Magnetic levitation train could be built in Munich despite crash
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A magnetic levitation Transrapid train line could still be built in the southern German city of Munich despite the accident last week in which 23 people were killed, a regional politician said.
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Engineers have been trying for decades to perfect and promote the use of powerful electromagnets to suspend trains above their tracks so they can travel as fast as some airplanes.
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TOKYO -- A Japanese railroad will invest $3.1 billion to develop high-speed magnetic trains over the next decade, the company said yesterday, days after a crash of an experimental magnetic train in Germany killed 23 people.
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A train carrying hazardous materials derailed in an industrial park Friday but none of the materials leaked, authorities said.
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A high speed Tilt Train derailed in south-east Queensland for unknown reasons overnight, injuring 128. There were no fatalities and the two train drivers, originally thought to have been critically injured
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Germany's national railway, Deutsche Bahn, said Friday it had reached an agreement with the Transport Ministry to open an exhibition documenting its predecessor's role in the Holocaust.
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Bavarian officials have found funds to build a magnetic levitation train with the backing of industrial groups, but more than half the region&#39;s residents oppose the futuristic and already fatal project.
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A high-speed magnetic train ran off the track during a test Friday in western Germany, killing one person and injuring several more. The accident left the Transrapid magnetic train "hanging halfway off" the track and passengers were still inside, said Helge Nestler, a police spokesman in Osnabrueck.
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Munich Re, the world&#39;s largest reinsurer, forecast less than 100 million euros ($136 million) in claims from the earthquake that sent 33-foot (10 meter) waves crashing into coastlines from Thailand to India.
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German investigators were  trying on Saturday to discover why a high-speed magnetic  levitation train crashed into a maintenance vehicle on its  elevated track, killing 23 people and injuring 10.
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Commuters used to using the East Gate at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, should be prepared for traffic disruptions later this week.
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I'm totally stressed out - German commuter this morning BERLIN (EuroNews) - More travel chaos is expected in Germany as a locomotive engineers' strike threatens to disrupt regional services.The latest and biggest in a series of strikes began at two o'clock in the morning local time and is to end at eight o'clock on Friday morning. Commuters in the east of the country and Berlin are particularly affected. "I'm totally stressed out" said one woman. "I have been here since six a.m. I was supposed to travel to Hof, but I can only get to Nuremburg and I have to wait for a train at 7.23." The engineers want a pay increase of around 30 percent and their own working contract. Their dispute with state rail company Deutsche Bahn has already lasted several months.
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THE MUNICH City Council is set to press ahead with a huge Linux project, despite fears of future patent problems. According to Reuters, the council is expected to take a calculated risk and approve the switch
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Germany comes up with the funds to build a high-speed, magnetic levitation, rail service in Munich
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An inquiry is launched into a collision involving a magnetic train that killed 23 people in Germany.
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The train is becoming an attractive option for business travelers in Europe.
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Accident investigators said Monday that their preliminary probe into a fatal high-speed train derailment was focusing on a pair of points just ahead of the site.