The hovertrain was a revolutionary idea that was tested in the 1960s and '70s in a few countries but was later abandoned and never became a reality. Like Elon Musk's proposed hyperloop of today, the ...

The hovertrain was a science fiction marvel that made its way into the real world. In the 1970s, manufacturers all over the United States and Europe were particularly interested in making them a ...

It was the futuristic solution to growing congestion on the roads: a hovertrain which could travel at 300mph. The plan, which was dreamed up in 1967 during Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson's time ...

A campaign has been launched to save the RTV 31 hovertrain from being 'lost forever'. Drew Berry has been working to raise funds to save the RTV 31, which is currently kept at Railworld Wildlife Haven ...

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A museum is hoping to raise money to preserve a hovertrain that threatened to revolutionise travel in the 1960s. The monorail transport was an elevated, high speed hovertrain that was tested on a ...

A vision of high-speed train travel from the 1960s has been resurrected on film - after the discovery of rare archive footage. The 'hovertrain' was a pipedream poised to revolutionise public transport ...

A railway museum is hoping to raise money to restore a prototype hovertrain first tested by the government in the 1960s. The Railworld museum in Peterborough has been storing the last known prototype ...

Spacetrain – launched by Emeuric Gleizes in 2017 – is developing a high-speed shuttle inspired by the Aerotrain, which is a hovertrain concept birthed by Jean Bertin in 1970 but later abandoned for ...

A railway museum is hoping to raise money to restore a prototype hovertrain first tested by the government in the 1960s. The Railworld museum in Peterborough has been storing the last known prototype ...