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The Eurotrain demonstration train was both experimental and an intended prototype. It may differ from most experimental high-speed trains (albeit not most experimental trains!) in not having been built anew, but having been converted from in-service units; still, the combination alone makes it a new train.
My mistake - I forgot to put both countries back in.
Actually I have no idea what happened there - I thought you had removed both ER220 and Eurotrain, and thought I had re-added Eurotrain... Yet the edit history tells a completely different story. I don't how but I clearly got the revision history mixed up...
Sf5xeplus (
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22:15, 7 October 2010 (UTC)reply
Nevermind. I note that I also added another hovertrain, which never reached anything that can be called high speed, but, like RTV 31, was meant as one before funding ran out.
Mmmh. I created the template fairly quickly with material from
Template:High-speed rail which was getting so bloated as to be unreadable
[1]. It looks like I forgot to create a link to the original source, except at the top of this talk page.
To explain myself in more detail: "Aérotrain", "Transrapid" and "JR-Maglev" are not experimental and prototype trains, but brand names resp. development programmes that each involved several prototypes. There have been three Aérotrain, nine Transrapid, and several JR-Maglev prototypes, though some of those don't deserve a "high-speed" categorisation (and Transrapid also includes a commercial model). However, the template lists all Shinkansen, ICE, TGV and TACV prototypes separately, and names the (single) prototype rather than the program name for others (RTV 31), as it should. I can work on improving this... sometime. --
Rontombontom (
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05:41, 8 October 2010 (UTC)reply