- Tuesday, April 23, 2024
By: Eastern Eye Staff
India will collaborate with Switzerland for developing trains which will tilt on approaching a bend, just like a motorbike on a winding road. A memorandum of understanding was signed on Thursday between the two countries in this regard. Such trains are now operational in 11 countries — Italy, Portugal, Slovenia, Finland, Russia, the Czech Republic, the UK, Switzerland, China, Germany and Romania. Explaining how the tilting trains work, officials said that as a train rounds a curve at speed it causes objects to slide about. “While it makes seated passengers feel squashed by the armrest, standing passengers tend to lose their balance.…
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