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High-speed railways

Is Richard Branson’s high-speed train in a pneumatic tube pie in the sky?

December 25, 2019October 24, 2017 by Editorial Team

First airlines, then spaceships. Now the Virgin boss wants to build Hyperloop One – a high-speed, pneumatic maglev railway. But engineering experts doubt that it will ever leave the station

Categories Automotive, Business, DRIVE Tags Article, business, Discover, Elon Musk, Engineering, Features, futuristic transport, High-speed railways, high-speed train, Hyperloop, Hyperloop Alpha, Hyperloop One, Nic Fleming, Observer New Review, Rail industry, Rail transport, Richard Branson, Richard Branson investment, Richard Branson Transport, Science, Silicon Valley, SpaceX, sustainable transport, Technology, Tesla, The New Review, The Observer, Transport, UK news, Virgin Group, World news

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