The Train That Never Stops

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Read how it would work below, before viewing the video link.

 

A brilliant new Chinese train idea is for passengers to get on and off a bullet train without the train stopping.

 

No time is wasted. The bullet train is moving all the time. If there were 30 stations between Beijing and Guangzhou, just stopping and accelerating again at each station will waste both energy and time.

 

A mere 5 min. stop per station (elderly passengers cannot be hurried) will result in a total loss of 5 min. x 30 stations or 2.5 hours of train journey time!

 

To learn how it would work, read the text below and then view the video. (The video commentary is in Mandarin!)

 

1. For those who are boarding the train: The passengers at a station embark onto to a connector cabin way before the train even arrives at the station. When the train arrives, it will not stop. It just slows down to pick up the connector cabin which will move with the train on the roof of the train.

 

While the train is still moving away from the station, those passengers will board the train from the connector cabin mounted on the train's roof. After fully unloading all its passengers, the connector cabin will be moved to the back of the train so that the next batch of outgoing passengers who want to alight at the next station will board the connector cabin at the rear of the train roof.

 

2. For those who are getting off: As stated, after fully unloading all its passengers, the connector cabin will be moved to the back of the train so that the next batch of outgoing passengers who want to alight at the next station will board the connector cabin at the rear of the train roof. When the train arrives at the next station, it will simply drop the whole connector cabin at the station itself and leave it behind at the station. The outgoing passengers can take their own time to disembark at the station while the train has already left. At the same time, the train will pick up the incoming embarking passengers on another connector cabin in the front part of the train's roof. So the train will always drop one connector cabin at the rear of its roof and pick up a new connector cabin in the front at each station.

 

3. This is called innovative thinking.

 

 

 

[Ian7]

hardly straightforward to execute, but BRILLIANT !