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Old 7th February 2009, 09:41
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Hi James. The trains on the Underground system have pick-up shoes at both ends and also on some of the intermediate cars, so a short gap in the live rail is not a problem; if one shoe loses contact there are always others to continue feeding the motors with current without any interruption. This is how they manage to continue running over points, crossings etc.
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