"Boltar" wrote in message
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Robin May wrote in message
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Are you stupid? A train is several times longer than a car or bus and
even more times heavier.

No **** sherlock. And consequently they should be built a damn site
stronger
than road vehicles. Obviously this is not the case, at least not for tube
trains. If any vehicle crumples up at such a low speed it doesn't say a
lot
thats good about the design. Perhaps they should have used the same team
who designed the mainline mk3, probably one of the safest vehicles on
wheels.

It's entirely sensible for trains to crumple on impact, to absorb some of
the force of the collision.