While China, with a maglev train hitting 650 km/h (404 mph) in just seven seconds, might regard the achievement as cute, it ...

New technology in maglev trains ensures high acceleration and top speed. However, the cost of building the lines remains high.

Launched in 2003 and using German technology, the current maglev train rides on a 30-km-long magnetic cushion between suburban Shanghai and its international airport in Pudong New Area.

Based on German technology, the Maglev trains fly along an elevated track, the powerful magnets providing a super-smooth, friction-free ride. Using experience gained from more than a decade of ...

Twenty-three people died and 10 were injured when an elevated magnetic train ploughed into a maintenance vehicle in north-western Germany. The train, which floats on a monorail via a magnetic ...

The first operational maglev train was developed in Germany. The Transrapid, a high-speed maglev system, was introduced in the 1970s, with its first successful prototype running on a test track in ...

As it stands, maglev trains have been running for decades, with one even running in Germany during the Cold War from 1989 to 1991. Unfortunately, despite the success seen with those maglev trains ...

Germany also briefly ran a maglev service at the end of the Cold War. Running from 1989 to 1991, the route filled a gap in the public transport network caused by the Berlin Wall.

It took until 1972 for the first maglev train to be built (in Germany, as an experiment) while Japan tested its electrodynamic (repulsion) magnetic train system in the same decade.