The British company has offered to create an underground maglev for transportation of goods

The British love to dig into the ground. First appeared in the London subway more in the second half of the 19th century. Today, the total length of subway lines is the third largest in the world. And recently, the British company Mole Solutions suggested lay underground tunnels for cargo delivery.

But loads will not move pneumatic method that immediately comes to mind: the engineers propose to build electromagnetic path, working on the principle of maglev. Due to the absence of friction even terrestrial magnetic levitation trains to beat speed records - most recently the Japanese train JR Tokai flying at a speed of 590 km / h.



Linear motors, according to the developers, will make a special trolley run underground through pipes of diameter 1.3 - 2.4 meters, and loading with strain will have to happen automatically. Inventors do not offer to lend the pipes to the door of each house, and organize special storage and transfer stations. UK Department of the Environment has already allocated the funds necessary for the construction of an experimental line in Northampton. The main purpose of the underground road - to unload land routes messages.



Thought to deliver the goods under the ground is not new. In the 19th century, simultaneously with the launch of the metro and is attempting to create an extensive pneumatic - they failed due to numerous technical problems.



In addition, in London from 1927 to 2003, acting special postal Metro Mail Rail, which consisted of a single line length of 10.5 km, which has eight stations. Mail train from the beginning went on electricity and controlled from remote supervisory console.



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At its peak, the mail train were transported to 45 thousand pounds of mail every day. But by the end of the road maintenance activities become unreasonably expensive - by some estimates, road transport began to do 5 times cheaper. Not finding the best way of application or a new owner, the government decided its conservation.

In modern cities, congested communications and existing subway lines, the cost of laying one more underground network messages can be extremely high, and therefore the profitability of such a system is a big question.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/249206/