Re: Why wooden cars don't go over 80kph...

[James Brook <ajmbrook@ozemail.com.au>]

This photo shows two crashed tait cars. They don't have the anti-telescoping
bars on the E and W cars. I have seen a photo of the Serviceton crash where an
E sleeping car has demolished the end of a steel mail van (D1 I think). In the
photo it looks a lot better than the steel car. I think the E car was Coliban,
one of Steamrail's sleeping cars! :-) Can anyone confirm this? Of course, in a
roll-over or a side impact the wooden cars would still splinter into a million
pieces.

Mark Bau wrote:

> Sorry but I'm not following your logic. This prang occurred in 1926, VR and
> other railways, continued to run wooden cars at 70MPH or better for many
> decades after this prang. This crash would have occurred at relatively low
> speed, certainly much slower than 70MPH so why are you providing this photo
> as evidence that running wooden cars faster than 80KPH is a bad idea?
>
> Wooden cars fare worse in a crash at any speed, using your logic we
> shouldn't run wooden cars at all.



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