Author Topic: Electricity generation and storage.  (Read 2983 times)

Kim

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Re: Electricity generation and storage.
« Reply #25 on: 14 August, 2019, 01:12:18 pm »
Also consider that for the most part the trains can't easily go backwards. So if you've just left station A, and power dies, you're basically waiting to go forward to station B. Even if station a has clear track and is nearest.
I am on the other hand sufficiently trainspottery to have been informed that reversing is allowed if any part of the train is still alongside the platform.

....which is largely unnecessary, as you can evacuate people along the train and out through the bit that's alongside the platform.

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Electricity generation and storage.
« Reply #26 on: 14 August, 2019, 01:14:10 pm »
It wasn't in the context of evacuation but (as in my 1980s experience) overshooting the platform in the course of an otherwise normal journey.
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Davef

Re: Electricity generation and storage.
« Reply #27 on: 14 August, 2019, 05:01:39 pm »
Trains are much easier to reverse than turn around, there just isn’t the space in most London termini.


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