Tehran - Nearly two years after the disaster at the Transrapid test track (23 deaths) in Lathen, there is new hope for a successful future of the maglev.
Iran has instructed the Munich-based engineering firm Schlegel with the planning of a 800-kilometer route.
The Iranian route is to connect the capital Tehran to the pilgrimage city of Mashad. Currently run by Iran's information here about 20 million passengers per year. The journey for dieBusse currently amounts to here about two days and for conventional trains nearly nine hours. The Transrapid will only need three hours. Mashad is a major Shiite pilgrimage.
The project in Iran has a circumference of about twelve billion euros, the line will be ready in eight years.
The engineering firm will now try to act as the companies Siemens and ThyssenKrupp Transrapid holders of patents and licenses to get on board. should be funded the project, according to Klein of Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Thyssen Krupp Werner Bechtel spokesman said: "We are aware of an agreement with Iran, nothing." About possible opportunities for eineMitwirkung in the project he wanted to say not.
Siemens spokesman Peter Gottal said: "We do not know the project. With us, no one has spoken." It understands the railway from Tehran to Mashad but would just electrified. The blade is not as if there was a planned Transrapid.
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