{"id":410381,"date":"2025-09-09T12:09:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410381\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T12:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:09:13","slug":"germanys-only-dedicated-hs-maglev-test-track-will-be-gone-within-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410381\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s only dedicated HS maglev test track will be gone \u2018within a decade\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Out with the old&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Germany has confirmed it will dismantle the Transrapid test facility in Emsland by 2034, bringing an end to a site once central to its high-speed maglev ambitions. The decision comes as politicians are increasingly backing new maglev and Hyperloop pilots, raising the question of why proven technology is being dismantled while relatively untested concepts are gathering sudden momentum.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tSubscribe to gain access to all news<\/p>\n<p>Already have a subscription? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railtech.com\/login\/?redirect_to=%2Fall%2F2025%2F09%2F09%2Fgermanys-only-dedicated-hs-maglev-test-track-will-be-gone-within-a-decade%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Log in<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tChoose your subscription<\/p>\n<p>Or<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tWant to read this article for free?<\/p>\n<p>You can read <strong>one free article per month<\/strong>. Enter your email and we&#8217;ll send you a free link to access the full article. No payment required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Out with the old&#8230; Germany has confirmed it will dismantle the Transrapid test facility in Emsland by 2034,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[12269,8386,2000,299,1824,141212,141213,141214,141215,12823,87305,141216,141217],"class_list":{"0":"post-410381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-bundestag","9":"tag-cdu","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-hyperloop","14":"tag-maglev","15":"tag-max-bogl","16":"tag-raed-saleh","17":"tag-spd","18":"tag-technical-university-of-munich","19":"tag-transrapid","20":"tag-ute-bonde"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115174268489627560","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}