From
ITVA very interesting history piece:
t was hoped it would be the train of the future.
Forged in the white heat of Harold Wilson's technological revolution a group of engineers believed that a train riding on a cushion of air would be the future of public transport.
Tracked Hovercraft Limited was set up in 1967 to use Government funding to develop the system.
And a test track was built at Earith near Ely - running alongside the man-made Old Bedford River.
50 years on all that's left of the track are a series of isoltated concrete supports - only visible from a footpath.
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