Flash Train floating on rails

utrecht - A 'train air cushion' that floats above the existing rails, may be an excellent alternative to the existing high-speed trains. Even future maglev trains can remain on the drawing board, because before that should be adjusted throughout the infrastructure.

End of next year all Atrain (A stands for 'air') is on a trial with more than 400 km / h whiz about the current railway line. Professor Dollevoet TU Delft rides the air cushion train on solar energy and additionally at much lower cost than the current trains.

On the track scholarship Rail Tech Europe in Utrecht showed ProRail boss Pier Eringa is strongly in favor of far-reaching reforms. 'We must show balls and sexy again. The railways have slipped into a sleepy, conservative sector, 'he says.