mdrejhon
Senior Member
Wow, that was a real interesting read!
There are some countries where high speed trains pass by at something like 200 to 300 kilometers per hour. A photo of one had signs such as "High Speed Trains Pass Through Without Stopping! Stand Clear" with a hazard logo of some kind. If 145kph is very startling, wait till you see one pass by at 300kph. Normally they use a passing lane further from the platform but is apparently not true for every single high speed line in the world. That would be quite something if you were not expecting a train ten feet to your side.
On this topic....The Georgetown corridor upgrades spreading all the way to Kitchener, pre-HSR....
If GO trains speed up over time (faster GO RER trainsets on specific corridors) they probably will have to go high platform with fewer protrusions (aerodynamic and injury risk, and the fact higher speed trains are nearly all high platform now). I wonder if SmartTrack (GO RER) will slowly over a couple decades, introduce introduce high platform GO Trains in the Kitchener corridor, with a 200kph "high performance rail" interim speedup before the official HSR, if it is not cancelled, given the long stretches between some stations make 200kph EMUs could be worthwhile on the Kitchener route even for the current existing routing, with no new ROW yet.
There are some countries where high speed trains pass by at something like 200 to 300 kilometers per hour. A photo of one had signs such as "High Speed Trains Pass Through Without Stopping! Stand Clear" with a hazard logo of some kind. If 145kph is very startling, wait till you see one pass by at 300kph. Normally they use a passing lane further from the platform but is apparently not true for every single high speed line in the world. That would be quite something if you were not expecting a train ten feet to your side.
On this topic....The Georgetown corridor upgrades spreading all the way to Kitchener, pre-HSR....
If GO trains speed up over time (faster GO RER trainsets on specific corridors) they probably will have to go high platform with fewer protrusions (aerodynamic and injury risk, and the fact higher speed trains are nearly all high platform now). I wonder if SmartTrack (GO RER) will slowly over a couple decades, introduce introduce high platform GO Trains in the Kitchener corridor, with a 200kph "high performance rail" interim speedup before the official HSR, if it is not cancelled, given the long stretches between some stations make 200kph EMUs could be worthwhile on the Kitchener route even for the current existing routing, with no new ROW yet.
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