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

Even faster than air travel. We Forum report that these forced of nature are not only faster, but vibrates less and are silent as a tomb. Currently, China has the world's fastest maglev train already ...

China claims it has set a new world speed record for a maglev train after a prototype reached a speed of 650km/h in just 7 ...

Buried beneath Japan’s mountains, a 500 km/h levitating train is being built to connect Tokyo and Osaka in under an hour. Using superconducting magnets and linear motors, this SCMaglev system ...

New bullet train concepts are emerging around the US, while overseas countries are pushing the boundaries even further, reaching performances that we never thought were possible. For now, Amtrak ...

Implementing high-speed rail nationwide would be detrimental to these towns, in turn undermining key parts of the overall ...

Monorails are not Maglevs. Don’t confuse the single-track, rubber-tired monorails with the magnetic-levitation technology in ...

The Shinkansen — Japanese for “new line” — made its impressive debut in October 1964, a few days before the Tokyo Olympics.

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 ...