Abstract: The invention concerns a dual rail track permanent way for a wheel/rail system and a magnetic rail system whose carriages are of a height which lies within the clearance profile of track, the guiding magnets are situated inside the span of the carrier magnets, next to each rail of the rail track a magnetic rail runs outside the clearance profile of rail track and opening points are provided at which one system can be sideways displaced in relation to the other system and a section of the magnetic rail which passes through the clearance profile of rail track is designed as a gate which can be swung out of the said clearance profile and the operating equipment of the wheel/rail system is fitted outside the clearance profile of the magnetic track system.

Abstract: A vehicle anti-theft device which includes electronic control apparatus for controlling a function of a vehicle, the electronic control apparatus having anti-theft circuitry and controlling the vehicle function through an electrical cable, a plug in connection for physically connecting and disconnecting the electrical cable to and from the electronic control apparatus, the plug in connection including a first electrical contact electrically connected to the cable, a second electrical contact electrically connected to the electronic control apparatus when the plug in connection is physically connected thereto, at least one switching device having a first condition wherein the first and second electrical contacts are electrically connected and a second condition wherein they are electrically nonconnected, sensor apparatus for sensing a physical disconnection of the plug in connection from the electronic control apparatus and for placing the switching device in the second condition in response thereto, and switc

Abstract: A one-directional tunnel system for a high-speed train includes a first tunnel section having a pair of rails for support of a train. A second tunnel section has a pair of rails for support of the train and is generally alignable with and separated from the first tunnel section. A third tunnel section has a pair of rails for support of the train and is horizontally beside the second tunnel section and separated from the first tunnel section. The first tunnel section can be selectively joined to one of the second tunnel section and the third tunnel section by at least one first tunnel switching section which is rotatable about an axis generally parallel to the first tunnel section. The first tunnel switching section has a first tunnel portion including a pair of the rails for support of the train and is alignable with the first tunnel section and the second tunnel section and the pair of rails thereof.