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The headline picture of Sina.com.cn caught my attention at 21:50, when I reviewed today's news in my living room. (This is maybe one of the 3 times I checked Sina this month, instead of daily one year ago). The news is about Maglev, my favorite topic.
This time, it is bad news. Maglev caught fire! According to the news:
At 2:40 PM, when the train left Long Yang Road Station to Pudong Airport, the fire alarm of one cart of the train was triggered. The fire was quickly put off, and all passengers was rescued.
What a piece of surprising news! This may strongly hit people's confidence about the Hangzhou-Shanghai Maglev Line.
Here are the pictures from the news website.
Image credit: Sina news
Image credit: Sina news
Image credit: Sina news
Image credit: Sina news
The ladder (from the first cart on the right), and the rescue tube (the middle cart) are interesting. It is not easy to rescue from that a high place.
What a coincident that Maglev just held the rehearsal for fire emergency (CN) in May this year. It seemed to help.
Accident to this kind of high-tech train raise passengers' concerns as much as problems of a aircraft... How bad it is!
Posted by Jian Shuo Wang at August 11, 2006 10:56 PM
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Posted by: solopolo on August 12, 2006 1:24 AMDoesn't seem to be a terrorist attack at all.
Very minor damages.
Posted by: Alex Langos on August 12, 2006 11:25 AMHello Gary,
Just in case you are planning to take the Maglev..... it caught fire yesterday.....
John
I will be more sensitive next time if someone invite me to Maglev
Posted by: yee (external link) on August 13, 2006 2:19 AMSo, any news on what happened already?
Here in german press they state that the fire was more dangerous than expected in the first moment!!!
Is the burnt vehicle still standing on the track? or did they remove it already?
Posted by: chris on August 14, 2006 8:16 PMreading news from Shanghai, the damaged Maglev train has to be repaired same spot on the track where it was burnt. Looks like it has a serious fault in its designs. Obviously the Maglev service to airport is also suspended.
http://www.news365.com.cn/gdtp/200608/t20060815_1064672.htm
Posted by: stephen on August 18, 2006 12:44 AMWell, rather chicken remarks all... And great there are so many experts here! Zillions of Deutschmark are invested in this technology, and yes things fail because humans make mistakes. Doesn't make the technology bad.
And Gary... the chances that it will happen again are now just reduced with at least a factor 10. Now they know what can happen why and what causes it, so from now on it will be part of the daily routine to check that up as well.
I'm about to take the maglev now... And in a few hours again. And I''m looking forward to it I can tell you. Fire or no fire
Posted by: jos on October 21, 2006 7:40 AM