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what if the real train comes?
by leugim 5y ago
what if the real train comes?
- robin_reala 5y agoDirect quote from the site: ALWAYS KEEP IN MIND, you should use railbikes ONLY on ABANDONED lines!!
- FridayoLeary 5y agoSounds like the disclaimer they use when selling e-scooters... ("this is not for the road etc.")
- bananapear 5y agoOr another Railbike travelling in the opposite direction?
- viraptor 5y agoThen you stop, take one off the rails and swap positions.
- robin_reala 5y agoIf it’s like the ones I’ve been on, you either lift them off the rails, or if you’re just hiring them, sometimes just both turn yours the other way and swap.
- Kaibeezy 5y agoDefinitely an issue with personal rail travel, whether from the opposite direction or an unclearable traffic jam in the same direction, and whether two rails or mono. See also: Shweeb - https://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/shweeb-how-new-zealands-hyperloop-contender-became-a-theme-park-attraction/DVUF34W3EM3HHXWML2INVE6GVU/ https://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/shweeb-how-new-zealands-hy...
- queuep 5y agoThe ones I've rode look like these[0], so in case they are running in different directions, you can easily lift up the one side with just one wheel on both vehicles, and then just push them. Simple and not a heavy lift either. [0] https://hemomkringvandring.se/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_20200620_131838-scaled-e1592716917654.jpg https://hemomkringvandring.se/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG...
- evanb 5y agoObviously you must stick to the schedule to allow for passing of oncoming or overtaking rail traffic at sidings.
- PhasmaFelis 5y agoOne of you gets off the track to allow the other to pass. A normal bicycle can be lifted in one hand. This looks more unwieldy but not too much heavier. It shouldn't be hard. (If two riders are both so oblivious that neither sees the other coming from at least a quarter-mile off, they deserve to crash.)
- exporectomy 5y agoFrom the pictures, it looks like it has plastic guide wheels but if it were conductive to short out the two rails, it would activate the signals and any trains will be stopped before they reach you.
- mschuster91 5y agoDo not ever rely on this sort of safety mechanism. There are also systems in use that rely on axle counters and bookkeeping - basically, on each block they count the incoming and the outgoing axles. When your draisine now is either too lightweight to trigger an axle counter or you set it on the rails in the middle of a block, the ops central won't know you are there.
- Symbiote 5y agoEven simpler, there are systems that use a physical token. To proceed into a section of track, the train driver/guard must physically possess an object, typically handed over at a station just before the section, and returned just after. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Token_(railway_signalling) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Token_(railway_signalling)
- exporectomy 5y agoNever knew about axle counters. In the UK, they use a jumper cable to stop trains in an emergency.
- iggldiggl 5y agoWhile the UK has indeed stuck to almost exclusively using track circuits for a very long time [1], within the last two decades axle counters have become much more common. [1] With some exceptions – the Severn Tunnel e.g. was switched to axle counters already in 1987 because track circuits proved too unreliable within the (wet) environment of the tunnel.