western germany in the mid one nine hundred eighty s. the transfer of peat didn't glide through a vacuum tube but it did use magnets for propulsion the maglev train had a top speed of four hundred twelve kilometers per hour faster than modern intercity express trains in europe. on september twenty second two thousand and six in the middle of its test route the transfer appeared collided with a maintenance vehicle that was mistakenly on the track twenty three people were killed and ten were injured. today the former test track lies in ruins after the accident the german trans repeat could no longer find an investor. however the system went into operation elsewhere in shanghai