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Virgin Hyperloop pod transport tests first passenger journeys

The futuristic transport concept involves pods inside vacuum tubes carrying passengers at high speeds.

In the trial two passengers - both company staff - travelled the length of a 500m test track in 15 seconds, reaching 107mph (172km/h).

However this is a fraction of Virgin's ambitions for travel speeds of more than 1,000km/h.

Virgin Hyperloop is not the only firm developing the concept but nobody has carried passengers before.