The RTV 31 hovertrain was expected to be even faster than Japan’s bullet train, but now it is rotting beside a railway line ...

The hovertrain was a science fiction marvel that made its way into the real world. In the 1970s, manufacturers all over the United States and Europe were particularly interested in making them a ...

The hovertrain was a revolutionary idea that was tested in the 1960s and '70s in a few countries but was later abandoned and never became a reality. Like Elon Musk's proposed hyperloop of today, the ...

It was the futuristic solution to growing congestion on the roads: a hovertrain which could travel at 300mph. The plan, which was dreamed up in 1967 during Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson's time ...

A campaign has been launched to save the RTV 31 hovertrain from being 'lost forever'. Drew Berry has been working to raise funds to save the RTV 31, which is currently kept at Railworld Wildlife Haven ...

A museum is hoping to raise money to preserve a hovertrain that threatened to revolutionise travel in the 1960s. The monorail transport was an elevated, high speed hovertrain that was tested on a ...

A vision of high-speed train travel from the 1960s has been resurrected on film - after the discovery of rare archive footage. The 'hovertrain' was a pipedream poised to revolutionise public transport ...

A set of discarded hovertrain prototypes is owned by the Pueblo (Colorado) Railway Foundation. Makers like Grumman, now Northrop Grumman, have moved on to a variety of projects. Hovertrains didn't ...

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Spacetrain – launched by Emeuric Gleizes in 2017 – is developing a high-speed shuttle inspired by the Aerotrain, which is a hovertrain concept birthed by Jean Bertin in 1970 but later abandoned for ...

A vision of high-speed train travel from the 1960s has been resurrected on film - after the discovery of rare archive footage. The 'hovertrain' was a pipedream poised to revolutionise public transport ...