China's 600 km/h maglev train

[LKJ86]

China's 600 km/h maglev train
May 23, 2019

 

[Han Patriot]

Now this is powerful shit

 

[Sabretooth]

So this thing goes faster than a Lockheed C-130 Hercules.

 

[TaiShang]

China rolls out high-speed maglev train with top speed of 600 kmph

Source:Global Times Published: 2019/5/23

A prototype high-speed maglev train with a top speed of 600 kilometers (km) per hour rolled off the assembly line in Qingdao, East China's Shandong Province on Thursday, the Xinhua News Agency reported.

The completion of the maglev train at 10:50 am Thursday marked a major breakthrough by China in the field of high-speed maglev technology, the one-paragraph-long Xinhua report said.

China has been pursuing maglev technology since the first decade of this century and is a leading country in terms of maglev mileage.

A maglev line has linked Shanghai's Pudong airport with the city center since 2006 on a 30-kilometer-long track, using German technology. The service, with a top speed of 300 kilometers per hour, had safely transported a total of 50 million passengers by September 2017.

Zhuzhou in Central China's Hunan Province and Beijing each have a section of low-speed maglev lines in service.

The prototype high-speed train will be a vital part in mastering the design, manufacturing, testing and evaluation process for obtaining proprietary maglev technology, according to influential social media outlet tieluguancha.

High-speed maglev trains will ideally fit into the modern travel pattern in China, which is dominated by high-speed trains running at 350 km per hour and jet planes travelling at 800 km per hour, the report said.

The maglev trains would offer the fastest way of traveling a distance of 1,500 kilometers, the outlet reported, citing an expert.

Global Times

 

[atan651]

Don't need to buy so many crap airplanes from Boeing. The sooner this beauty goes into operation the better it is for China.

 

[Paul2]

So this thing goes faster than a Lockheed C-130 Hercules.

Ask Gen. Zia

 

[beijingwalker]

Looks very futuristic..

 

[JohnyD]

high speed rail costs so much but if u can afford and can build it overcoming social and geological issues/challenges, it is the best thing i would like see as future mode of mass transportation, i hate plane travels!

I was watching a documetaory on CNN as how high speed rail system can solve current and future problems for the ppl of the US but they are struggling with political will as it requires huge fund allocation and may badly hurt their car loving economy..

 

[beijingwalker]

China unveils 600 kph maglev train prototype

 

[chengdusudise]

good news.but it is still too expensive

 

[beijingwalker]

Will China’s 600km/h maglev train bring air travellers down to earth?

• Unveiled in Shandong, prototype will be a first step towards ground-breaking high-speed travel that will rival passenger jets, project engineer says

Published: 9:35pm, 23 May, 2019

One possible future for rapid transport in China is unveiled in the form of a magnetic levitation train at Qingdao in Shandong province. Photo: Weibo

An experimental magnetic levitation train capable of travelling at 600km/h went on show at Qingdao in eastern Shandong province on Thursday, state media said.

Powerful electromagnets hold the Qingdao prototype at a thumb’s width from the rail, giving a quiet, smooth ride at speeds close to those involved in air travel, developers said.

While China operates the world's fastest conventional train service, which can reach a speed of 350km/h, the Shanghai Maglev has been in commercial operation since the end of 2002 and can reach a top speed of 430km/h. It operates on one 30-kilometre (19-mile) line between two stations.

Ding Sansan, deputy chief engineer with developer the CRRC Sifang Corporation, said China achieved breakthroughs in maglev technology during the “three-year-battle” to build the new train that involved cooperation between more than 30 enterprises, universities and government research institutes.

The construction of a train body with ultra-lightweight, high-strength materials was a challenge, Ding said. Complex physical problems created by high speeds also needed to be solved in new ways if the Qingdao prototype was to reach peak performance.

China was a leader in technologies that included suspension, guidance, control and high-powered traction, Ding told Qingdao Daily.

“The test vehicle has been powered up and is in good order,” Ding was quoted by the newspaper as saying.

The prototype promised to eliminate the advantages jet passenger planes had over ground vehicles over a distance of 1,500km, he said.


Taking Beijing-to-Shanghai by plane as an example, Ding suggested: “It takes about four-and-a-half hours by plane including preparation time for the journey; about five-and-a-half hours by high-speed rail, and [would] only [take] about three-and-a-half hours by maglev.”

While earlier reports suggested the prototype was expected to begin full-scale testing by 2020, it was unclear what Thursday’s unveiling meant for this timetable.

More maglevs would join the development project in the coming months, the team leader was quoted as saying, while mass production of the technology was likely by 2021.

In contrast to the optimism of the team at Qingdao, Chen Peihong, professor of economics at Beijing Jiaotong University and a transport analyst, was more circumspect about the future of maglev trains.

“The market has to be bigger. Technology alone cannot make [the concept] a success,” she said.

Public transport relied heavily on economies of scale, Chen said. Chinese cities including Jinan, Hangzhou and Chongqing were considering maglev lines, but even the longest – from Jinan to Taian – would not exceed 50 kilometres.

Chen said that electromagnetic fields from maglevs were greater than those from the lines that powered high-speed trains, while environmental worries might keep maglevs out of densely-populated areas.

There was a debate in China in the early 2000s about the benefits of a developing a maglev compared to high-speed rail, researchers on that project said. Rail was preferred by the government because it was an established technology and one that was cheaper to realise.

By the end of last year, China’s high-speed rail network extended to most of the country at a distance in excess of 29,000 kilometres, according to government figures, twice as long as the rest of the world’s high-speed rail lines combined. Spain’s high-speed AVE network was the second-longest at 3,100km.

Elsewhere, researchers in Chengdu, Sichuan province, said a vehicle inside a vacuum tube powered by a superconductor coil from a maglev train – a hyperlink – was in development. They expected the vehicle to reach speeds in excess of 1,000km/h as air was pumped from the tube and resistance to the speeding object gradually eliminated.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/sci...-maglev-train-bring-air-travellers-down-earth

 

[Type59]

Ask Gen. Zia

https://c130mro.com/2018/06/23/indian-air-force-c-130j-crash/

We could ask them too.

 

[Adam WANG SHANGHAI MEGA]

high speed rail costs so much but if u can afford and can build it overcoming social and geological issues/challenges, it is the best thing i would like see as future mode of mass transportation, i hate plane travels!

I was watching a documetaory on CNN as how high speed rail system can solve current and future problems for the ppl of the US but they are struggling with political will as it requires huge fund allocation and may badly hurt their car loving economy..

add time spent before boarding and after boarding,600kmph train and 980kmph plane,not that big difference.

good news.but it is still too expensive

the same to plane i guess.maybe slightly higher price.
But note this:Travel with plane is very expensive in China than doing so in US.
Several hundres or thousands dollars in China compare to 100 to 200 USD in US
Plus,China has 1.4 billions people Vs US 300 millions only

I got more photo

 

[lcloo]

I was on the +400km/hr Maglev train in Shanghai city to Pudong Airport way back to 2009. It is time those old Maglev train need to be replaced by these new 600KM/Hr train.

 

[rambro]

Literally continuous improvement
Good job