Around the mid-20th century, trains were in trouble. After the first rail lines were laid in 1804 England, the locomotive’s ...

The hovertrain was a revolutionary idea that was tested in the 1960s and '70s in a few countries but was later abandoned and never became a reality. Like Elon Musk's proposed hyperloop of today, the ...

The hovertrain was a science fiction marvel that made its way into the real world. In the 1970s, manufacturers all over the United States and Europe were particularly interested in making them a ...

A railway museum is hoping to raise money to restore a prototype hovertrain first tested by the government in the 1960s. The Railworld museum in Peterborough has been storing the last known prototype ...

The RTV 31 hovertrain was expected to be even faster than Japan’s bullet train, but now it is rotting beside a railway line in Peterborough Christopher is the author of the novel The Wall In The Head ...

A campaign has been launched to save the RTV 31 hovertrain from being 'lost forever'. Drew Berry has been working to raise funds to save the RTV 31, which is currently kept at Railworld Wildlife Haven ...

A vision of high-speed train travel from the 1960s has been resurrected on film - after the discovery of rare archive footage. The 'hovertrain' was a pipedream poised to revolutionise public transport ...

Plans for a 300mph-plus "hovertrain" link which would cut cut journey times between between London and Glasgow to under two hours have taken a step forward. Magnetic "hovertrains" which would reach ...

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