Editing Transrapid (section)

==Development history and versions==
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! Date !! Train !! Location !! Present location !! Comments !! Top speed (km/h)
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|| 1969 / 1970 ? || Transrapid 01 || [[Munich]] || [[Deutsches Museum]], Munich || By [[Krauss-Maffei]]. Indoor benchtop model. Only 600&nbsp;mm long track. || 
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|| 6 May 1971 || [[Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm|MBB]] Prinzipfahrzeug || MBB's [[Ottobrunn]] factory (near [[Munich]]), Germany || [[Freilassing Locomotive World]] || By MBB. First passenger-carrying principle vehicle. 660 m test track. ''Prinzipfahrzeug''=principle [demonstrator] vehicle. || 90 (1971)
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|| 6 October 1971 || Transrapid 02 || [[Krauss-Maffei]]'s plant in [[Munich]] - [[Allach-Untermenzing|Allach]], Germany || [[Krauss-Maffei]], Munich || By Krauss-Maffei. 930 m test track which included one curve. Displayed at Paris Expo from 4 June to 9 June 1973. || 164 (October 1971)
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|| 16 August 1972 || Transrapid 03 || [[Munich]] || Scrapped || By Krauss-Maffei. [[Ground effect train|Air-cushion vehicle]] (ACV or [[hovercraft]]) propelled by a linear motor. The system was abandoned in 1973 due to the too high noise generation and the too large consumption. Attempts in France ([[Aérotrain]]) and in the USA ([http://www.shonner.com/aerotrain/]) led in the following years to similar decisions. 930 m test track. || 140 (September 1972)
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|| 1972 / 1974 ? || Erlangener Erprobungsträger (EET 01) || Southern edge of [[Erlangen]] (near [[Nuremberg]]), Germany || ? || By [[Siemens]] and others. Electrodynamic suspension (EDS) (like [[JR-Maglev]]). Unmanned. 880 m circular track. ''Erlangener Erprobungsträger''=Erlangen test carrier. || 160 / 230 (1974) ?
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|| 20 December 1973 || Transrapid 04 || Munich - Allach, Germany || [[Technik Museum Speyer]] || By Krauss-Maffei. || 250 (end 1973), 253.2 (21 November 1977)
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|| 1974 / January 1975 ? || Komponentenmeßträger (KOMET) || [[Manching]], Germany || near Lathen in a barn || By MBB. Unmanned. 1300 m track. || 401.3 (1974)
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|| 1975 || HMB1 || [[Thyssen-Henschel|Thyssen Henschel]] in [[Kassel]], Germany || ? || By [[Thyssen-Henschel|Thyssen Henschel]]. First functional longstator vehicle. 100 m guideway. Unmanned. ||
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|| 1976 || HMB2 || Thyssen Henschel in [[Kassel]], Germany || Technik-Museum, [[Kassel]] || By Thyssen Henschel. World's first passenger-carrying, longstator vehicle. 100 m guide-way. || 36 (or 40 ?)
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|| 17 May 1979 || Transrapid 05 || [[:de:Internationale Verkehrsausstellung|International Transportation Exhibition]] (IVA 79) in [[Hamburg]]. Reassembled in [[Kassel]] in 1980. || Technik-Museum, [[Kassel]] || 908 m track. || 75
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|| June 1983 || Transrapid 06 || [[Emsland test facility|Transrapid Versuchsanlage Emsland]] (TVE), Germany || A part is in [[Deutsches Museum]] at Bonn, other part in Lathen || Presented to public in [[Munich]] on 13 March 1983. 31.5&nbsp;km track. || 302 (1984), 355 (1985), 392 (1987), 406 (1987), 412.6 (January 1988)
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|| 1988 || Transrapid 07 || Transrapid Versuchsanlage Emsland (TVE), Germany || A part is at Eisenbahnmuseum Bochum (since 2024), the other part still resides in Lathen || Presented to public at the International Transportation Exhibition (IVA 88) in Hamburg. || 436 (15 December 1989),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Transrapid - Geschichte/Zukunft |url=http://ddi.cs.uni-potsdam.de/HyFISCH/Veranstaltungen/InfoWettbewerb/2000/beitraege/preis2/11/Eisenbahn/RapidGeschichte.html |access-date=2023-12-29 |website=ddi.cs.uni-potsdam.de}}</ref> 450 (17 June 1993)
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|| August 1999 || Transrapid 08 || Transrapid Versuchsanlage Emsland (TVE), Germany || One ending section destroyed 22 September 2006 in [[2006 Lathen maglev train accident|accident]], remaining middle and ending section are stored in Lathen || ||
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|| 2002 || Transrapid SMT || [[Shanghai Maglev Train]], China || Shanghai, China || slightly modified version of the Transrapid 08|| 501,5 (12 November 2003)
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|| 2007 || Transrapid 09 || Transrapid Versuchsanlage Emsland (TVE), Germany || Kemper Factory in Nortrup || Offered for sale in October 2016<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.vebeg.de/web/de/verkauf/suchen.htm?SHOW_AUS=1643270&SHOW_LOS=1&nolistlink=1| title=Magnetschwebebahn "ThyssenKrupp" Transrapid 09 best. aus| language=de| access-date=7 October 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.vebeg.de/images/lospics/70/1643270.001.pdf |title= Tender 1643270 |language= de,en |access-date= 7 Oct 2016 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161009152447/http://www.vebeg.de/images/lospics/70/1643270.001.pdf |archive-date= 2016-10-09 }}</ref>  Five years after the shutdown of the Transrapid pilot plant Emsland in 2011, the Kemper family, the owners of H. Kemper GmbH & Co. KG, purchased the Transrapid 09 for €200,001. In September 2017, it was erected on the company premises in Nortrup. The three sections of the train is then  used as conference and exhibition space for the history of the Transrapid. Hermann Kemper, the inventor of the maglev train, came from the same family as the owners of the sausage and meat products manufacturer Kemper.||
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