This topic seems to parallel with the other one about supersonic passenger aircraft.
I recently saw a YouTube video on the topic, which I thought was quite well done:
The Fastest Train Ever Built: The SCMaglev
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So, there's no doubt that this thing is fast. (Should be about to travel at about 500 kmh and go from Tokyo to Nagoya in 40 minutes and to Osaka in 67 minutes). But it's expensive and uses more power (about 4 times as much) as well as carrying fewer passengers because the cabin isn't as wide as conventional high speed rail. Also, there's issues that mean you need a longer interval between trains. They have to be like 10 minutes apart instead of 3 minutes. (Maybe that's not a huge issue though, depending on how much demand there is.)
But it is being built. It might even be operational by the end of this decade.
Worth it, or too expensive? (I'm not having an easy time finding out what the total cost for this all is expected to be, but much of the planned route will go through tunnels and the stations will also likely be deep underground.)
BTW, the "SC" in SCMaglev stands for superconducting.
I recently saw a YouTube video on the topic, which I thought was quite well done:
The Fastest Train Ever Built: The SCMaglev
[yt]-MmcQKE12Hg[/yt]
So, there's no doubt that this thing is fast. (Should be about to travel at about 500 kmh and go from Tokyo to Nagoya in 40 minutes and to Osaka in 67 minutes). But it's expensive and uses more power (about 4 times as much) as well as carrying fewer passengers because the cabin isn't as wide as conventional high speed rail. Also, there's issues that mean you need a longer interval between trains. They have to be like 10 minutes apart instead of 3 minutes. (Maybe that's not a huge issue though, depending on how much demand there is.)
But it is being built. It might even be operational by the end of this decade.
Worth it, or too expensive? (I'm not having an easy time finding out what the total cost for this all is expected to be, but much of the planned route will go through tunnels and the stations will also likely be deep underground.)
BTW, the "SC" in SCMaglev stands for superconducting.
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