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Want to try that again? The short stagings between the tracks show where the coupling and uncoupling happens. I don't see a curve. I've also never seen them have any problem attaching or detaching there.
If an HST is a 253/4 unit surely it should carry a 253xxx/254xxx unit number, can anyone supply a current list of numbers? If not then they're loco + stock.
Hydro kinetic brakes were necessary to stop from high speed without overheating the regular brakes and the tilt was necessary to maintain the high speed so I reckon you're wrong on both counts there. :wink:
But that's necessary for what they do, 92s need the redundancy in case of a failure in the tunnel and the 373s need the power to reach their top speed and provide enough oomph in one half set if the other half goes bang.
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