12-11-2020, 02:58 PM
(12-11-2020, 02:52 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: There are perfectly straight sections of track where this is an issue. Slowing down around turns is reasonable but trains going straight along Northfield which last time I was there, were limited to 50km/h when surrounding traffic is limited to 60km/h and routinely exceeds 80km/h. They are separated from the road with fully controlled cross traffic, and the track is straight.
I agree. I have some questions about some of their cornering speeds — it really feels like they slow to a crawl, beyond what should be needed — but my big concern is with long segments of straight or near straight track where they go not much faster and it’s clear that it’s just the rules, not the result of an engineering decision to make a curve a particular radius.