← Back to context Comment by 1718627440 12 days ago The measurement trains drive slowly in the night. 5 comments 1718627440 Reply mkl 12 days ago They can go at high speed:Germany: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAILabJapan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_YellowFrance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNCF_TGV_Iris_320China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_railways_CIT_trainsUK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Measurement_Train N19PEDL2 11 days ago Italy: https://decode39.com/3045/diamond-fs-diagnostics-train-luigi... mitthrowaway2 12 days ago Indeed!> Line inspection is carried out at full speed, up to 270 km/h or 168 mph on the Tōkaidō Shinkansen and 285 km/h or 177 mph on the Sanyō Shinkansen Azrael3000 12 days ago Not necessarily, the measurement train my company develops can go up to 100 km/h and measure certain rail features every 5mm at that speed. lefra 12 days ago 100 km/h is slow compared to passenger train (even non-high-speed ones). Depending on how packed the schedule is, it might not be possible to analyse track during the day without causing backups.
mkl 12 days ago They can go at high speed:Germany: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAILabJapan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_YellowFrance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNCF_TGV_Iris_320China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_railways_CIT_trainsUK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Measurement_Train N19PEDL2 11 days ago Italy: https://decode39.com/3045/diamond-fs-diagnostics-train-luigi... mitthrowaway2 12 days ago Indeed!> Line inspection is carried out at full speed, up to 270 km/h or 168 mph on the Tōkaidō Shinkansen and 285 km/h or 177 mph on the Sanyō Shinkansen
mitthrowaway2 12 days ago Indeed!> Line inspection is carried out at full speed, up to 270 km/h or 168 mph on the Tōkaidō Shinkansen and 285 km/h or 177 mph on the Sanyō Shinkansen
Azrael3000 12 days ago Not necessarily, the measurement train my company develops can go up to 100 km/h and measure certain rail features every 5mm at that speed. lefra 12 days ago 100 km/h is slow compared to passenger train (even non-high-speed ones). Depending on how packed the schedule is, it might not be possible to analyse track during the day without causing backups.
lefra 12 days ago 100 km/h is slow compared to passenger train (even non-high-speed ones). Depending on how packed the schedule is, it might not be possible to analyse track during the day without causing backups.
They can go at high speed:
Germany: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAILab
Japan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Yellow
France: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNCF_TGV_Iris_320
China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_railways_CIT_trains
UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Measurement_Train
Italy: https://decode39.com/3045/diamond-fs-diagnostics-train-luigi...
Indeed!
> Line inspection is carried out at full speed, up to 270 km/h or 168 mph on the Tōkaidō Shinkansen and 285 km/h or 177 mph on the Sanyō Shinkansen
Not necessarily, the measurement train my company develops can go up to 100 km/h and measure certain rail features every 5mm at that speed.
100 km/h is slow compared to passenger train (even non-high-speed ones). Depending on how packed the schedule is, it might not be possible to analyse track during the day without causing backups.