The country’s first high-speed Maglev train, it began operating in 2003. Running at a top speed of 431 kph, the train links Shanghai Pudong Airport and Longyang Road in the eastern side of Shanghai.

There's a point in a YouTube video posted by OlisBigPicture when Shanghai Maglev trains pass one another ... with rows of seats on each side of an aisle. The value is the efficient, quick travel ...

The car jerks from side ... Shanghai-Beijing maglev. But alas, China dropped that plan—the Beijing-Shanghai maglev would have cost almost $50 billion, three times as much as a traditional fast ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel views the worlds only operating high-speed magnetic levitation train called the Maglev in Shanghai ... last week that the German side had agreed to transfer ...

China has been using maglev trains since the debut of the Shanghai maglev train in 2004. That train only travels 19 miles, but it manages the distance in seven minutes and 20 seconds, reaching ...

Zhang Jingang/FeatureChina It would more than double the top speed of the current operational fastest train in the world, China's Shanghai Maglev, which can travel at 286 mph. During the test ...

The Shanghai maglev, for instance, cost an estimated $60mn (€55mn) per mile of track. Another longstanding barrier for maglev trains is the inability to run them on existing infrastructure.