Maglev Line Of Shanghai

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JUNE 7: (CHINA OUT; PHOTOCOME OUT) A Maglev train, also known as the magnetic levitation train, runs on a track on June 7, 2005 in Shanghai, China. Shanghai boasts the world's only commercial high-speed railway supported by maglev technology. The rail line, developed by Germany's Transrapid International Consortium, takes eight minutes to hurtle the 30 kilometres from Shanghai airport to the city's outskirts -- a journey which takes up to an hour by car. A magnetic charge lifts the train's sleek carriages, first of their kind in the world, one centimetre above the track. The train's top speed is 430 kilometres per hour. The Maglev line has impressed British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown as he rode the train in February this year. And British Prime Minister Tony Blair has held a seminar to consider building a Maglev route along the spine of Britain through Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle and Edinburgh. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)