Maglev trains have long been touted as the new dawn for train technology. Despite keen and eager interest in the mid-20th century, development has been slow, and only limited commercial operations ...

China has produced the first of a new breed of maglev trains capable of speeds up to 600 km/h (373 mph), or nearly half the speed of sound. It says these will be the fastest ground transport services ...

Magnetic levitation, or maglev, technology has been around since the 1940s, but it's only now coming into focus as a means of high-speed transit. There are several maglev train systems spread ...

Walking into a colossal, ultra-modern high-speed railway station in Shanghai can be an eye-opening experience, especially for Thais. The high-speed technology is worth closer examination because a ...

China may eschew foreign technology for a proposed high-speed rail line between Shanghai and Hangzhou to slash costs by a third, a Shanghai rail official said on Tuesday in the latest blow for Germany ...

ARRIVED China is first to build commercial maglev trains; U.S. engineers want to emulate. China’s bold move to build 30 kilometers of magnetically levitated high-speed guideway between Shanghai and ...

China has unveiled a new maglev train capable of reaching speeds of 600 km/h, cutting travel time between Beijing and Shanghai, the country's busiest tourist destinations, to 2.5 hours. The trip ...

A new floating bullet train capable of hitting speeds of 600 kilometers per hour (about 372 miles/hour) is one step closer to reality in China. On Thursday, the body prototype for the country’s latest ...

(For related story see [ID:nSHA333677]) Jan 15 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Shanghai residents protested at the weekend against plans to extend the city's magnetic levitation, or "maglev", train route into ...