Shanghai has unveiled plans to introduce a futuristic suspended 'Skytrain' complete with transparent carriages which will provide passengers with an unobstructed 360-degree view of the city.

The railway will run on a suspended track which will allow carriages to hang below giving passengers an unencumbered view of the city.

A model of the system was unveiled at the 2015 China International Rail Transit Technology Exhibition in Shanghai yesterday, The People's Daily Online reports.

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The model Skytain which was unveiled yesterday - it will run on a suspended system which will allow the transparent carriages to hang below the track giving passengers an unencumbered view of Shanghai, China

The unveiled model suggest the Skytrain, which will be suspended 6 metres in the air, will look similar to this

Five districts in the city's financial hub have already indicated they would be interested in being linked by the Skytrain.

The conductor-less train will operate above the ground at a height of around six metres - the equivalent of three storeys.

Qi Zhiheng, project manager of the Shanghai Air Train Rail Technology Corporation, said the columns which will support the suspended railway will be just 80cm wide.

He said the pillars are so narrow they could even be built on the green belt in the middle of the road.

Suspension trains are usually compiled of six carriages. However, the trains Shanghai plans to use will have just four carriages - but each carriage will hold up to 70 passengers.

The Skytrain will have transparent carriages giving passengers unencumbered 360 degree views of the city

The model was unveiled at the 2015 China International Rail Transit Technology Exhibition yesterday

The train run at around 30 kilometres per hour, which is a little slower than the city's subway trains, which run between 30 and 40 kilometres per hour.

The Skytrain will cost an estimated 120 to 150 million yuan to build - around £16.3million.

Developers say the train will accommodate around 15,000 commuters every hour, and the space-efficient transit system will run silently through the city.

The design is based on similar suspended railways running in Germany.

Germany set up a 1.05-kilometre-long suspension route in 1984 to connect two school areas of Dortmund University.

The conductor-less train will run at a height or around six meters - the equivalent of three storeys