French train hits 356mph?
Would you get on that?
New record for French train
Let's see them try that trick on our rails!
Would you get on that?
New record for French train
Let's see them try that trick on our rails!
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Guy Fawkes - "The last man to enter Parliament with honourable intentions." -
What with all of our missing nuts and bolts on our lines NO NO NO -
Yeah, but we hold the record for most passengers fit into a carriage!
And for smelliest carriages too (Virgin sewage special...)Comment
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I'll find out in May when I take it to the south of France, I'm more worried about the 4x Ryanair flights I have booked before then though, do they have any aircraft newer than 20 years old???Originally posted by Alf WScience isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave JohnsonComment
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I watched it. They had loads of cameras over the inside and outside of the train. It looked pretty smooth to me.
That journey from Paris to Strasbourg, about 160 miles, only costs about 65 Euros.Comment
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365 mph is probably about the fastest way retreat the frogs have come up with yet. So, yes the frogs are good at something; it's just something they've always been good at but now only faster.Originally posted by Alf WComment
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Ah, and Britain now has the very very new..... drum noise.... Pendolino....!!!Originally posted by Alf W
It makes me feel good as it reminds me of my youth almost 20 years ago in Italy.
I've seen much of the rest of the world. It is brutal and cruel and dark, Rome is the light.Comment
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Why bother with speed? We could just bolts thousands of people on the outside like they do in India. Or you pay less if you bring your own carriage, turn up, skateboard, bit of string. London-Glasgow for ten quid.bloggoth
If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)Comment
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that would get me to manchester in about 8 minutes. 'course with british signalling systems (we still have victorian era switching!) it would still take 45.Originally posted by Alf W
Anybody notice that in 1930's the fastest steam train went 100mph - the fastest train now goes a whopping 125mph! Now I knew we were conservative - but that's really taking the biscuit.McCoy: "Medical men are trained in logic."
Spock: "Trained? Judging from you, I would have guessed it was trial and error."Comment
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I think we have to applaud the French for this. They set their stall out and just built the best they could. We should have bought the technology, and shipped all their engineers etc over here and replaced all the mainline routes with these, it would transform the country.
Current system has speedbumps every few miles making any topspeed achieved virtually irrelevant.Comment
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