Dominik, Brigitte und Udo Wiesner sind wöchentlich beim Transrapid-Besucherzentrum in Lathen, geben Führungen und erhalten die Erinnerungen an die einzigartige Technologie. Wie es dazu kam, erzählen ...
OSNABRUECK, Germany (Reuters) - State prosecutors in Germany have charged three people with manslaughter for their role in a high-speed train crash which killed 23 people and injured 10 last year.
BERLIN — A high-speed magnetic train crashed into a maintenance cart during a test run Friday in northwestern Germany, killing at least 23 people and scattering wreckage over the elevated tracks. The ...
LATHEN, Germany - A high-tech train that floats on powerful magnetic fields smashed into a maintenance car on an elevated test track Friday, killing 23 people and injuring 10 - the first fatalities on ...
BERLIN, March 27 (Reuters) - Germany has ditched plans to build a flagship high-speed rail link between the Bavarian capital Munich and its airport because of ballooning costs, Transport Minister ...
The Transrapid in Shanghai has set a new world for commercial railway systems of 501 kmh (311 mph). The maglev (magnetic levitation) train, which has no wheels, axels, engine or transmission, broke ...
Initial indications were that human error, not sophisticated maglev technology, was to blame for putting the maintenance vehicle on the track at the same time as the Transrapid train. The train was ...