Information, Transportation

RTV 31 Hovertrain

The 1960s and 70s were an era of grand projects from landing on the moon to Concorde and passenger hovercraft. It was a golden age of engineering when anything seemed possible, even if projects were over budget, technically ambitious and…

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Andrew
Information, Transportation
Aérotrain

Aérotrain

Last week I was on  holiday in France. Driving down from Paris to Orléans on the D2020, I noticed a long raised structure to the east running for several kilometres. It was a few hundred metres from the road so all…

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Andrew
Transportation
Chinese High Speed Train

Chinese High Speed Train

My father is in China at the moment and he’s on the high speed train between Shanghai and Hangzhou. Here’s the train at the station in Shanghai. The speed is very impressive… 302 km/h or 188 mph. That’s pretty quick.

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