Magnetic Rail High Speed Train Lines

There is a subway debate in Istanbul. It is as if we have learned how to build subways ourselves with national and domestic means and we are fighting over who will do better.

The ruling party is trying to denigrate what the municipality has done. It has reduced the issue to an election dimension.

Moreover, the ministry has symbolized the lines with a different letter. You would think that the investments were made as a favor, not to serve the people.

IBB, on the other hand, although it has focused on this issue to the maximum extent possible, does not stop polemicizing with the government on transportation, as if all the current constructions are finished, reducing what they have done to election propaganda.

I don't like these political polemics at all.

Whoever is doing what they are doing, they are doing it with what the people have saved from their teeth and they have to do much better.

It is necessary to end this article here, but let's examine the issue a little more.

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I have already written an article on the Moscow metro. 

The whole world already knows how extensive the Moscow metro is. 

However, even though the Russians have such a large metro network with historical beauties, let's say they are trying to keep up with modern metro technologies, the metro lines are still quite old. 

The new stations are much better than the old ones. Their trains are also much more technological than the old systems.

Still, I can say that they do not have such super technological systems.

Unfortunately, at least some of the security measures that have been implemented in some countries are still missing in Moscow metro stations.

I mentioned in another article that modern subways now have barriers with automatic gates on the sides of the line as a safety precaution.

After all, the world has really advanced a lot in metro technologies and modern countries are still working on new systems.

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You know that the government, which I think is a very shameful thing, is openly saying that I have never let the opposition work, that if you don't vote for me in this election, I won't let them work again, and that if they win again, I will prevent them from serving you again. 

Of course, the government says this under the pretense that the municipalities and the government should work in harmony. 

This discourse is clearly a threat! 

It is very clear that this is being said as an election propaganda tactic.

I don't know if this will work as an election tactic, I think it might backfire.

I can even say that I think it will backfire.

Let's put this aside and look at the developments in the world regarding subways and high speed train lines.

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I can say that the subway is not very foreign to me. 

In fact, I worked on the project works of the Ankara subway in the past. 

Although the project office I worked for was more specialized in highway bridges, the bridge designs of the metro lines do not require a very different design than highway bridges once the specifications are known.

The specifications for that first metro line had been prepared by a Canadian company and we had made the calculations in accordance with the load values written in those specifications.

Even then, I had a question mark in my mind as to why we couldn't develop a specification ourselves when we had so much TCDD experience.

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Yes, modern states do their own work in these matters.

This is partly a historical accumulation.

But you can also develop a brand new technology on your own. 

OK, you will have to make use of your old experience in this new technology, but you need to have highly specialized institutions, especially universities, to work on the development of the new technology.

Maybe it would be useful to establish a metro general directorate or maybe even a ministry at the national level.

Also, the new system needs to be tested with test lines.

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High-speed train lines are being built in our country.

But as far as I know, these lines are normal rail systems.

But in China, for example, high-speed train lines moving on magnetic bearings have been in use for a long time. 

Shanghai maglev train line was put into operation in 2004. This is a magnetic rail line.

It is over 30 km long and the highest speed recorded so far is 431 km/h. 

Sources say that the design is based on a speed of 600 km/h.

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Maglev train lines are rail transportation systems using two sets of magnets. 

Magnetic levilation! This system is called magnetic leveling.

Since the trains move by sliding on the magnets on these lines, creep is minimized and therefore energy consumption is very low.

Moreover, since the line is wrapped from left and right by the walking parts of the train, this system has a sufficiently safe design.

Not only in China, but also in Germany, Switzerland and France, for example, such magnetic rail bullet trains have started to be used.

Another source says that the speed limit can be up to 640 km/h.

This is almost the cruising speed of passenger planes. 

Passenger planes usually travel at 800 km/h in the air.

Since there is no need to build huge airports outside the city on these lines, it is actually a very logical travel solution. These trains can depart from stations inside the city and there is no need to waste time traveling to airports outside the city.

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But what I really want to point out here is that the countries themselves have developed this technology.

Probably in the future, travel between cities will be done by these new types of high-speed trains. 

Inter-country routes will probably also be made on trains departing from special stations.

We have covered the country with iron nets!

Those who do it do it, these things are not just words for some.

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In China, another new system for high speed trains is currently being tested.

In this new system, which also has a speed limit of 600 km/h, the trains move in a tube. 

A vacuum high speed train line!

This is said to be much more advantageous in terms of energy saving. 

This new technology, which is currently undergoing test drives on a 2 km test line, is said to have a bit of a vibration problem. 

Most probably they will soon find a solution for the shaking by putting magnetic bearings on the left and right sides.

At worst, they can use this new system as freight trains.

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It was thought that this system would be suitable for subway lines.

Who can object to the fact that subway lines, which are already moving in underground tunnels, can move with less energy consumption and much faster with vacuum?

To tell you the truth, I am not very hopeful about the high speed of the subway lines in the city since there is not that much distance between the stops, after all, even if the trains will move a little faster, there is no need for such 600 km per hour speeds in the city.

Still, if it is a more comfortable and economical solution, I think there is no reason why metro lines should not be vacuum systems in the future.

The trains can be changed in terminals to be established in the city periphery and then return to vacuum and tube high speed train lines for intercity transportation.

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In short, there are many solutions, as long as we don't stop working and thinking about these issues. Of course, there must also be the will to do things with national and domestic means.

If you say we cannot do it, you will be a slave to those who can.

Then you will be forced to buy technological equipment from Germany or other countries while you still have a TCDD wagon factory.

Today, all metro trains are made with foreign technology. As far as I know, the complete production of trains from spare parts to trains is foreign production. The world's money is paid for all this equipment.

Look, the first studies on MMU have finally started.

So is there any MHT work?

If you ask what MHT is, it is the National High Speed Train, if you like, call it MMRHT, the National Magnetic Rail High Speed Train.

Does anyone among you ask what is MMU? 

How ignorant you are, it's KAAN, it made its first flight recently. 

Our defense industry is good, but not only the defense industry.

Come on, young people, let's get the flower pot working, let's produce our national high-speed trains together.

What's a flower pot? Isn't that a term from the days of Gırgır? 

I guess you remember Gırgır. 

In short, I think it's enough if you put your mind to work.

Stay with science and technology.

Love and respect to everyone from Moscow.