Train Speed Optimization in Practice
The expensive and complicated installations usually only make sense for heavily used routes.
Swiss Federal Railways:
- Lenzburg-Killwangen (since 2000)
- Zurich-Altstetten
- Around Olten (installed 2004, current status unknown)
- Probably other places (Zürich S-Bahn?)
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Famous quotes containing the words train, speed and/or practice:
“The train rounds, bending to a scream,
Taking the final level for the dive
Under the river—”
—Hart Crane (1899–1932)
“There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
“Toddlers who don’t learn gradually about disappointment lose their resilience through lack of practice in give-and-take with other people’s needs. They can become self-centered, demanding, and difficult to like or to be with.”
—Alicia F. Lieberman (20th century)