I'm really not sure why the Chinese brought in the Germans to make this train. It runs on magnents for about 6 minutes. The line runs from the airport to a connection of a subway station. That's it, one stop. The only reason I could think of to build such a contraption was that the world fair was coming.
Oh yeah, maybe build it since, damn, it's cool. The thing runs at a top speed of 430 km/hr which apparently makes it the fastest train in the world. However, when I was on it the fastest speed we reached was 301 km/hr.
I took this video on my Blackberry. We were coming from the Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG) to the Pudong side of Shanghai.
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