Shanghai Maglev @ 431km/h (268mph) // World's fastest train!

Come take a ride with me on the Shanghai Maglev. The world's fastest commercially operating train. It operates at a top speed of 431KPH/268MPH. I made the 30km/18.6mi journey from Longyang Road Station to Shanghai's Pudong International Airport in just under 7.5 minutes.
If you skip to the 4:50 mark, you'll see two maglev trains passing each other at 350kph/217mph!

[Martin]

Just watched it at 2x speed so I could see what it would be like at 862 km/h.

[tianyi]

Shanghai Maglev uses deceleration glass.The glass is curved so that passengers don't feel dizzy when they look out the window.

[hedwards]

All the cars on the side of the road seems to be at a complete stand still because of how fast the train was travelling. It covers an entire city within seconds. Even trying count the amount of football fields it could cover within seconds was astonishing! This is truly an engineering marvel.

[khspavan]

4:50 when two trains are crossing each other I am getting Goosebumps to watch.

[mukul]

I went to Sanghai, China to take part in an international exibition and have experienced the Maglev ride. It attended the highest speed of 433 KM/hr. A digital speedometer shows the speed of the Maglev on every compartment. It was nice to watch high speed semi circular motion of the outfields through the window while attaining such huge speed.

[KGopidas]

The greenery along the path is equally impressive

[duvidl]

When those two trains passed each other at 4:37 I nearly jumped of my couch.

[billpritchard]

Great film, just what I wanted, no commentary needed, speaks for itself, when it began to accelerate I thought we were taking off, no vibration, you could hear people chattering, this was a great example of British invention together with Chinese application and German cognicence. We are truly the way ahead. Well done, great film and always, keep it simple!

[andremanicke]

82 s from 0 to 200, 90 s from 200 to 400. Hence almost no slowing down/less acceleration despite the speed.
Been in that train in 2017, it was simply mindblowing.

[Victor-tldk]

Fun fact: at that speed the average 150 pound human has almost 1.2 times the energy of an average car going at 70 mph

[bklyncyclist]

I rode this 2 years ago and it was pretty cool, whether this is the absolute fastest or not. My colleagues were taking a taxi to the airport from West Nanjing district and I took the metro and the maglev. It had been a long 2 weeks in Shanghai and I just couldn't convince them it would be worth the experience. I beat them to the airport even though I had to walk to the metro with my suitcase, and I just missed the maglev and had to wait for the next. I was at the airport check in when they came up to me having just arrived themselves. It was still a flight back to NYC.

[keithwilliams]

We need this type of transportation in Texas ASAP! Dallas and Houston, Houston and San Antonio and San Antonio and Dallas/Fort Worth, TX. This would take a lot of traffic off of the interstate highways connecting these large metro areas.

[thomas]

128 mph is just where the car start to feel light on the tires, the road get very narrow, and everything is bouncing around. this thing would still blow by you like you were standing still.
amazing how stable and smooth the ride is just a hum. Just like a airplane before liftoff. Or coming down. I rode the bullet train over the country side and farmland and lakes and along the ocean in Japan that was best ride ever.

[johnbonham]

I lived in this area of PuDong for about 4 years and I've been on this trip to the airport about a dozen times or so. Sometimes the two trains pass each other at top speed so the resultant velocity is 860 to 870 km/hour. What I found was quite an experience was being on the ground, under the overhead mono rail when the train past over. On the ground, it is quite a thing to see too!!!

[fbager]

Great!! Best video on YouTube from inside the train I think!

[johannkruschwitz]

For everyone who doesn’t know: the Shanghai maglev was actually a project by Germany to revolutionize trains it was called the “trans rapid”. But the Projekt wasn’t economically viable so the discontinued it. The Shanghai maglev was the only export version they ever made of it.

[PlanesTrainsEverything]

Absolutely amazing train and the journey was well captured.

[debbee]

Incredible train! I'm coming to Shanghai in a few days and this is at the top of my list of things to do! The passing train really gives you a sense of the speed like nothing else. China is amazing! I live in Hong Kong and have traveled all over China and it never ceases to amaze me!

[asitmajumdereagleroutetracker]

Just awesome heart 💕 touching speed 🔥love from India🇮🇳

[richiesquest]

This makes travelling by car look so dated.