Re: fast trains

[james_ccj@my-deja.com]

In article <DmBx4.287$vm2.409974@news0.optus.net.au>,
  dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage) wrote:
> Richard (richard_snook@primus.com.au) won a Nobel Prize for
literature by writing:
> > Vaughan Williams wrote:
>
> > > I'm not suggesting that the trains would blast through the
suburbs at
> > > 160 km/hr, only that some time could be saved.
> > Stood on an English platform as an IC-125 goes past!! :-)) (thats
>125MPH)
160 kph is "NOT VERY FAST" by Euro standard



> There have been some injuries from this. BR had a plan to test the
> turbulence from passing trains at 125mph. Their plan was to tie
volunteers
> to poles near the track and wait for a train to pass. I think that's
> barbaric - they could starve to death!
>
> Cheers
> David
>
In Japan, smaller stations on "Shinkansen" has got fence on the
platform automatically close when a train passing through, what do
operators of TGV/ICE/Eurostar/Acela do to protect their passengers?

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Cheers

James


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