Japanese Meglev

[Oliver Hardy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZX9T0kWb4Y

Is supposed to run from Tokyo to Nagoya, distance 178 miles in 40 min, cost of construction 75 Billion dollars, it will run ,ostly underground. Cost of HS2 isn't it currently supposed to be 100 billion pounds?

Have I got this right?

[ChocolateFrog]

Haven't they been trying to get that to work for decades.

[LukeBrown66]

I believe so yes, it has been running on this bit of track for a long time, the issue is trying to get the onboard stuff to work without electricity, an obvious flaw in magnet operation, they might be very fast, but there are issues. But they seem to be being resolved.

[Hammersia]

It's a fantastic project, still claiming to be partially open by 2027 but if you read around it a bit some of the construction hasn't yet kicked off, so it's probably optimistic.

Doubt it's a "real" 100 billion however, bearing in mind they've been R+Ding it since the 1970s, and Japanese interest rates have always been around 2%.

[Oliver Hardy]

I would have thought as the guy in the video actually rode the train it is now working?

[Hammersia]

Oliver Hardy said:

I would have thought as the guy in the video actually rode the train it is now working?

That's just a short test track that will form part of the eventual route. But the principle seems to work, yes.

[Talksteer]

The test track is pretty long! The train can also carry 1000 passengers, they aren't messing around.

[E63eeeeee...]

I came here to read about a train made out of those fking massive sharks.

Disappointed is not the word.

[808 Estate]

Chinese maglev has been running for almost 20 years now. And very impressive it is too.

[Talksteer]

808 Estate said:

Chinese maglev has been running for almost 20 years now. And very impressive it is too.

Very German as well, the German test track was about the same size as the operational system.

It's interesting that the Japanese are finally building one at scale as are the Chinese. For the last 20 years or so the principle argument against maglev had been that it lacks scale, interchangeability and nobody wanted to buy the first of a kind project.

If the Japanese build this one and keep building many of those arguements start going away.

Edited by Talksteer on Sunday 9th April 12:57

[Nomme de Plum]

Professor Eric Laithwaite.

Clever guy.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Laithwaite