Date |
Train |
Location |
Present location |
Comments |
Top speed (km/h) |
1969 / 1970 ? |
Transrapid 01 |
Munich |
Deutsches Museum, Munich |
By Krauss-Maffei. Indoor benchtop model. Only 600 mm long track. |
6 May 1971 |
MBB Prinzipfahrzeug |
MBB's Ottobrunn factory (near Munich), West Germany |
? |
By MBB. First passenger-carrying principle vehicle. 660 m test track. Prinzipfahrzeug=principle [demonstrator] vehicle. |
90 (1971) |
6 October 1971 |
Transrapid 02 |
Krauss-Maffei's plant in Munich - Allach, West Germany |
Krauss-Maffei, Munich |
By Krauss-Maffei. 930 m test track which included one curve. Displayed at Paris Expo from 4 June to 9 June 1973. |
164 (October 1971) |
16 August 1972 |
Transrapid 03 |
Munich |
Scrapped |
By Krauss-Maffei. Air-cushion vehicle (ACV or hovercraft) propelled by a linear motor. The system was abandoned in 1973 due to the too high noise generation and the too large consumption. Attempts in France (Aérotrain) and in the USA ([1]) led in the following years to similar decisions. 930 m test track. |
140 (September 1972) |
1972 / 1974 ? |
Erlangener Erprobungsträger (EET 01) |
Southern edge of Erlangen (near Nuremberg), West Germany |
? |
By Siemens and others. Electrodynamic suspension (EDS) (like JR-Maglev). Unmanned. 880 m circular track. Erlangener Erprobungsträger=Erlangen test carrier. |
160 / 230 (1974) ? |
20 December 1973 |
Transrapid 04 |
Munich - Allach, West Germany |
Technik Museum Speyer |
By Krauss-Maffei. |
250 (end 1973), 253.2 (21 November 1977) |
1974 / January 1975 ? |
Komponentenmeßträger (KOMET) |
Manching, West Germany |
? |
By MBB. Unmanned. 1300 m track. |
401.3 (1974) |
1975 |
HMB1 |
Thyssen Henschel in Kassel, West Germany |
? |
By Thyssen Henschel. First functional longstator vehicle. 100 m guideway. Unmanned. |
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1976 |
HMB2 |
Thyssen Henschel in Kassel, West Germany |
? |
By Thyssen Henschel. World's first passenger-carrying, longstator vehicle. 100 m guideway. |
36 (or 40 ?) |
17 May 1979 |
Transrapid 05 |
International Transportation Exhibition (IVA 79) in Hamburg. Reassembled in Kassel in 1980. |
ThyssenKrupp, Kassel |
908 m track. |
75 |
June 1983 |
Transrapid 06 |
Transrapid Versuchsanlage Emsland (TVE), West Germany |
A part is in Deutsches Museum, Bonn |
Presented to public in Munich on 13 March 1983. 31.5 km track. |
302 (1984), 355 (1985), 392 (1987), 406 (1987), 412.6 (January 1988) |
1988 |
Transrapid 07 |
Transrapid Versuchsanlage Emsland (TVE), West Germany |
Munich International Airport and Infozentrum Lathen (TVE Emsland) |
Presented to public at the International Transportation Exhibition (IVA 88) in Hamburg. |
436 (1989), 450 (17 June 1993) |
August 1999 |
Transrapid 08 |
Transrapid Versuchsanlage Emsland (TVE), Germany |
Destroyed 22 September 2006 in accident |
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2002 |
Transrapid SMT |
Shanghai Maglev Train, China |
Shanghai, China |
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501 (12 November 2003) |
2007 |
Transrapid 09 |
Transrapid Versuchsanlage Emsland (TVE), Germany |
? |
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