Re: Transrapid abandons Sydney-Canberra

[David Bromage <dbromage@omni.com.au>]

Maarten Deen wrote:
> FYI: the planned line Berlin-Hamburg wil be some 290 km long and the planned
> yourney time is just under 1 hour.

Actually it's 292km in exactly 1 hour, or 292km/h. From a maximum speed
of 430km/h, that's a shockingly low average speed.

> Info can be found on http://www.magnetschnellbahn.de (planning for the
> Hamburg-Berlin line, only in German) and http://www.mvp.de (testsite
> in Lathen, German and English)

Much of the information Transrapid presents is pure fiction.

Cheers
David