China bought the transrapid system in early 2000's and build an express to Shangai Airport, in the 2010's it built the world's largest network of high speed rail but opted for conventional rail due the elevated costs of building Maglevs, nevertheless they didn't stop reasearch and devevolped a brand new train and even built low speed maglevs for some rapid transit lines.
*sigh* We could have had the worlds most advanced high-speed transportation system decades ago, but what we got instead is crumbling railroad infrastructure and ICEs that barely ever reach their maximum speed.
Yes what a shame, I remember watching this in the 80's when I was a child and couldn't wait for it to be built all over the world. Always wanted to go to Emsland to ride it but then there was the accident. I did get to ride the one in Shanghai which was great but really too short to be of any real use. Word of warning about Shanghai, It goes from the airport to the outskirts of Shanghai and when you get to the terminus there are no other transport connections so you are stuck. They were going to continue to the city center but the project was stopped for some reason so all you can do really is ride back to the airport what a waste.
@@flixri726 Yeah hindsight is great but I was 13 years old and it was massively inspiring. I still think it would be a lot better than conventional rail but it wasn't to be, perhaps if an actual useful busy line was built and in service today people would be thinking differently. I think it was a lost opportunity.
But the current problems arent related to the technology that is rail???? Maglev could have had the same problems. I too would have liked for maglev to be explored further but I never understood comments like that, that mention the current problems we are facing which have absolutely nothing to do with the technology itself and could have been the same for Maglev
@@flixri726 It was a test track and also human error that led to the incident. The dispatcher forget a maintenance crew+vehicle were still on the track waiting for the switch to change.
@@Guy-Zero yes, what followed was a wrangled wreck in 5 meter altitude. Almost impossible to rescue people from without special equipment. That isn't at every fire department in some cases not even on county level. If you compare the transrapid crash where 23 of 31 passengers died to the Train crash of Eschede where of around 220 passengers 107 survived the problem is obvious. If you scale the whole thing up to make it more than a test track, the chances for human error just increase by magnitudes due to complexity but also due to demand and the needed integration with other systems like traintracks and the Autobahn-network.
Ah, the 70s and 80s were so optimistic. The music, the colors, the technology, everything!!!
China bought the transrapid system in early 2000's and build an express to Shangai Airport, in the 2010's it built the world's largest network of high speed rail but opted for conventional rail due the elevated costs of building Maglevs, nevertheless they didn't stop reasearch and devevolped a brand new train and even built low speed maglevs for some rapid transit lines.
*sigh* We could have had the worlds most advanced high-speed transportation system decades ago, but what we got instead is crumbling railroad infrastructure and ICEs that barely ever reach their maximum speed.
Yes what a shame, I remember watching this in the 80's when I was a child and couldn't wait for it to be built all over the world. Always wanted to go to Emsland to ride it but then there was the accident. I did get to ride the one in Shanghai which was great but really too short to be of any real use.
Word of warning about Shanghai, It goes from the airport to the outskirts of Shanghai and when you get to the terminus there are no other transport connections so you are stuck. They were going to continue to the city center but the project was stopped for some reason so all you can do really is ride back to the airport what a waste.
Mag-Lav isn’t the solution and the money the bund and Lower Saxony invested into the the Transrapid would have been better spent on train tracks.
@@flixri726 Yeah hindsight is great but I was 13 years old and it was massively inspiring. I still think it would be a lot better than conventional rail but it wasn't to be, perhaps if an actual useful busy line was built and in service today people would be thinking differently. I think it was a lost opportunity.
@@thedave7760 Mag-Lav isn't working anywhere really good in the world, but I didnt meant you.
But the current problems arent related to the technology that is rail???? Maglev could have had the same problems. I too would have liked for maglev to be explored further but I never understood comments like that, that mention the current problems we are facing which have absolutely nothing to do with the technology itself and could have been the same for Maglev
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calls it the safest yet there was a deadly incident with said train
That doesnt conflict with what was said though? Planes are also incredibly safe yet there have been deadly incidents
@@Guy-Zero given how small and infrequent it ran, just one crash will really destroy its statistic
@@flixri726 It was a test track and also human error that led to the incident. The dispatcher forget a maintenance crew+vehicle were still on the track waiting for the switch to change.
@@Guy-Zero yes, what followed was a wrangled wreck in 5 meter altitude. Almost impossible to rescue people from without special equipment. That isn't at every fire department in some cases not even on county level. If you compare the transrapid crash where 23 of 31 passengers died to the Train crash of Eschede where of around 220 passengers 107 survived the problem is obvious. If you scale the whole thing up to make it more than a test track, the chances for human error just increase by magnitudes due to complexity but also due to demand and the needed integration with other systems like traintracks and the Autobahn-network.