How UK was on cusp of world's first 'hovertrain' with 300mph top speed 50 years ago

The plan, dreamed up in 1967 under Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson, would have seen a train levitate above a bed of magnets to zip across the country at speeds unheard of anywhere else. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6437841/How-UK-cusp-worlds-hovertrain-300mph-speed-50-years-ago.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490