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How Maglev
Trains Work

Introduction
If you've been to an airport lately, you've probably noticed that air
travel is becoming increasingly congested. Despite frequent
delays, airplanes still provide the fastest way to travel hundreds or
thousands of miles. Passenger air travel revolutionized the
transportation industry in the last century, letting people traverse
great distances in a matter of hours instead of days or weeks.
A few countries are using powerful electromagnets to develop highspeed trains, called maglev trains.

 This one of the Maglev trains ,this photo was taken in

Japan and the maxim speed was like 300 mhp or 500
km/h. This is one of the fastest trains in the world and it
was made by Siemens and ThyssenKrupp.

Electromagnetic
Suspension (EMS)
If you've ever played with magnets, you know that
opposite poles attract and like poles repel each other. This
is the basic principle behind electromagnetic propulsion.
Electromagnets are similar to other magnets in that they
attract metal objects, but the magnetic pull is temporary.
As you can read about in How Electromagnets Work, you
can easily create a small electromagnet yourself by
connecting the ends of a copper wire to the positive and
negative ends of an AA, C or D-cell battery. This creates
a small magnetic field. If you disconnect either end of the
wire from the battery, the magnetic field is taken away.

 This is how the Maglev trains work ,the principle that

make them have such a extrodinar speed and help people
move from a place to another very fast.

Electrodynamic
suspension
In electrodynamic suspension (EDS), both the guideway and the train
exert a magnetic field, and the train is levitated by the repulsive and
attractive force between these magnetic fields. In some configurations,
the train can be levitated only by repulsive force. In the early stages of
maglev development at the Miyazaki test track, a purely repulsive
system was used instead of the later repulsive and attractive EDS
system.
The magnetic field is produced either by superconducting magnets (as
in JRMaglev) or by an array of permanent magnets (as in Inductrack).
The repulsive and attractive force in the track is created by an induced
magnetic field in wires or other conducting strips in the track

 This is the principle that now the trains in Japan can be so

fast and this new tehnology of Maglev trains with
Electrodynamic suspension can make our travel shorter
and also a safe one.

 We found that Romania is in a project which involves

Maglev railway stations, this project is announced by
China and this railway will make the conection between
China and Europe , for now we are just talking about a
new project there is nothing concrete. We can dream and
we can think about how will look Romania in a couple o
years with a Maglev railway station.

 Bibliography:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/transport/enginesequipment/maglev-train.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev