Maximum Speed
The term "maximum speed" has many meanings here. It can reflect:
- maximum average speed between two scheduled stops based on the running times in timetables – daily operation.
- maximum speed at which a train is allowed to run safely as set by law or policy on a straight section in daily service with minimal constraints (MOR)
- the maximum speed at which an unmodified train is proved to be capable of running
- the maximum speed a specially modified train is proved to be capable of running.
Read more about this topic: High-speed Rail
Famous quotes containing the words maximum and/or speed:
“Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)
“If it be aught toward the general good,
Set honor in one eye, and death i’th’ other,
And I will look on both indifferently;
For let the gods so speed me as I love
The name of honor more than I fear death.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)