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Old January 1st 12, 04:33 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,misc.transport.rail.europe
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Default Complete (almost) Shutdown of Berlin Train System - could ithappen here...??

On 01/01/2012 16:48, Hans-Joachim Zierke wrote:

Wolfgang Schwanke schrieb:


By US standards, it would be, but by US standards, the ICE is a light
rail system, too.


What?



Have a look at the weight of the Acela, in order to understand the
sentence. Acela is, what you get with FRA regulations.


Okay, this might be more useful for understanding:
http://zierke.com/shasta_route/siden...tyconcept.html




Hans-Joachim





Why are there two cab signal indicators in the photo? The upper one
looks like it has five aspects, by the way, whereas I thought that the
NEC has only four.