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Re: [Phys-l] The train never stops at a station - Chinese Concept



I just discovered tis from a year ago.


The train never stops at a station - Chinese Concept
to those among you who a at least a bit technically inclined


Watch the animated video to understand how it exactly works......
AMAZING: Chinese Concept - The train that never stops at a station:

A brilliant new Chinese train innovation - get on & off the bullet
train without the train stopping. VERY COOL CONCEPT!
No time is wasted. The bullet train is moving all the time. If there
are 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!

How it works (view the movie - in mandarin though!):

1. For those who are boarding the train : The passengers at a station
embarks onto to a connector cabin way before the train even arrives at
the station. When the train arrives, it will not stop at all. 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 cabin
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 cabin 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 had 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 part of the
train's roof at each station.

Innovation? No, may be invention!