← Back to context Comment by 1718627440 1 month ago The measurement trains drive slowly in the night. 5 comments 1718627440 Reply mkl 1 month 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 24 days ago Italy: https://decode39.com/3045/diamond-fs-diagnostics-train-luigi... mitthrowaway2 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 24 days ago Italy: https://decode39.com/3045/diamond-fs-diagnostics-train-luigi... mitthrowaway2 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.