The Central Railway of Japan is to resume development of magnetic levitation (maglev) trains when it begins construction of a 500km/h, line between Tokyo and Nagoya (285km). A figure of $US51 billion has been mentioned. To deal with the topography, tunnels totalling some 248kn have to be bored. The
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