BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany has ditched plans to build a flagship high-speed rail link between the Bavarian capital Munich and its airport because of ballooning costs, Transport Minister Wolfgang ...

A high-tech train that floats on powerful magnetic fields smashed into a maintenance car on an elevated test track Friday, killing 23 people and injuring 10 — the first fatalities on a maglev train.

LATHEN, Germany - A high-tech train that floats on powerful magnetic fields smashed into a maintenance car on an elevated test track Friday, killing 23 people and injuring 10 - the first fatalities on ...

The quiet Transrapid train-only 75 decibels loud-looped around one edge of the test track as viewers watched from a platform. On the straightaway, it began accelerating to 400 km per hour. Up ahead, ...

Initial indications were that human error, not sophisticated maglev technology, was to blame for putting the maintenance vehicle on the track at the same time as the Transrapid train. The train was ...

OSNABRUECK, Germany (Reuters) - State prosecutors in Germany have charged three people with manslaughter for their role in a high-speed train crash which killed 23 people and injured 10 last year.