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It never went into production and it wasn't any faster that existing trainsets at the time so I guess it might not necessarily fit in this thread, but I recently found an image online of the first Talgo train design produced, in 1942, and I was struck at how advanced and futuristic the design looks for that time

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Train enthusiasts will be familiar with Talgo's innovative heritage but considering this was 1942, and that Spain had just come out of a devastating Civil War that had bankrupted it and destroyed its industry, this seems to me to be a very advanced design for the company to come up with (unless there were similar ones elsewhere at the time I'm not aware of). Almost as if a science fiction writer had been allowed to design it.
 
High speed trains don't really exist as a distinct thing any more, at least in the sense they did a few decades ago. Boundaries have been blurred un various ways. I may expand on this argument in due course.
 
High speed trains don't really exist as a distinct thing any more, at least in the sense they did a few decades ago. Boundaries have been blurred un various ways. I may expand on this argument in due course.
But I need to know why I’m wrong now.
 
It never went into production and it wasn't any faster that existing trainsets at the time so I guess it might not necessarily fit in this thread, but I recently found an image online of the first Talgo train design produced, in 1942, and I was struck at how advanced and futuristic the design looks for that time

Foto1gran.jpg


Train enthusiasts will be familiar with Talgo's innovative heritage but considering this was 1942, and that Spain had just come out of a devastating Civil War that had bankrupted it and destroyed its industry, this seems to me to be a very advanced design for the company to come up with (unless there were similar ones elsewhere at the time I'm not aware of). Almost as if a science fiction writer had been allowed to design it.

We need bimble's judgment on this design - friendly or scary?
 
And the seats seem to line up with the windows - who would have thought such a feat of engineering was even possible :eek: truly a technological marvel
It will never catch on. Can you believe there were no seats facing a blank piece of wall. And, showing the Chinese really can’t run a Railway, everyone had a seat, can you believe that, people were denied the chance to stand for four hours next to the toilets. Amateurs.
 
It will never catch on. Can you believe there were no seats facing a blank piece of wall. And, showing the Chinese really can’t run a Railway, everyone had a seat, can you believe that, people were denied the chance to stand for four hours next to the toilets. Amateurs.

This is what comes about when you sit around all day smoking opium
 
If we were less squeamish about bulldozing people's homes, slicing up nature reserves and so on, we too could have high speed railways like China.
 
If we were less squeamish about bulldozing people's homes, slicing up nature reserves and so on, we too could have high speed railways like China.



Didn’t you post the other day about banning private cars and short- haul air travel? So no one can travel at all, just sit in our darkened hovels eating lichen based gruel waiting to die?

The Chinese have built a maglev from downtown Shanghai to the airport. Apparently it’s blisteringly fast, almost but not quite, as fast as you can suck the joy out of life...
 
It actually stops some way short of the centre. You have to take the metro the rest of the way.

Apparently it stops in the middle of nowhere due to the public being concerned that if it tunnelled under their houses it could cause cancer, like mobile phones do...
 
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