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AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
China developing 600kph maglev train.
antiterror13
Brigadier
wondering whether 600kph maglev train would have practical use ....
Equation
Lieutenant General
I wouldn't mind having one here in Texas that goes from Houston to Dallas.
antiterror13
Brigadier
me too ... I wouldn't mind here from Wellington to Auckland, it would take 1 hour, faster than an aeroplane 
It would be very noisy and not sure of safety
It would be very noisy and not sure of safety
Equation
Lieutenant General
me too ... I wouldn't mind here from Wellington to Auckland, it would take 1 hour, faster than an aeroplane
It would be very noisy and not sure of safety
Speed on the ground is safer than speed in the air. Once the plane goes down, EVERYBODY goes down with it..and no parachutes. Train derailment happens rarely and more likely for passengers to survive than a down airline.
me too ... I wouldn't mind here from Wellington to Auckland, it would take 1 hour, faster than an aeroplane
It would be very noisy and not sure of safety
quite the opposite as the main noise source of electric train comes from the wheels where maglev dont have at all
solarz
Brigadier
The problem with HSR is that after a certain point, you experience diminishing returns. Remember that trains need to serve multiple stops between major cities. If the interval between stops is too short, high speed becomes meaningless. For example, the Shanghai maglev reaches top speed for only a few moments before having to decelerate. Granted, that one is a tech demo, but the dynamic is the same.
I'm sure there are applications for a 600kph maglev, I'm just not sure those applications exist right now. Perhaps it can be used for very long distance travel such as between Beijing and Moscow? Maybe once OBOR takes off we will see more need for such trains.
vesicles
Colonel
Oh you don't have to worry about having too many stops between Houston and Dallas. It's almost 220 miles of nothingness between them...
the only city big enough worth stopping in between would be Waco. And they will have to make College Station a stop because they have to... My folks live there...
My apologies to those who live in one of the small towns between Houston and Dallas.
SamuraiBlue
Captain
Try the route between Tokyo-Nagoya and extended to Osaka later on. The Chuo Shinkansen that is being constructed right now and will be inaugurated in 2027 and will be running at 500Km/h with a travel time of 47 minutes. The trip from Tokyo to Osaka will be 67 minutes.