Drew Silver says the vision of the hover train story was "Edinburgh to London in 90 minutes with the most environmentally friendly transport you can imagine" A new documentary film will feature ...

The Central Japan Railway Company is testing a magnetically levitating train that can go up to 311 mph (500km/h). That’s more than twice the speed of the fastest bullet train currently operating in ...

A new documentary film will feature previously unseen footage of the testing of an ill-fated prototype "hover train". Filmmaker Drew Silver, from Littleport in Cambridgeshire, said he became ...

A Maglev train in Japan [JTB Photo\UIG/REX/Shutterstock] Plans for the “world’s fastest underground system” have been submitted with hopes that a “hover train ...

A LEVITATING train that could get the 30 miles from Liverpool to Manchester in just seven minutes is being considered by rail bosses. Transport company Direct City Networks (DCN) is developing a plan ...

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The French government is to pay half the cost of installing the world’s first overhead air cushion transport system. It will be powered by a linear electric motor. This was announced last week at a ...