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(taken from the 'The New Britain Evening Times,' Wednesday, 21 April, 2021)

NEW MAGLEV LINE OPENS BETWEEN NEW BRITAIN AND INVERNESS
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A new Maglev line has opened between New Britain SGT and Inverness Grand Street Stations, linking up the major cities on the country's East Coast with stations at Pontefract, Atwater, Rutland, Ellesmere, Newcastle, Springfield, and Pevensey. The new line runs largely parallel to the East Coast HSR Trunk, but travels at a much higher speed, at over 500 kilometres per hour. This new line will bring the largest business hubs of the Northeast within a maximum of two hours of each other, allowing residents of New Britain to commute back and forth from the tech capitals of Pevensey and Georgetown seamlessly. 'It's just the beginning,' says Maya Chiew, the Head of the TMag authority, a subsidiary of National Rail. 'We're envisioning a Maglev network that traces the coasts of the Mainland and that links the major cities of the High North: new lines will be built between Durham, Lancaster and Belfast, from Baltasound to Albany, from Howth to Barra, and from Hoo to Chatham. We're not trying to compete with the HSR: we're just trying to connect the megalopolises of this country.' Mahai-Tura Quliasa, the Head of the HSR division of National Rail, agrees: 'The Maglev is not a replacement of the HSR. It won't do ultra-long distance services: it will simply connect close urban areas. We're confident that riders will treasure both the HSR and Maglev networks in the years to come.' The New Britain-Inverness line is opening as the HSR is being upgraded to speeds of 350 kilometres an hour, and as Higher-Speed Cannonball services are becoming more and more frequent on the Northeast Conventional Line between New Britain New Street and Pevensey Leonard Street, adding another transportation option for the nearly 1,5 billion people who travel along the Northeast Coast every day for work or for leisure. Rania Shah, who commutes daily from her home in Chipping Barnet, a suburb of New Britain, to Antarcticom's headquarters in Pevensey's Tech Park, is especially grateful. 'With the Maglev opening, my commute will be slashed from two and a half hours to under an hour, and it'll be so much more comfortable too: the HSR trains are always crowded, to the point where there's only standing room.'

This story was written by Shirley S.T. Yap, with reporting contributed by Michael Uli-Sunai.