The UK is to implement high-speed rail - on rails - doing 225mph. The cost are rising before the route is even fixed. It now makes more sense to scrap the idea and go for Maglev. Maglev makes sense in the UK's geography. It was also invented in the UK.

It is amazing. It is like a continious airplane take off!

We need these in the US.

This is why I love youtube. What a great idea for a video, doods. And you did a great job of showing exactly what we want to see, which is the super fast fastness. Not like videos of the inside of the Orient Express where we just get to see Austrians drinking a lot.

I admire the Chinese for not worrying about cost for a project like this. Here is the US, it's all about profits so nothing ever get done. Progress comes first, then profits will slowly kick in.

I love your film. Thank you for sharing. I found it informative as well as exciting. Thanks again. m

that was friggin' sweet. thenks for hosting!

Amazing video. Loved the way we could compare speed with the traffic to give us a clearer idea. Thanks, guys.

I'v been on one of those trains on my way to the airport. It was so cool and so was Shanghai.

the video was interesting.thanks for posting it!!!

2:40 scared the shit out of me!

That is very cool! I would like to ride on this train when I visit Shanghai in November.

I've ridden this train, there's a digital display at the front of every car...when they go on those banked corners, it really feels like a roller-coaster for a couple seconds...

Wow! That was amazing. It was so fast, it almost looked fake, like the film was sped up.

Thank you for uploading this.

Great video, and amazing ride. Thanks for sharing the trip.

one hell of a well crafted machine

Credit should go to the local Shanghai government for being the first the first practical passenger carrying application in the world. Maglev technology has been studied for over 50 years and now that we see it working, other countries are sure to follow.

AWESOME video man!!!

Shanghai China is the only city in the world with a commercial maglev system. Germany and Japan only make prototypes, however the Shanghai Maglev is literally a clone of the German Transrapid 08.

I have just been there and I love the city!

I wouldn't want to fall asleep and miss my stop on this...

There is a speed readout in each carriage of the train (in kph) so the would've been using that to tell the speed. I went on this train 6 years ago now and it was the most amazing piece of 'public transport' I have ever seen!

wow, i could imagine if the future of high speed rail converted to maglev technology in Europe and other countries, with trains as good looking as the ones on rail.

What a nice comeback! very intelligent of you to say something like that. It doesn't change the fact that everything you do CAN harm other life forms, and i'm sorry if you have to remember me every time you do anything.

I saw one of these go by when I was in Shanghai...wish I could've taken one though. We were on the highway right next to it and it was insanely fast!!

Holy crap!!!! Man I wish they had this in America!!!

hey that was the coolest of the mag lev videos i've seen 'cause you even included the cost. and MPH... although who does MPH anymore... oh yeah..in the nothern hemisphere. thanks.

that is nice. i like the view of the passing objects. i'd like to see an 80X slow motion video of a train crashing at that speed lol

Im gonna ride the Maglev on next friday - after arriving on the CRH - oh, what fun

@Seres1091 But the technology was developed in Germany but the Chinese were the first to actually use it commercially. The company is called Transrapid

I was in Shanghai when they were planning this train, the government was clearing out many parts of the downtown area of all residents for development. Generations of residents were displaced with no say in the matter. On the other hand, the government had the line up and running within a year. In comparison, in the US it would probably take us a decade to build this in a major city.

High speed rail is the future of travel: clean, safe, and very fast. Their success in Europe and Asia is pushing the US to try for it, but the most difficult barrier is fighting off resistance from the airline and automobile industries.

damn, I wish I could ride one of those to work

oh by the way thanks for giving those without the opportunity to travel around the world have a glimpse of all these cool places^^

That is so cool...... Thank You

I went on this in the past summer. It's pretty crazy!

I cant believe myself that no one asked what song is that in the start. Its a good song =)

thats the point. the airport drive takes about 90 minutes with good traffic. And the terminal stop is not the outskirts, it's only 10 mins away from downtown.

excellent train service. 7 stars.

I live in Munich City and they just decided to finally built the latest Transrapid Maglev between Munich Airport and Central Station. It costs around 2 billion Euros. Which is like 2.8 Billion dollars. A maglev connection between Munich and Berlin would cost around 100 Billion Dollars.

man that train is awesome!!

In a passenger jet, except when taking off, you don't have the sensation of movement except internally from inertia. But looking out that window is mind-bending! It reminds me of the special effects from that famous movie "The Time Machine" where George Pal did the special effects: it looks like the view Rod Taylor sees as it rockets through time. Ha ha!

Wow! Can't wait to ride on that!

I've ridden this train several times. It is one of the funnest, most interesting trains in the world to ride on. And, the best thing is that it actually goes to/from places you want to go. Shanghai Airport to the Exposition Center and Subway Station. Too bad you did not get any shots of the First Class cabin... it almost looks like Spaceship Seats. Video attached.. my video is still in economy, but at the end I have a shot of First Class through the window.

@hevblade I will said it still take less energy than conventional train. 1st, because the conversion coefficient for maglev design is so high that conventional transmission may never able to achieve. 2nd, I think ground effect had also been utilize, so further lower the power demand when the train is cruising. (At least in theory)

It's a great video!

riding that thing is on my to-do list.

God, it's like looking into the future. I've never taken a maglev before, though all of relatives have in a trip to Shanghai.

been 'round the world twice man. believe my own experience!

they need one of these going from DC to Chicago. Imagine how many people would make the commute every day if it was only a 2.5 hour trip.

wow that's awesome. i'd love to ride that train

Wow, the vehicles you passed by seemed to be going backwards! Must be an awesome experience!

There is a test-track for the Transrapid near the place i live, in lower-saxony, Germany. I think it was developed by Siemens and Thyssen-Krupp.

absolutely amazing

Wow, I'd like to see theses in the states, especially the $8 round trip part.

Now that's the way to travel. Screw cars and planes, we just need trains and bikes.

Have been in this train a year ago when i was with holiday in china, greetings from Belgian Boy

Man...I rode the maglev in Shanghai last week, from town to Pudong. It topped out at 431 km/h, absolutely exhilerating.

beautiful and incredible

wow that was brilliant how come we dont have something that good......

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A crash @ 267mph would be spectacular

Due to high costs and safety concerns the top speeds in China have been reduced to 300 km/h (186 mph) from 1 July 2011

I'm so bummed out, was in Shanghai last year, and missed this experience. Moron. Just waiting for a chance to go back to test this. Also, Shanghai is such a great city, really love it.

Went on it yesterday, the reduced speeds are only at certain times in the day. We used it at 11:30 and it reached 431km/h, was great fun.

That was a train heading in the opposite direction. The pink purple flash was the reflection of the Sun on both trains.

we need that in the us. It take three hours just to go to DC from NYC. This might take less than half an hour

Well each 'slab' on the trackside at this point appears to be approx. 22m long and it takes around 0.85 seconds to cover each slab so that's somewhere between approx 57-62 mph so the guy's actually quite spot on with his guess. I suppose it's just the usual trick of the camera making it look faster than it is.

A group of people tried to build one between DC Union Station and Baltimore (also stopping at BWI) around 2000, but politicians thought it would cost to much and be too noisy (despite the fact it floats on magnets)

This is what we need to build in America for travel between cities that are not more than a few hundred miles apart. This is the answer to (a) highway congestion (b) airport congestion (c) excessive fossil fuel use which leads to greenhouse gases, increasing global temperature.

wow that is fast! I would love to take a ride in that.

People don't push for them..we like to drive alone in privacy in our cars.. If we all "came together" and pushed for this..they'd be built. That's the beauty of America.

i so want to do that now, that was awsome

i am not gonna lie. german engineering is just amazing

This is the future of travel

i've seen this train in action. friggin fast! i was on cab doing 70mph on my way to shanghai airport when the maglev train passed going near it's full speed a hundred meters away. holy sh!! i thought it was a low flying jet when it passed us initially.

It was am awesome experience being on that train. The funny thing is it doesn't have seat belts.

Amazing. This technology would work well on medium distance corridors in the U.S. Hopefully it will becoma reality in this decade.

hi just have come back from china and the maglev train is fast thing that i have traveled on WOW

AMAZING!

That's cool man. I said that before really knowing much about maglev technologies and how Japan is revolutionizing the technology to make it vastly superior.

it says in the credits its called "An introduction to ghosts" by Solvent

yes, it's a fantastic train - made in GERMANY. great video!

@RenfeFTW Did you know that Germany used to make counterfeit Singer sewing machines where they hid the 'made in Germany' mark underneath the machine? Did you also know that the US once allowed its citizens to patent inventions and products which originated in other parts of the world?

looks cool, i cant imagine all the bugs stuck on the windshield though, they must have to clean it alot

I wish we had these trains in the US. Amtrak trains are slow compared to this with their out-dated metal tracks. They need to upgrade. Countries like Japan and China are getting ahead of us technologically and we need to catch up.

@InspectorValter there are ferries form Hong Kong to Macau that go at these speeds too. I think the beetle from Fukuoka to Busan goes quite fast too.

400 km/h but it feels like going on autobahn with my audi at 200km/h

@Sp1nKsTaR An object in motion stays in motion unless acted on by an outside force. You are already moving at 270 mph, so when you jump, you are still moving at exactly the same speed as the train. So you fall down where you jumped.

I rode in the front of the monorail at Disneyworld a decade ago. It only went 45 miles an hour but it LOOKED a lot faster than Shanghai's. In fact, it LOOKED like it could go to the moon. But that's already been done. ALSO President Bush says it's Mars now. I don't know if Disneyworld's monorail LOOKS LIKE it can make it to Mars.

right now, thats changing dramatically.

This is the German Maglev train. Transrapid tested its usability in China and I hope soon they'll ride trough Germany too!

The United States needs one of these things to run along the I-5 from Seattle (or even Vancouver, Canada) to San Diego. I'm sure the the East Coast would greatly benefit from one as well.

MagLev trains exsist only in orsen wells books. This is a video someone took off of SimCity 4 Rush Hour. Simply someone riding their train in their city.

@Maxables it can easily be done on state level as in CA we're gonna build high speed rail from the Bay Area to LA

beautiful

Maglev cost about the same to build as an eightlane highway and takes about the same time to travel as a flight. All together is is more efficent and more ecologically friendly. This is one more example of how America needs to modernize and join the 21st Century. I want one in my garage.

Nice for you to share, thx

@DeadEND2012 USA have planes : where would you put those trains ? They need a dedicated track. The concept is interesting with "middle" distances such as 500 / 1000 km (considering that a train stops downtown as opposed to planes) , after that plane is faster. This leaves few options : Washington DC - NY - Boston ; San Francisco - L.A. ; maybe NYC - Cincinnati (Chicago is already too far) or Dallas - New Orleans or Galveston / S. Antonio / C. Christi. Or do I miss the point entirely ?