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What are the factors (both technical and operational) that affect the average speed of passenger and goods trains? 1 Answers What are the factors (both technical and operational) that affect the average speed of passenger and goods trains? Oct 08 2020 (10:50) Blog Post# 4737991-0 Guest: 6cd1bab5 Added by: BengaluruDiaries^~ Oct 08 2020 (10:51) Question: What are the factors (both technical and operational) that affect the average speed of passenger and goods trains? Answer: A train runs a 100 km line at 50 kmph. If we neglect accelerating and decelerating time, we have time of the journey 2 hrs. But if the train must stop somewhere en route for to give way to another train (eg. on a single track line) , it must stop for 6 minutes (0.1 hrs). Then (again neglecting accelerating and decelerating time) we have real speed 100/2.1=47.62 kmph. Increasing the top... more... |