On a train at 502kph.....wow!

NicktheNorse said:
Although 500kph isn't that fast. It's about the speed of a 747 whilst extending gears on approach to landing (ca. 270 knots).
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Pretty fast for a land based object.

NicktheNorse said:
Keep in mind that this is a maglev train - there are no steel wheels and rails as with a convential railway!
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Even better reason for us not to have one, unless the taxpayers are going to be shown a £25bn+ bill :)
 
i dunno if these exist, but when i was younger i always thought a floating train would be good, could go well quick.

basically it would be underground, and the tunnels would be all magnetic, and the train would be held in the air by the magnets repelling each other, no friction = ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM, YEAH ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM....... *whisper* zoom zoom *end whisper*
 
James H said:
no wheels? how does it work then?

is it magnetic like a monorail?
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Magnets my good friend.

You know when you try and put two magnets similar in polarity together they push apart... using that principle the train is lifted off of the track, into the air with side magnets for stabilisation...

I believe transmission works by changing the polarity of the next magnet to attract the train forwards and then switching it back and so forth.. but i havnt looked at maglevs for some time...

impressive though.. i hadnt seen anything quite as advanced as that in terms of the technology.
 
Imagine London to Glasgow in about an hour or so, quicker than flying if you take into account the time between arriving and boarding. Much less pollution as well.

As our train netwrok seems to be getting worse, Maglev trains in the near future, not a chance over here.
 
Killerkebab said:
Think of the absolutely massive price...

New tracks using new technology, then new trains, new train stations, new everything, almost.
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Well if you need a upgrade of course its going to ve expensive of something this scale but i get the goverment would help out and it wouldnt just be for virgin but we need to keep up with the tech
 
nick_cfc said:
i guess that answers my previous question, although it works in a different way, mine is better i think, would be like throwing a sausage down an alley
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Me and my ex-girlfriend perfected that ;)
 
The shanghai one is sweet....Takes 8 minutes instead of the usual hour to the airport :cool:

I dunno why, but everyone seems to have faster trains than the UK...Even here in Korea they have a 300kph+ train that runs over the whole country...
 
gord said:
Magnets my good friend.

You know when you try and put two magnets similar in polarity together they push apart... using that principle the train is lifted off of the track, into the air with side magnets for stabilisation...

I believe transmission works by changing the polarity of the next magnet to attract the train forwards and then switching it back and so forth.. but i havnt looked at maglevs for some time...

impressive though.. i hadnt seen anything quite as advanced as that in terms of the technology.
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Doesn't it use a superconducting material that at low temperatures (i.e 90 Kelvin), maintained by liquid nitrogen, expells all magnetic fields.

This website explains it better

http://www.fys.uio.no/super/levitation/
 
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