THE MOST MODERN TRAIN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 28, 25 May 1914, Page 4

THE MOST MODERN TRAIN.

Leading rCnglish newspapers are giving some attention to what is well termed a miracle of science. They secret experiments have been conducted by Emile Bachelat, an old Frenchman, who has long been resident in the United States, which have produced a railway system which permits a speed of 300 miles an hour. Each car is made of steel, with an aluminium base, and this metal, suffering from magnetic repulsion by means of electro magnets which are situated under the track, holds the cars suspended in the air. Then a series of solenoids along the track, which are successively electrically magnetised, pull the suspended car along at a terrific speech The inventor says that it will be possible to do the present journey from London to Manchester in 48 minutes instead of four hours, and London to Glasgow in ' 75 minutes instead of eight and a-half hours. Experiments with large-sized models have so impressed the railway experts that M. Bachelat has been offered the use of a circuit within five miles of London in order to test the practicability of his invention. The "Daily Express" comments upon the affair, and says that it formed the material for another "Arabian Nights" or a Jules Verne novel. "It may seem madness to some and blasphemy to others, but unless expectations are falsified a new era has begun."