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    Manchmal scheint London zu zerbrechlich für diese Welt


    Manchmal scheint London zu zerbrechlich für diese Welt

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    3. QuastQuan on

      The four apocalyptic horsemen of the German Railways are named
      * spring
      * summer
      * autumn and
      * winter

      causing delays of several hours.

    4. Agreeable-Weather-89 on

      To be fair leaves are a big problem, trains are very low friction (metal on metal), so a further reduction of friction means

      1. Takes longer to accelerate

      2. Takes longer to break

      These combined mean a lower average speed

    5. fruce_ki on

      London does feel held together with duct tape and wishful thinking…

    6. pepperomiia on

      I remember once on a perfect sunny day trains were delayed due to “sunlight hitting the signal at the wrong angle”. When it comes to reasons for train delays, it seems the list is endless

    7. furniturecats on

      Stupid post.
      Leaves on rails are like driving on ice. Dangerous.
      I”d rather be a bit late than involved in a train crash.

    8. Broad-Part9448 on

      A comment from America. If you have trees everywhere you’re gonna have leaves everywhere. Every autumn in my area there are a shit load of leaves everywhere. Like all over the fucking place several inches deep.

      We don’t have any trains (lol) but if we did I bet it would fuck them up pretty bad for a little while as they clear shit away.

    9. OllieV_nl on

      Trains have that same problem here and around Europe.

      Summer: tracks too hot, points expanded

      Autumn: leaves on the track make wheels slippery

      Winter: tracks too cold, points frozen

      Spring: uhm let’s just make something up.

    10. Suikerspin_Ei on

      Same with NS (Dutch Railways) in the Netherlands. Leafs, snow (frozen road switches) or heat being the enemy of the railroads.

    11. missionarymechanic on

      Wet leaves prevent stopping. Dry leaves catch fire due to arcing. Leaves and trains don’t go together.

    14. tkyjonathan on

      Forget London overground. Southern Rail drivers decide whether to cancel a train by sticking their finger in their mouth and checking for wind. If there is wind, they cancel the train.

    15. sokorsognarf on

      This notice is so UK. The excess of litigation-averse and complaint-avoidant signage and announcements is something I really don’t miss

    17. THBLD on

      My favourite so far in Germany was, train can cannot arrive at station due to a bridge on the track being on fire.

      It was during one summer where Germany experienced forest fires for the first “real” time.

    18. Creepy_Assistant7517 on

      Londoners, being attacked by freaking CRUISE MISSILES during the Blitz: *”Keep calm and carry on.”*
      Londoners today, after seeing two snowflakes: *”OH MY GOD, THE END IS NIGH! STOP ALL TRAVEL IMMEDIATELY!”*

    19. Whooptidooh on

      Over here in The Netherlands it’s a hard guarantee that several trains will be late due to fallen foliage on the rails. Every damn year it’s the same.

    20. Matchbreakers on

      Tbf, wet autumn leaves have the same function on rails as particularly slippery soap, it makes trains neigh on uncontrollable at speed. It’s such a problem experiments with flamethrowers and lasers to burn away the leave have been tested.

    21. KairraAlpha on

      Let’s not forget that London is classified as an ‘Urban Forest’ – it is one of the biggest urban forests in the world. There’s around 8.5 million trees growing across the city. During leaf shedding seasons, there’s a hell of a lot of leaves and they can often cause huge issues across the vast rail network in the city.

      It might sound stupid, but it’s legitimately a genuine issue.

    22. Firstpoet on

      Leaf mould compacted down over time creates an ice like residue. Can we stop this leaves on the line stuff? There is a solution but it would mean cutting down a few thousand trees.

    23. Tszemix on

      Autimn is quite boring in London and the rest of England. The leaves barely change color and just drops when they are halfway green and yellow.

    24. Barto on

      Have we seriously never tried putting brushes on the front of trains that clean the tracks like street sweepers?

    26. Demigans on

      This isn’t a joke or delicacy. It is a simple fact of trains.

      You have a multi-ton high speed vehicle standing on a surface that is designed to minimize friction. Slowing down requires a long distance and time. Now so long as it’s the metal wheels contacting the metal rails it is still reasonable to slow down in a useful time. But leaves mean you lose that metal on metal contact, they SERIOUSLY impact the breaking distance of trains. This problem is exponentially worse on busy traintracks where every train needs a certain distance to one another to make sure they can stop in an emergency, not to mention an overall lowered speed for places with special things like potentially dangerous railway crossings or railway bridges that can be raised.

      I mean just look at the teeny tiny surface area of the train wheels, and then think of the massive tonnage of the train cars all having to use that to stop in time, and this is then made worse.

    27. stopredlight on

      Network operators across the world know, they can put out all the cleaning trains and equipment but the leaves will still cause issues. Drastic tree management is the only real cure but it’s expensive and can be wrapped in red tape 🙃

    29. OneMoreFinn on

      It has nothing to do with London, and everything to do with rails and leaves. They turn into slippery mush that acts like grease on the tracks, and it happens everywhere where there are trains, rain and falling leaves.

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