China is home to the world’s largest high-speed rail network, which stretches over 37,000 kilometers, and the fastest commercially operating train – the Shanghai maglev. The country’s first ...

And Shanghai has since added a four-hour, 800-mile Maglev train line from Shanghai to Beijing. For the Shanghai airport line, each train carries 574 passengers, and one leaves every 15 minutes.

SHANGHAI, China (CNN) --Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji and visiting German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder cut the ribbon to start the trial operation of Shanghai's glistening new maglev train Tuesday ...

It's simple: The Shanghai Maglev is one of the fastest passenger trains in the world. Traveling at about 270 miles per hour, this train is the adult equivalent of the theme park ride, especially ...

The 31.8-km maglev train line, linking the two international airports in Pudong and Hongqiao, is part of the infrastructure network in Shanghai, Han said. However, the construction was shelved in ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. With a top speed of 430kph, Shanghai’s Maglev – or magnetic levitation – train is one of the symbols ...

the Shangai maglev train (SMT), which has a maximum cruising speed of 431mph. It connects an 18.6-mile journey from the Shangai Pudong International Airport to Longyang Road station in just over ...

China is home to the world’s largest high-speed rail network, which stretches over 37,000 kilometers, and the fastest commercially operating train – the Shanghai maglev. The country’s first ...