Magnetic levitation is such a fascinating technology – and even though the German Transrapid project is no longer followed, it still holds the speed record for a train-alike mass transport vehicle over German ground. In June 1993, the maglev reached 450 kph. Even though a lethal accident stopped all maglev testing in the German Emsland region, the tracks and sites are still existing. In spring 2021, I explored the tracks called Transrapid-Versuchsanlage Emsland (Transrapid Emsland Test Grounds) together with my wife.

Transrapid – Some Historic Facts
The Transrapid technology is a German development in collaboration of Siemens and ThyssenKrupp companies. The very first steps of the state-funded project were already in the late 1960’s. In 1991 the Transrapid was regarded to be ready to be ready to be used practically. However, all German projects – the most prominent one is likely an improved connection between Munich city center and the airport, have been stopped during development. The only working Transrapid technology is the Transrapid SMT in Shanghai, China. Based on that technology, China is planning to build an improved maglev currently named CRRC 600.
A Lethal Accident in 2006
The (overall) fail of the technology has multiple reasons. A key one is the improvement of high speed rail systems in the meantime. Without a doubt, the deadly accident on 22nd September 2006 was one of the last reasons to stop projects. The test track in the Emsland was also a tourist attraction. A group of visitors had a morning ride on that day, all of them were invited to that right for various reason. While the maglev completed all tests and started the typical ten minute ride, a maintenance car was still on the track and did not get permission to leave it to the depot. 23 people were killed. The reason has been human failure, majorly by the dispatcher of the track.
Test Track Closed in 2011
There have been test rides with later Transrapid generations, but overall, the test track has been closed in 2011. It should have been dismantled in 2012 already, but there are various options how to use that track, e.g. for Hyperloop technology testing. The switches at each oval and in order to reach the depot are still working, some electric connections have been removed, though. In general, it is still possible to purchase Transrapid trains and infrastructure for active usage. One of the most prominent options is likely the maglev connection of Pittsburgh Airport.
Former Transrapid Test Track – Location
The Transrapid Test track has a total length of 31.8 kilometers. It has one straight, which has been used in either direction and loops on the North side and the South side of the track, which roughly operates between the cities Dörpen and Lathen. The most prominent cities nearby are Meppen and Papenburg. The whole track is still existing, there are, however, some parts which cannot be accessed by car. The road parallel to the straights of the track is not allowed for traffic, but used by the locals frequently.
The key marker on the map above is the former visitor center, which is located at the former depot. The memorial site for the Transrapid crash is located right at the other side of the track – the original location is however further North of the memorial (see below). I also marked the Information Center in Dörpen, which you can spot on the pictures below. You can also visit the Besucherhügel (visitors hill) close to the Northern switch of the track, where you had a great view of the train twice .
Transrapid – Former Visitor Center & Depot
If you look at the former visitor center from outside, you could feel that it is still operating. The signs around are still there (but look a bit of rusty), the platform, with which you could board Transrapid trains is still existing. The most obvious catch that something is wrong here is likely the rotten Transrapid train in front, which lost quite a bit of its (I guess, at least) red livery. It is one section of the Transrapid 07, the other one is located at the Max Bögl company grounds in Sengenthal. An interesting fact is that apart from the crashed section of the Transrapid 06, only Transrapid 03 has been scraped. All other trains are still existing, some in museums some in locations like the one in Lathen. I saw Transrapid trains in front of the Deutsches Museum Bonn or at the Technikmuseum Speyer.





If you walk around the corner, you still see the former depot. The train shed is nowadays used by a development project for inductive charging of electric cars, so that it is still in use. They were happy to get rid of their last operational and good condition Transrapid trains a few years ago. Unfortunately, I got the information too late that this train still exists and is located not too far away. The family of the main inventor of the maglev technology, Hermann Kemper, is also big in meat processing – and thus, this last Transrapid train, the Transrapid 09, is now located in front of their meat packing plant in Nortrup.
Part of the original crashed train still in depot
The most impressive thing you see is one end section section of a Transrapid train – which is in fact the E2 end of the Transrapid 08 train which crashed in 2006. The middle section is still existing as well, but not visible. You also see a lot of maintenance material, like the maintenance cars involved in the 2006 crash. The area is not accessible, of course – but you got a good view from outside.







Transrapid – Memorials
The “official” memorial for the 23 victims of the 2006 Transrapid crash is located right opposite of the visitor center. There are 23 trees planted and a memorial stone stating all the names of the victims. There seemed to be something like a memory book or display, but it is completely rotten nowdays – quite a shame after just fifteen years.




The interesting thing about the “tourist memorial”, how I am tempted to call it, is that it is not at the right location. I have no exact idea about why they did that. The place where the crash really happened is only accessible my the maintenance road and you might want to avoid tourism. Maybe you just wanted the memorial to be close to the visitor center and platform. At the place where the crash really happened, there is a second memorial, which is maintained (by locals or relatives?).




Transrapid – The Track and Other Viewpoints
We explored major parts of the straight tracks – following the two loops at each and is a bit of more tricky, but doable. It is very impressive to see how they experimented with different tracks like steel and concrete constructions, but also natural influences. At one point close to the Northern loop, there is a wall next to the track, which has been built to evaluate the influence of wind to the stability of the vehicles. As said, the switches are still working – if you are really lucky, it feels to happen that they operate them from time to time.








Close to the Northern point in Dörpen, there are also still two Transrapid facilities existing. There is the Besucherhügel (visitors hill), which gave a view to a major part of the Northern loop and was thus very popular. The artificial hill still exists, we however did not climb on it. A very obvious building East of Dörpen is the former Aussichtsturm, i.e. observation tower. It is no longer accessible, but it feels to be in really good conditions. From the ground, you even still see the Transrapid illustrations on the wall.





Transrapid – My View
I know about the pros and cons of the technology, but visiting this place made me really sad. Of course, first of all due to the victims of the crash – but overall I feel it is an amazing technology. If you nowadays ask for reducing short-distance flights, these trains are still the alternative to go to me. Whenever you take the S-Bahn train from Munich Main Station to Munich Airport, you might now think about this technology, which would have cut down the traveling time from 40 minutes to 15. In contrast to national peers like Frankfurt Airport, Cologne/Bonn or Dusseldorf Airport, Munich Airport is still not connected to a high-speed public transport system.
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The place where the story of the famous (typically) red cars started? Walking on the routes of the Ferrari company ...
My trip to the Bodensee / Lake Constance region in summer 2020 brought me to a surprisingly large number of car ...
Professional stargazing: The European Southern Observatory, short ESO is a collaboration of multiple European countries to gather astronomic forces on the ...
A museum with an amazing collection of luxury and top-class racing cars, driven for the cause of charity. This is ...
The story why I felt I had to visit the Bergisches Museum für Bergbau, Handwerk und Handel - the Bergisches ...
The German Movie Museum - or: Deutsches Filmmuseum is located in the heart of Frankfurt (Main). It gives you an overview about ...
In February 2020, I visited a lovely aviation museum in Santa Ana, Greater Los Angeles: the Lyon Air Museum is ...
The Cap San Diego is a general cargo vessel, which has been in duty between 1962 and 1986. Since then, it ...
If an industrial site is jokingly called the Eiffel Tower of the Ruhrgebiet Region, it seems to be quite an impressive ...
Zeppelinheim - the nominal reference in the name of the borough South of Frankfurt to the legendary German airships is ...
I am really fascinated by Leonardo da Vinci and his concepts / inventions. Thus, during my summer 2020 visit to ...
A museum with 90 vintage cars and so-called Yountimers might not feel to thrilling. If you add that about half of ...
Even though I could likely never have a maritime life (I would feel too locked away on a ship), I ...
The Aviodrome in Lelystad in the Netherlands calls itself a Luchtvaart Themapark - an "Aviation Theme Park". You can definitely spent as ...
What would a visit to the Silicon Valley be without at least visiting one computer museum? Duing my February 2020 ...
The marketing flyer of the Museum Prototyp in Hamburg is really self-confident. The name of the car history museum is not ...
I already presented you my review of Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh. As its key attraction is that special, I ...
The Louwman collection, nowadays driven by the son of founder Pieter Louwman, Evert, is a private collection of oldtimer cars ...
Even though architecture is a topic which so much influences our everyday life, the German Architecture Museum (Deutsches Architekturmuseum - ...
Some cities are economically dominated by one big company player (which can have good and bad effects). Eindhoven in the ...
The Carnegie Science Center is one of the best rated attractions in Pittsburgh. Of course, I have visited the nicely ...
The Deutsches Museum (German Museum for Science and Technology) in Munich is one of the most fascinating places in Germany ...
Though there is the amazing tiny Zeppelin Museum in Meersburg, not too far away, people tend to think about the ...
Hangar 7 at Salzburg Airport, driven by (likely) the world leader of energy drinks, is a quite popular and well ...
What is Germany's most popular tourist attractions? According to many popular rankings including TripAdvisor, it is neither the Brandenburg Gate ...
Aviation fans likely first think about the zeppelins when it comes to Friedrichshafen, Germany. However, the city is also home ...
A museum for home computers feels like a technical reflection of my biography. I personally started with an Atari 800 ...
Las Vegas offers entertainment for everybody. One of the places which I love most in the city is definitely the Pinball ...
The Imperial War Museum operates five sites throughout Britain. While I already visited the interesting Churchill War Rooms, I was ...
Out of my archived postings, it is sometimes very hard to find the right option to publish next on Flyctory.com ...
Air ship and zeppelin flights / flight history is a quite popular part of a visit at Lake Constance. In ...
I am not too much of a casino person. However, I love being in Las Vegas as it is also ...
You are free to mention the Colts (see my review of the Lucas Oil Stadium Tour), but finally, if you ...
In close proximity to Sharjah Airport, there is the Sharjah Classic Car Museum. On my November 2019 trip through the ...
The De Havilland company is a huge name in the aviation history, especially regarding British aviation history. Close to the ...
A Calculation Museum? Sounds like a place for die-hard nerds - but the Arithmeum in Bonn is really a popular ...
If you look at the mega-airport of Dubai International nearby, it is hard to believe that Sharjah once was the ...
There are quite many museums about civil emergency services. After I visited the amazing National Emergency Services Museum in Sheffield ...
I am sure you know all the details (non-fictional and dramatic ones) about the tragic end of the RMS Titanic ...
The next cities around are Trier, Sankt Wendel or Idar-Oberstein - the small city of Hermeskeil could be seen as ...
Video Gaming and arcade machines have been a significant part of my life. I grew up with an Atari 800XL, ...
Not just due to my favorite flight with LATAM from Frankfurt to the Spanish capital, I love being in Madrid ...
When I select the places I want to visit in a city for flyctory.com, there are typically two kinds sights: ...
The historic Cental Fire Station is one of the most iconic landmarks in Singapore. While you likely pass by this ...
On the return trip from Singapore and Malaysia, I had more or less a whole day around Manchester before I ...
Just around all the National Historic sites in Philadelphia, there is a load of additional museums, which are more or ...
If you use the Madrid Metro Line 1 between Bilbao and Iglesia, you will likely notice that you pass another ...
Ever dreamed of becoming a fire fighter or a policeman? Maybe the National Emergency Services Museum in Sheffield is the ...
During a weekend stay in Sheffield, where I had an overnight due to a Mike & The Mechanics concert, the ...
My first steps around O2 Arena in London during the Country 2 Country Festival 2019 were not motivated by country ...
Bergisch Gladbach, a 110,000 inhabitant city East of Cologne, is a traditional location for the production of paper. While nowadays, ...
After I visited the Sinsheim sister museum in February, I have been very curious about visiting the Speyer Technology Museum ...
The area feels like nomansland in the desert - but when you take a 30 minute Southbound drive from Abu ...
One of the key attractions in Ratingen, Northeast of Dusseldorf, is the remarkable Cromford Textile Factory, which is driven by ...
As an aviation nerd, I just had to visit the quite well-rated Finnish Aviation Museum (Suomen ilmailumuseo), which is located ...
Due to the limited exhibition space of the "Deutsches Museum" (German Museum of Technology), the famous Munich educative center had ...
Being a UNESCO World Heritage for its famous colorful city center and harbor area, it is not that surprising that ...
Located quite prominently right at the motorway A6 at Sinsheim (home of the TSG Hoffenheim soccer club), the Technik Museum ...