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World's first commercial MAGLEV system: Birmingham, UK 1984 I've ridden it myself many years ago. Laithwaite was propounding his ideas back in the 1970s, possibly earlier. There was a copy of his book in the Physics library at school and a few of us had ideas about creating "LIMP" the Linear Induction Motor Project. A lack of funds, lack of official (ie teaching) support and an absolute ruling (headmaster) that we couldn't use the supports for the fence around the all-weather hockey pitch put paid to it though.