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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, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 20 2021, @09:13PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 20 2021, @09:13PM (#1158441)

    Japan already has this and a hare faster too.. the train, track and all running (the China one above is the train only, no track to run it on,so not even sure if it really works..)

    I think they're saying that their dicktrain will be even biggerbetter (when it exists) than the Japanese Chūo Shinkansen, which is only planned to have a 500km/h top speed when it is opened for actual service.

    However, the Japanese train actually exists and has actually operated at over 600km/h in testing (and currently holds the world record for the highest speed attained on a manned train).

    Unfortunately the Chūō Shinkansen's 2027 opening date of the first segment for passenger service is no longer likely as JR Central did not sufficiently grease the palms of the Shizuoka prefectural government and construction there is currently delayed indefinitely due to "environmental" concerns. As the current governor of Shizuoka was recently re-elected on a platform of continuing his opposition to this project, probably JR Central is going to have to make a concession elsewhere in order to make this opposition magically disappear.

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  • (Score: 2) by MIRV888 on Tuesday July 20 2021, @09:58PM

    by MIRV888 (11376) on Tuesday July 20 2021, @09:58PM (#1158462)

    Money talks and bullsh1t walks.
    Literally true in this case.