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Originally Posted by Deathbyteacup
I've never seen a train or tram's brakes apply automatically due to TPWS is it? Not sure what the system is on Metrolink but I hear it's quite violent breaking.
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Speaking about trains only now - I wish it was violent. Don't believe what you see on the telly. TPWS will put the brakes into emergency, which on our units is 12%G. It's a bit of a lurch, but wouldn't put your nose against the windscreen. There's no point in braking too hard as the steel wheel on a steel rail would just lock up and be inefficient, even with wheelslide protection (the railway equivalent of ABS).
(As an aside, when they first mentioned the revised braking forces they had a typo in the document which said that we would be experiencing
12G - now THAT really would be classed as violent
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