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EUROPEAN Aeronautic Defence & Space Company subsidiary Racoms has won a €29m contract from Siemens to supply radio communications for the Shanghai Transrapid maglev project.A 38GHz range radio relay system will be provide real-time transmission of data between moving trains and the control centre, using highly-focusing antennae along the route. ...
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Maglev all the rage again
ON JULY 16 Nexans announced an order from ThyssenKrupp Transrapid GmbH for supply and installation of the long stator motor winding for the 30 km guideway of the world’s first commercial maglev project in Shanghai, and the first cables arrived in the Chinese city from Germany last month.Although the ...
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Five more years of maglev tests needed
CENTRAL JAPAN Railway has announced a ’technical development plan’ for its superconducting maglev test line near Ohtsuki in Yamanashi prefecture. JR Central says that the Maglev Technological Practicality Evaluation Committee concluded in March that ’the Superconducting Maglev technology has the practicality for an ultra-high-speed mass transport system’, but it is ...
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Japanese now alone in high speed maglev stakes
IT HAS long been clear that the much-hyped project to build a Transrapid magnetic levitation line between Hamburg and Berlin was going nowhere fast. The only question was how much longer it would cling to life as successive governments chose weasel words in their statements about its future to avoid ...
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Single track maglev
JUST BEFORE he left the post of Transport Minister in the German government (p626), Heinz Münterfering ruled that the Hamburg - Berlin Transrapid maglev project was to be built initially using a single track (RG 6.99 p346), with provision made for vehicles to pass - presumably a reference to a ...
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Japanese Maglev sets new world record
ON CHRISTMAS EVE, engineers at Japan's Tsuru - Otsuki Superconducting Maglev test track in Yamanashi prefecture completed their current series of very high speed trials by setting a new world record for an unmanned trainset. Following the achievement of a new manned record of 531 km/h on December 12, the ...
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Transrapid survives another review
WE HAVE lost count of the number of times that high speed maglev projects have been given green lights, go-aheads and approvals in Germany. The latest came at the end of April when Transport Minister Matthias Wissmann said the project to build a Transrapid line between Hamburg and Berlin would ...
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Maglev guideway opening presages three years of trials
INTRO: The 18·4 km priority section of experimental Superconducting Maglev guideway was formally opened on April 3, and the first levitation trials are due to take place next month. Murray Hughes reports from the Yamanashi test centreJAPANESE Minister of Transport Makoto Koga and Yoshiyuki Kasai, President of JR Central, took ...
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