Tracked Hovercraft
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Tracked Hovercraft was an experimental high-speed train developed in the United Kingdom during the 1960s. It combined two British inventions, the hovercraft and the linear induction motor, in an effor
The RTV 31 at Earith, Cambridgeshire, during testing in May 1973
This building was formerly the hangar used by RTV 31, now used by an engineering firm. The guideway ran out of the far end of the building, curving to meet the Old Bedford River at the right, out of view.
Electrical substation at Ditton Walk Cambridge, which was installed to provide enough power for Hovertrain engineering experiments in the 1970s
Service vehicles for the Tracked Hovercraft on the "rail", including the former ED10 converted to 3' gauge, and two Austin Champ jeeps equipped with guidance wheels
Maglev
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Maglev is a system of rail transport whose rolling stock is levitated by magnets rather than rolled on wheels.
Tracked Hovercraft
…were dismissing the need for any form of high-speed rail. Another serious concern was the rapid development and apparent superiority of the competing maglev concept. A study by THL noted that air drag on a canonical 40-long ton 100-passenger hovercraft at 400 km/h (250 mph) with a (considerable) 70 km/h (43…
L0 Series train on the under-construction Chūō Shinkansen, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan
Example of low-speed urban maglev system, Linimo
The Birmingham International Maglev shuttle
Transrapid at the Emsland test facility