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Accident waiting to happen or innovative idea?
 
Paul Priestman, director of Priestmangoode, came up with the idea to dock two trains together to move passengers to/from high-speed rail without stopping the whole main train. Everyone travels to their destination faster and the overall system reduces the energy drain on the world, all by not stopping the connecting train. The company boasts that this concept "can potentially revolutionize the rail industry the way the internet revolutionized the way we communicate."
 
To adopt this system, every stop would have to be fitted with this new train pairing. That might be a lot to ask of the locations. As Priestman said, "The world is going to be a very different place in 10 to 20 years time, and we have to think of alternative ways of travel."  Combine this concept with the Japanese experimental MLX01 train, at 581km/h (361 mph), and domestic air travel would be a thing of the past.
 
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  • An obstruction in either path would create a horrendous accident involving both trains. The track needed to approach matching speed could be quite long, adding more maintenance to the overall system.

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    I like it.  Simple to implement.  Entirely safe exit and egress.  Best of all, very energy efficient.  Most of the train's energy is lost by stopping and speeding back up.  As long as you do not have a systems failure, you can keep the train running indeffinitely.

     

    Cool.

     

    DAB

  • I just found that the idea seems fairly similar to a Taiwanese concept from inventor Peng Yu-Ium back in 2007.

     

    If you can stand the odd audio, have a look.