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by xxpor
876 days ago
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Do you have data to back up that trains in Europe are safer than the US (for passengers, pedestrians get hit a lot. Getting hit by a train is bad regardless)? The FRA refuses to let us use European light trainsets because they're "unsafe", because they're too light. They're worried about collisions with freight trains. |
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As for European light trainsets not surviving collisions with freight trains: trains generally don't fare well in high speed collisions. And at low speed collisions European commuter trains (something like [2]) would be doing fine, meanwhile light rail (like [3]) isn't designed to collide with anything heavier than a truck. I don't think anybody in Europe runs freight trains on shared tracks with light rail.
1: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2011/06/02/comparative-ra...
2: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DB-Baureihe_430#/media/Datei:1...
3: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/K4500_VB...