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| posted on November 2nd, 2008 at 11:39 PM |
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Pretty bloody amazing - Shanghai Maglev
Just had another week in China - 3 days Shanghai and 2 back in Beijing. Took the Maglev (Magnetic Levitation) train from outside Shanghai to the
Airport. I reckon the pics speak for themselves.
Pretty continual acceleration, over a 4 minute period, and a 20 km trip over in 7 mins. Now if the state government could only look a few more years
into the future, Canberra and Newcastle would be between 30-60 min trip into Sydney. Now that, would solve any population problems. I don't care how
they fund it, and with regular services, would see them keep the price down.
Hmmm...now to awake someone with a vision.
Check the start time....
...and the time now.
I'll load up a video tomorrow.
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| posted on November 3rd, 2008 at 05:59 AM |
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infrastructure in Australia has to problems distance and population (tax base). Shanghai has about the same amount of people as ALL of Australia so
these projects are effective for regular usage and ongoing maintenance. Would be nice though
Customer service is not dead in Australia.
Always after HAZET & MATRA & VW factory tools
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| posted on November 3rd, 2008 at 07:30 AM |
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yes its great i went on it in May 2006 n have similar pics
did u stick yr head aginst the window when the train was coming the other way
theres a BIG shock wave
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| posted on November 3rd, 2008 at 08:10 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
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yes its great i went on it in May 2006 n have similar pics
did u stick yr head aginst the window when the train was coming the other way
theres a BIG shock wave
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Yes Dave scared the crap out of me. It was like BANG, and it was past us.
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| posted on November 3rd, 2008 at 08:34 AM |
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Vid now up....the cars being overtaken in the far lanes are doing about 100 kmph.
http://s2.photobucket.com/albums/y38/squizy/?action=view¤t=Shanghai...
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| posted on November 3rd, 2008 at 09:17 AM |
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awesome, but definately not the senic route
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| posted on November 3rd, 2008 at 10:53 AM |
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the other thing is we were on the bus going to the airport along that freeway which took about 50 minutes or so and i said to all the guys
keep an eye out for the train we saw it go past twice while we were on the freeway
we told out tour guide to include it as part of the tour of Shanghai
but they couldnt understand why ( dumb shits )
did you go up the Jin Mao tower 88 stories
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| posted on November 3rd, 2008 at 10:59 AM |
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did you go up the Jin Mao tower 88 stories
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Unfortunately not. Too much to squeeze into 3 days and nights. Summit in the day, dinners at night. Managed two hours of shopping under the museum and
that was it. It was also pretty smoggy, hazy, and drizzly, so visibility was crap.
The interesting part was getting accosted by prostitutes 5 times in the first 3 mins after exiting the hotel after landing.
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