train crash in Japan

"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69) 09/05/2019 at 07:01 • Filed to: yokohama, japan, train crash

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Svend > pip bip - choose Corrour 09/05/2019 at 08:29

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Though unfortunate for that one person and their kith and kin, it was so lucky so many more weren’t fatally hurt.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Svend 09/05/2019 at 08:34

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imagine a bullet train coming off the tracks

boredalways > Svend 09/05/2019 at 08:38

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Amen

Svend > pip bip - choose Corrour 09/05/2019 at 08:53

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I don’t want to even contemplate that thanks. 

Nauraushaun > pip bip - choose Corrour 09/05/2019 at 11:49

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But this was no bullet train and I don’t think they make road crossings. So it almost can’t happen to a bullet train.

Good

facw > pip bip - choose Corrour 09/05/2019 at 12:01

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Luckily high-speed trains almost never make level crossings (and generally don’t do so at top speed where they do because of this risk). Even Amtrak has its shit mostly together with regards to crossings on it’s only high-speed line :

The entire Northeast Corridor has just 11 grade crossings , all in southeastern New London County, Connecticut . [ citation needed ] The remaining grade crossings are along a part of the line that hugs the shore of Fishers Island Sound . [ citation needed ] Without these crossings many waterfront communities and businesses would be inaccessible from land. [ citation needed ] Except for three grade crossings near New London Union Station , all have four-quadrant gates with induction loop sensors, which allow vehicles stopped on the tracks to be detected in time for an oncoming train to stop. [ citation needed ]

FRA rules limit track speeds on the corridor to 80 miles per hour (130 km/h) over conventional crossings and 95 miles per hour (153 km/h) over crossings with four-quadrant gates and vehicle detection tied into the signal system. [45]

That said, you don’t have to image what it looks like when a high speed train derails:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschede_derailment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_de_Compostela_derailment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenzhou_train_collision