The Linimo maglev in Nagoya Japan is the world's first urban maglev. This video shows the various switches and operations of this unique rail line.
愛知高速交通東部丘陵線 磁気浮上 リニモ
The HSST maglev technology used for the Linimo line was the first, the line opened in 2005. Both the Chinese and S Koreans developed their own "home grown" low speed maglev technology and opened their first lines in 2016 (Incheon Airport Maglev and Changsha Maglev Express). The Beijing urban maglev opened in 2007, and all 4 maglev systems look very similar to each other. After riding and walking along all four different systems (one in Japan, one in S Korea, and 2 in China) I like the quietness and speed of the Linimo Maglev in Japan. All the others mage a harsh scraping noise you can hear when on the sidewalk under or beside the track which I believe to be the electric pickup shoe scraping along the bus bar. The Linimo is absolutely quiet when swooshing past you at a constant speed. All of these maglev systems emit an electrical hum when speeding up or slowing down.
The top normal operating speed for the Linimo is 100km/h while the other maglevs operate at around 77km/h max. China is doing something exciting by increasing the speed to 160km/h (100mph). They have been testing this in Changsha this year and hopefully will put this higher speed in revenue service!
One final point I want to make is automatic verses manually driven. I love the fact that the Linimo maglev and the Incheon Maglev are automatic and have a wonderful panoramic glass windshield for riders to look out at the track ahead! I wish the maglev’s in China had this feature, but they are both manually driven and have a driver’s cab. In today’s world, there is no reason to have a driver on such a closed system where it doesn’t cross streets and all the platforms have the safety screen doors so there is no possibility of a passenger falling into the tracks.
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