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The Shanghai maglev is the world's first commercial high-speed maglev and has a maximum cruising speed of 300 km/h (186 mph). [3] Prior to May 2021 the cruising speed was 431 km/h (268 mph), at the time this made it the fastest train service in commercial operation.
The Birmingham International Maglev shuttle. The world's first commercial maglev system was a low-speed maglev shuttle that ran between the airport terminal of Birmingham International Airport and the nearby Birmingham International railway station between 1984 and 1995. [34]
Shanghai – Hangzhou: China had planned to extend the world's first commercial Transrapid line between Pudong airport and the city of Shanghai initially by some 35 kilometers to Hong Qiao airport before the World Expo 2010 and then, in an additional phase, by 200 kilometers to the city of Hangzhou (Shanghai-Hangzhou Maglev Train), which would have been the first inter-city maglev rail line in ...
In 2004, the Shanghai Maglev Train became the world's first commercially operated high-speed maglev. As of 2023 [update] , it remains the fastest commercial train in the world with peak speeds of 431 km/h (268 mph) and makes the 30.5 km (19.0 mi) trip in less than 7.5 minutes.
World's first GoA4 line Rokkō Island Line: 21 February 1990: Linimo: 6 March 2005: World's first unmanned maglev: Osaka Metro: Nanko Port Town Line: 20 October 1991: Previously used GoA2 from 1981 to 1991 Skyrail Midorizaka Line: 28 August 1998: People Mover monorail Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation: Nippori-Toneri Liner: 30 March ...
The super-speed Transrapid maglev system has no wheels, no axles, no gear transmissions, no steel rails, and no overhead electrical pantographs.The maglev vehicles do not roll on wheels; rather, they hover above the track guideway, using the attractive magnetic force between two linear arrays of electromagnetic coils—one side of the coil on the vehicle, the other side in the track guideway ...
The prototype unveiled by researchers at Southwest Jiaotong University in Chengdu, China, and is unlike other maglev trains. Forget Hyperloop, check out China’s new 620kmph maglev prototype Skip ...
It is also the world's first uncrewed commercial urban maglev. [2] Linimo was the fourth overall commercial urban maglev operated in the world, predated by the Birmingham Maglev (1984–1995), the Berlin M-Bahn (1989–1991) and the Shanghai Maglev (opened in 2004).