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The way most countries do it, the sleeper runs at whatever speed, and then just gets shunted to an out of the way platform, and the passengers have to disembark
by TylerE 4y ago
The way most countries do it, the sleeper runs at whatever speed, and then just gets shunted to an out of the way platform, and the passengers have to disembark by a certain time. But - and this is the key difference - anyone wanting an earlier start can depart as soon as they wish once the train has arrived at the destination.
Trains also don't get to take a very straight route... it goes west quite aways from central LA until it hits the coast, and then follows the coast north. It's certainly not HSR.
- jzwinck 4y agoWhich countries (or trains) do that? I've taken night trains in four different countries and none of them worked like that. I wish they did.
- TylerE 4y agoUK. They have a lot less sleepers than they did 30 or 40 years ago though, when most of the main lines were limited to 70-85mph, and not the 125 the majors ones are today. What they'd also do, on multi-stop routes, is arrange the passengers by destination, back to front, so when they hit the first stop they'd just uncouple the back car or two, then continue on.
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y ago> They have a lot less sleepers than they did 30 or 40 years ago though, I could be wrong, but I think you meant to write "they only have 1 sleeper" (Euston -> Fort William/Dundee) [ EDIT: ah, two routes. There's the one to Penzance as well ] It does not behave in the way previously described (at least, it did not when I took it in 2019).
- TylerE 4y agoThe Caledonian still runs London -> Edinburgh.
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoYeah, I mispoke with Dundee. The Caledonian runs to Fort William as its furthest extent, but also splits somewhere in Borders to get some carriages to Edinburgh.
- 0xfaded 4y agoHad that happen in Stockholm. The train stopped, my phone said I was in Stockholm, I panicked and jumped out. Was 4am.
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- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoI find that mode of operation extremely disruptive. Part of the point of sleeping on train is sleeping on a moving train, and to sense at 03:00 or whatever that the train has stopped, permanently, destroys my ability to sleep.