Shanghai Maglev Train
Shanghai Maglev Train Reviews
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 Transportation with the Maglev Train of Shanghai!!!!!!!!!!!! Jan 12, 2008
Our Shanghai tour guide asked us if we would like to experience the Maglev train, when I found out how fast it was, and I couldn't pass it up. I'm glad to have had this opportunity though it wasn't part of the original package; our tour guide suggested it, and fit it into the schudule she had already planned out for us in Shanghai.
This is an experience that people of Shanghai may use as a means of transportation to get to/from the airport on time. When we got off the Maglev, we walked around the airport for a good 45 minutes, picked up a coffee and looked in some shops … we realized the time & quickly went back to the train, and got back on the next train. Returning our tour guide thought we were a bit late; we told her we walked the airport and returned missing a couple of trains OOOPS. The Maglev museum, at the station, will show you: the founder, its history, and the WINDOWS they use > decelerating glass making objects outside appear to move at a normal speed, though we were traveling at 431kms/hr, GO FIGURE ... YOU MUST GO FOR THE TRIP ON THE MAGLEV TRAIN!!  Part of the Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Macau, Beijing, Xi'an, Guilin, & Shanghai & onto Victoria, BC travel blog |
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Speeding bullet Feb 01, 2009
From Shanghai financial district runs the Maglev (magnetice levitation) train to the Airport of Shanghai. It's the one AND only maglev train in the world wich runs fully operational. The train was tested and build in germany. The train has a speed of 435 km/h (record is 581km/h) and does the 30 km track to the airport in less than 7 minutes.
China is planning to extend the existing Shanghai Maglev Train, initially by some 35 kilometers to Shanghai Hongqiao Airport and then 200 kilometers to the city of Hangzhou (Shanghai-Hangzhou Maglev Train). If built, this would be the first inter-city maglev rail line in commercial service. 
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 Jul 24, 2006
The train bleats is a wonder of the technique. The Chinese joke, they make the Germans and they prove it in China. It is incredible as the 120 km/h are seen automobiles by the freeway as they are advanced by this train. That would say the first motorists of century 19 if they rose this? FLY TO 431 KM/H.....
Part of the China 2006 travel blog
Fly in the air to 431 km/h
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Shanghai Maglev Train Blogs
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Jan 12, 2008
Maglev train. She was great tour guide, making sure we had this opportunity though it wasn't part of the original package ... we paid a that little extra for the tickets to have this experience, that the people of Shanghai experience daily to get to the airport… The Oriental Pearl Tower, Maglev Train, and Yu Yuan Gardens of Shanghai!! |
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Feb 16, 2006
The Maglev train. I've heard about the magnetic levitation trains in Japan before, so was somewhat eager to it. Who doesn't want to travel at breakneck speeds through the Chinese countryside. I can't remember exactly how far the airport was away from the city… Windless sails |
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Apr 02, 2007
We also took an excursion on the Maglev train, which for non-train spotters is a magnetic levitation train - that is it uses magnetic force to propel itself forwards. It took 8 mins for the journey that our crazy taxi driver took 1 hour to complete! The Maglev reached speeds… Travel and Arrive in China |
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Dec 23, 2006
We'd like to take the maglev train to the hostel, because it's the fastest way to go to the town centre, it took maximum 431 km/hr, it's a really high speed. Unfortunately, it had been closed when we arrived. What a shame that it closed that… Eastern China Relaxing Trip Day 1 |
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Jan 17, 2007
The next day MP took me to the gem market to purchase pearls, and then took me to the viewing deck on the Jin Mao tower (tallest building in China and 5th tallest in the world. Took the Maglev train back to the airport at 431kph! Fast, but still missed my flight. Argh … Shanghai Jan 2007 |
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