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> The Emsland test facility was the only Transrapid track in Germany.[citation needed] It has been deactivated, and is scheduled to be disassembled.

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GP was certainly referring to the Shanghai line, which feels much closer to put into service and to never put into service than one should reasonably consider possible at the same time.

I sure hope the Shanghai line is not using 40 year old technology.

Probably didn't see much modernization in the 20 years since it was opened. The trains in operation are two prototype iterations more advanced than the TR 06 from 1983, but differences to the TR 08 aren't bigger than differences between variations of the same high speed trains stools to different countries.

I was talking about the German Transrapid 06 but probably misread... will double check next time, sorry.

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