L'Aerotrain - Abandoned French hovertrain project






L'Aerotrain - Abandoned French hovertrain project

Developed from 1965-77 but suspended due to the TGV
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mlr740mlr740 (14 days ago)
We built one to in the UK but the politicans scrapped it in 1974, It was near Earith in Cambridgeshire the only thing left now is one piece of track and the hover vehicle at Railworld in Peterborough.
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Guest (146 days ago)
this is so awesome I idn't even know that they tried to build smth. like that in France!
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