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You generally can't add an extra coach to a high speed train. They are fixed in formations of 4-9 or so coaches, sometimes with one set of wheels shared between
by Symbiote 3y ago
You generally can't add an extra coach to a high speed train. They are fixed in formations of 4-9 or so coaches, sometimes with one set of wheels shared between two coaches. It is more aerodynamic and safer.
You can usually couple two whole sets together.
- bluGill 3y agoYou can in theory couple two whole sets together, but in practice you can't do this either because you need to rebuild all the stations along the way so the platforms are longer. You often can't even build only the busy stations bigger and seat people going to smaller stations on the one car that stops as the train will hang out of the station onto track and so some other train not stopping can't get by it.
- Symbiote 3y agoCoupling sets of 4, 5 or 6 coach trains together is done regularly. There are scheduled trains where this is done partway through the journey. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1j2e-R1cv9w https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1j2e-R1cv9w