The idea of using magnetic levitation to run a high-speed railroad has been around since 1934, when a German scientist named Hermann Kemper received a patent on the technology. Such trains would be ...

A throng of waiting riders in Bremen, Germany, this spring watched the three-car train rise 10 mm off the 400-volt DC rail track, levitated by a bay of magnets that are repelled by reaction rails ...

The planned construction of the high-tech Transrapid maglev train in Bavaria has been cancelled due to massive cost increases, Germany's transportation minister announced on Thursday. "The Munich ...

Germany is auctioning off a maglev train that officials once hoped would speed up transport at home and become a major export success. The Transrapid train is on show Tuesday and Wednesday to would-be ...

Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji and visiting German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder cut the ribbon for the trial operation of Shanghai Transrapid Maglev Line, a high-speed transportation system. Premier Zhu ...

The Transrapid in Shanghai has set a new world for commercial railway systems of 501 kmh (311 mph). The maglev (magnetic levitation) train, which has no wheels, axels, engine or transmission, broke ...

The world’s first magnetic levitation passenger train will begin running on 1 January 2003 in Shanghai, Chinese officials have announced. The train has reached 500 kilometres per hour (312 miles per ...

For people, like myself, with professional and personal connections to Transrapid's test track in north-western Germany, the tragic events of Friday 22 September will remain with us forever.

A train which travels at 119 meters per second? Incredible, but true. The Shanghai Transrapid Maglev Line performs at this speed. The high-speed train, scheduled for a trial run on Tuesday, is able to ...

Germany's richest state agreed on Sept. 25 to build the country's first commercial high-speed magnetic levitation train line, but officials warned the price tag could be heftier than first thought.