Class 380 Corridor Connection

[LucaZone]

Can anyone confirm if the amazing slant in the mock and designs of the Class 380 Desiro is actually serious?

It looks far to unlikely to operate I would have thought.

 

[MCR247]

Yeah, It moves when you couple, like 458s i think

 

[starrymarkb]

I was thinking more like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESbdlRiSaC8*

which is what a 458 should have been


*the video also shows the Japanese musical horns IIRC each class plays a different tune!

 

[ukrob]

Can anyone confirm if the amazing slant in the mock and designs of the Class 380 Desiro is actually serious?

It looks far to unlikely to operate I would have thought.

Well logic says that it is hinged and the top moves forward...

 

[MCR247]

I thought that with a 458, the corridor would just come forward to look like a train that just has a normal one. I didnt think there were doors and stuff that opened

 

[90019]

Well logic says that it is hinged and the top moves forward...

It's hinged at the bottom and moves out to horizontal, IIRC.
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I thought that with a 458, the corridor would just come forward to look like a train that just has a normal one. I didnt think there were doors and stuff that opened

You can see the two doors in this pic.

 

[MCR247]

Oh right

 

[starrymarkb]

and here are two joined...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/laurasia280/3422131368/

IIRC its a manual process to connect the gangways and takes about 20 mins!

 

[MCR247]

lol

 

[jopsuk]

The 458 connection isn't useable by the public though, as I understand it? Something o do with being a bit too narrow, and a step up? I'd assume that the 380's should be useable, much like 150/153/155/156/158/317 etc connectors?

I've yet to find somewhere showing the interior of the connection in use between these units, whilst we're doing wacky inter-unit connections.

 

[starrymarkb]

I've yet to find somewhere showing the interior of the connection in use between these units, whilst we're doing wacky inter-unit connections.

Like this?

 

[Bastiaan]

Or this. Interior of a Belgian AM96, taken from Railfaneurope.net.

 

[mackenzie_blu]

This made me laugh from the wiki page

"the characteristic large rubber diaphragms at the ends form a flush aerodynamic seal."

Whats the point of an aerodynamic connection when the front isn't aerodynamic?

 

[ukrob]

This made me laugh from the wiki page

"the characteristic large rubber diaphragms at the ends form a flush aerodynamic seal."

Whats the point of an aerodynamic connection when the front isn't aerodynamic?

It isn't just the front of a train that can be aerodynamic.

 

[jopsuk]

I'm not really sure "Aerodynamic" is the word they're really after, but I can't think how to put what I think they think they mean.

 

[poshbakerloo]

All that effort up in just to hide the corridor connection. Is it really worth it?

 

[ukrob]

All that effort up in just to hide the corridor connection. Is it really worth it?

Eh?