| | <table class="wikitable"> |
| | <tr> |
| | <th>Date</th> |
| | <th>Train</th> |
| | <th>Location</th> |
| | <th>Present location</th> |
| | <th>Comments</th> |
| | <th>Top speed (km/h)</th> |
| | </tr> |
| | <tr> |
| | <td>1969 / 1970 ?</td> |
| | <td>Transrapid 01</td> |
| | <td><a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich" title="Munich">Munich</a></td> |
| | <td><a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsches_Museum" title="Deutsches Museum">Deutsches Museum</a>, <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich" title="Munich">Munich</a></td> |
| | <td>By <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krauss-Maffei" title="Krauss-Maffei">Krauss-Maffei</a>. Indoor benchtop model. Only 600 mm long track.</td> |
| | </tr> |
| | <tr> |
| | <td>6 May 1971</td> |
| | <td><a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt-B%C3%B6lkow-Blohm" title="Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm">MBB</a> Prinzipfahrzeug</td> |
| | <td>MBB's <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottobrunn" title="Ottobrunn">Ottobrunn</a> factory (near <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich" title="Munich">Munich</a>), <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Germany" title="West Germany">West Germany</a></td> |
| | <td> ?</td> |
| | <td>By MBB. First passenger-carrying principle vehicle. 660 m test track. <i>Prinzipfahrzeug</i>=principle [demonstrator] vehicle.</td> |
| | <td>90 (1971)</td> |
| | </tr> |
| | <tr> |
| | <td>6 October 1971</td> |
| | <td>Transrapid 02</td> |
| | <td><a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krauss-Maffei" title="Krauss-Maffei">Krauss-Maffei</a>'s plant in <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich" title="Munich">Munich</a> - <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allach" title="Allach">Allach</a>, West Germany</td> |
| | <td><a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krauss-Maffei" title="Krauss-Maffei">Krauss-Maffei</a>, Munich</td> |
| | <td>By Krauss-Maffei. 930 m test track which included one curve. Displayed at Paris Expo from 4 June to 9 June 1973.</td> |
| | <td>164 (October 1971)</td> |
| | </tr> |
| | <tr> |
| | <td>16 August 1972</td> |
| | <td>Transrapid 03</td> |
| | <td><a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich" title="Munich">Munich</a></td> |
| | <td>Scrapped</td> |
| | <td>By Krauss-Maffei. <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_train" title="Ground effect train">Air-cushion vehicle</a> (ACV or <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hovercraft" title="Hovercraft">hovercraft</a>) propelled by a linear motor. The system was abandoned in 1973 due to the too high noise generation and the too large consumption. Attempts in France (<a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C3%A9rotrain" title="Aérotrain">Aérotrain</a>) and in the USA (<a class="external autonumber" href="http://www.shonner.com/aerotrain/" rel="nofollow">[1]</a>) led in the following years to similar decisions. 930 m test track.</td> |
| | <td>140 (September 1972)</td> |
| | </tr> |
| | <tr> |
| | <td>1972 / 1974 ?</td> |
| | <td>Erlangener Erprobungsträger (EET 01)</td> |
| | <td>Southern edge of <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlangen" title="Erlangen">Erlangen</a> (near <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg" title="Nuremberg">Nuremberg</a>), West Germany</td> |
| | <td> ?</td> |
| | <td>By <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens" title="Siemens">Siemens</a> and others. Electrodynamic suspension (EDS) (like <a class="mw-redirect" href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JR-Maglev" title="JR-Maglev">JR-Maglev</a>). Unmanned. 880 m circular track. <i>Erlangener Erprobungsträger</i>=Erlangen test carrier.</td> |
| | <td>160 / 230 (1974) ?</td> |
| | </tr> |
| | <tr> |
| | <td>20 December 1973</td> |
| | <td>Transrapid 04</td> |
| | <td>Munich - Allach, West Germany</td> |
| | <td><a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technik_Museum_Speyer" title="Technik Museum Speyer">Technik Museum Speyer</a></td> |
| | <td>By Krauss-Maffei.</td> |
| | <td>250 (end 1973), 253.2 (21 November 1977)</td> |
| | </tr> |
| | <tr> |
| | <td>1974 / January 1975 ?</td> |
| | <td>Komponentenmeßträger (KOMET)</td> |
| | <td><a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manching" title="Manching">Manching</a>, West Germany</td> |
| | <td> ?</td> |
| | <td>By MBB. Unmanned. 1300 m track.</td> |
| | <td>401.3 (1974)</td> |
| | </tr> |
| | <tr> |
| | <td>1975</td> |
| | <td>HMB1</td> |
| | <td><a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyssen-Henschel" title="Thyssen-Henschel">Thyssen Henschel</a> in <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kassel" title="Kassel">Kassel</a>, West Germany</td> |
| | <td> ?</td> |
| | <td>By <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyssen-Henschel" title="Thyssen-Henschel">Thyssen Henschel</a>. First functional longstator vehicle. 100 m guideway. Unmanned.</td> |
| | <td></td> |
| | </tr> |
| | <tr> |
| | <td>1976</td> |
| | <td>HMB2</td> |
| | <td>Thyssen Henschel in <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kassel" title="Kassel">Kassel</a>, West Germany</td> |
| | <td> ?</td> |
| | <td>By Thyssen Henschel. World's first passenger-carrying, longstator vehicle. 100 m guideway.</td> |
| | <td>36 (or 40 ?)</td> |
| | </tr> |
| | <tr> |
| | <td>17 May 1979</td> |
| | <td>Transrapid 05</td> |
| | <td><a class="extiw" href="//de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationale_Verkehrsausstellung" title="de:Internationale Verkehrsausstellung">International Transportation Exhibition</a> (IVA 79) in <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg" title="Hamburg">Hamburg</a>. Reassembled in <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kassel" title="Kassel">Kassel</a> in 1980.</td> |
| | <td><a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThyssenKrupp" title="ThyssenKrupp">ThyssenKrupp</a>, <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kassel" title="Kassel">Kassel</a></td> |
| | <td>908 m track.</td> |
| | <td>75</td> |
| | </tr> |
| | <tr> |
| | <td>June 1983</td> |
| | <td>Transrapid 06</td> |
| | <td><a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emsland_test_facility" title="Emsland test facility">Transrapid Versuchsanlage Emsland</a> (TVE), West Germany</td> |
| | <td>A part is in <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsches_Museum" title="Deutsches Museum">Deutsches Museum</a>, <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonn" title="Bonn">Bonn</a></td> |
| | <td>Presented to public in <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich" title="Munich">Munich</a> on 13 March 1983. 31.5 km track.</td> |
| | <td>302 (1984), 355 (1985), 392 (1987), 406 (1987), 412.6 (January 1988)</td> |
| | </tr> |
| | <tr> |
| | <td>1988</td> |
| | <td>Transrapid 07</td> |
| | <td>Transrapid Versuchsanlage Emsland (TVE), West Germany</td> |
| | <td><a class="mw-redirect" href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_International_Airport" title="Munich International Airport">Munich International Airport</a> and Infozentrum Lathen (TVE <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emsland" title="Emsland">Emsland</a>)</td> |
| | <td>Presented to public at the International Transportation Exhibition (IVA 88) in Hamburg.</td> |
| | <td>436 (1989), 450 (17 June 1993)</td> |
| | </tr> |
| | <tr> |
| | <td>August 1999</td> |
| | <td>Transrapid 08</td> |
| | <td>Transrapid Versuchsanlage Emsland (TVE), <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a></td> |
| | <td>Destroyed 22 September 2006 in <a class="mw-redirect" href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Lathen_maglev_train_accident" title="2006 Lathen maglev train accident">accident</a></td> |
| | <td></td> |
| | <td></td> |
| | </tr> |
| | <tr> |
| | <td>2002</td> |
| | <td>Transrapid SMT</td> |
| | <td><a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Maglev_Train" title="Shanghai Maglev Train">Shanghai Maglev Train</a>, <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China" title="China">China</a></td> |
| | <td>Shanghai, China</td> |
| | <td></td> |
| | <td>501 (12 November 2003)</td> |
| | </tr> |
| | <tr> |
| | <td>2007</td> |
| | <td>Transrapid 09</td> |
| | <td>Transrapid Versuchsanlage Emsland (TVE), Germany</td> |
| | <td> ?</td> |
| | <td></td> |
| | <td></td> |
| | </tr> |
| | </table> |
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