Transrapid 04
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| Manufacturer: | Krauss Maffei |
| Year of construction (s): | 1974 |
| Length: | 15 m |
| Height: | 2.8 m |
| Width: | 3.4 m |
| Empty mass: | 16.5 t |
| Top speed: | 253.2 km / h |
| Starting tractive effort: | 50 kN |
| Motor type: | Two-comb asynchronous short stator linear motor |
| Power transmission: | via busbar |
| Seats: | 20th |
The Transrapid 04 is an electromagnetically levitating test vehicle based on the short stator principle. It was built in January 1974 as the successor to the Transrapid 02 to test higher speeds and the two-beam roadway. In contrast to its predecessor TR02 , the track had two aluminum reaction rails that were attached to the side. This enabled the reaction boost to be doubled and a flatter design to be achieved. The old track design of the TR02 (inverted T-shape) only had a single reaction rail in the middle. It was used on a now dismantled magnetic levitation train test route in Munich-Allach , which was 2,400 m long and ran in a slight S-shape from the factory premises of Krauss-Maffei to Munich-Ludwigsfeld train station . The Transrapid 04 is the last vehicle in the Transrapid series with a short stator design. Its successor was the Transrapid 05 . Today the Transrapid 04 is on display in the Technik Museum Speyer .
Trivia
The vehicle was seen in action in the Derrick episode Das Kuckucksei .
literature
- Stefan H. Hedrich: Transrapid. The magnetic levitation train is on the political "waiting loop". EK, Freiburg 2003, ISBN 3-88255-148-8
