On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 09:47:54 +0100
Roland Perry wrote:
There must be more to it than that. There's no reason they couldn't have full
acceleration but with the top speed still limited. The signalling as an
excuse makes no sense to me , there is a fixed distance between signals and
its up to the drivers how they get between them. Surely getting up to line
speed as fast as possible would benefit everyone?

Not if that means you are travelling too fast (to stop) when the next
signal looms into view.

Thats down to driver training surely.

And then there's the energy consumption.

If that were a concern then all new trains on the system would be limited to
a snails pace. But thats not the case.

B2003