Comments on: China Developing Maglev Train That Can Go 1000kph

By: iwonit

iwonit — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:46:21 +0000

INDIA Developing Maglev Train That Can Go 1500KMPH……lol
USA show interest to buy it by 2018 from india…..
china also already order 10 such trains from india by 2020…

By: Pratyay

Pratyay — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:42:20 +0000

wont the passengers suffocate in long journeys?
and how will they prepare vacuum stations??

By: dpcur@netzero.net

dpcur@netzero.net — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 19:14:55 +0000

1.The Train Crusing at 310 Miles Per in Cities & Towns too! In open areas is 630 Miles Per Hour too:, Or 1000 Kl/n per hour too!

By: chenyh

chenyh — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 04:14:03 +0000

loquat, perhaps your last visit to China was many years ago, or you have never been to China at all. China is not the China you ever knew.

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By: ko

ko — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:26:29 +0000

@loquat

I think you are a bit out of date on China’s rail technology.

China is presently producing the fastest HSR line using designs co-developed with Siemens and Hitachi and will have the HSR largest system by 2015.

Furthermore, China has the only commerical Maglev (also with Siemens) and has been develping plans for other Maglevs to run on several high density medium distance corridors.

I personally question the need and practicality of Maglev systems but my point is simply that China’s rail technology, particularly it’s rail construction technology is world-class and in the later case, world leading (faster, cheaper, most modern and systematic in design and construction).

@Philomelius

I tend to agree Maglev is prohibitively expensive in most cases except very high density medium range lines.

However, the cost of building these lines is likely to be much cheaper that what Switzerland had planned for various reasons including the terrain, methods and labor costs, and the potential ridership many time higher than any line running in Switzerland. Let’s see how far it goes, a conventional maglev connecting Shanghai Pudong and Hongqiao airports is not planned to be built.

BTW, Shanghai now has 14 metro lines built in 12 years, a majority in the past 6, so don’t underestimate Chinese ability to dig fast and cheap by using fast-track tunneling & tube construction methods.

By: misanu

misanu — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:17:20 +0000

I love it!! I wish the USA would stop spending billions on stupid wars over oil and use this magnet technology. Better than gettin on a plane. I could go from L.A. to N.Y. by train in 5 hours that is awesome. I could live in L.A. and work in Texas during the summer with just a 2-1/2 hour commute. Just freakin’ awesome!!!! Wish the USA would get their act together.

By: jacquesp

jacquesp — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 17:03:49 +0000

So, what’s the harm in trying?

By: JacquesP

JacquesP — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 16:51:38 +0000

Sorry; trying.

By: JacquesP

JacquesP — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 16:45:39 +0000

So, what’s the harm in tryng?

By: loquat

loquat — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:31:59 +0000

The above pictures are all from Japan. China is a long way away from anything that fast.

By: Philomelius

Philomelius — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:24:07 +0000

This is quite inaccurate. This project will (would) cost an arm and a leg : building vacuum tunnels like that requires very strong magnetic fields and, for the record, Switzerland had a similar project but r but dropped it because the first estimate was…. €50bn between Bern and Geneva!

By: Cristian Raicu

Cristian Raicu — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:36:04 +0000

WTF ????
In China Daily they wrote 600 km/h !!!

How in the hell you reach now 1000 km/h ???
What kind a news release is that ?

By: xenosilvano

xenosilvano — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:05:30 +0000

1 magemeter

By: YMB

YMB — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:34:54 +0000

An underground metro line costs 10 times more than a high speed rail track per km. So I really can’t believe that a vacuum underground maglev line would cost 1/7 that of a metro line (per km).