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:
“Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get there. In his own pure individuality a man surpasses his father and mother, and is utterly unknown to them.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Life is too short to waste
In critic peep or cynic bark,
Quarrel or reprimand:
‘Twill soon be dark;
Up, heed thine own aim, and
God speed the mark!”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)