD., an industrialization base for manufacturing high-speed trains in China.

The high speed maglev train will be suspended, driven and guided without contact between the train and the track by means of electromagnetic force, with its resistance only coming from the air, said Liang Jianying, deputy general manager and chief engineer of CRRC Sifang.

As a new mode of high-speed traffic, the train is safe, reliable and has low noise pollution, small vibration, large passenger capacity and needs less maintenance, he said, saying that it can fill the speed gap between high-speed rail, whose maximum operating speed is 350 km/h [(217 mph)], and aircraft, whose cruising speed is 800 to 900 km/h [(500 to 560 mph)].

[...] Although the maglev prototype train is about to be rolled off the production line, there is no track line for the 600 km/h high speed maglev train in China yet.


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  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday July 20 2021, @08:07PM (3 children)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Tuesday July 20 2021, @08:07PM (#1158403) Journal

    That should be the headline

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 20 2021, @08:14PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 20 2021, @08:14PM (#1158408)

    You don't think they can get the railline built by Tuesday?

    • (Score: 4, Funny) by shortscreen on Tuesday July 20 2021, @08:29PM

      by shortscreen (2252) on Tuesday July 20 2021, @08:29PM (#1158417) Journal

      They have a team 500m up ahead, assembling additional track as the train glides toward them. It's a lot like curling.

  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 20 2021, @08:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 20 2021, @08:38PM (#1158427)

    No problem, all they have to do is copy the USA and import a bunch of Chinamen to build their railroads.