User talk:EdinburghEngineer

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High-Speed Rail[edit]

Hello EdinburghEngineer. Thank you for your help on the High-Speed Rail page. As I proposed (in talk page) few months ago, I'm rewriting the High-Speed Rail page, and I actually works on History (very slowly). I need again to develop "rising of high speed rail in Europe and USA" about Italy and Spain, and I must write from scratch the chapters "TGV" and "Wake up of Asia". After that, lot of following chapter will be deleted (in accordance with the plan I proposed). Unfortunately, English is not my natural language, and it's kind that you correct my edits in a perfect English. Regards. --FlyAkwa (talk) 13:47, 14 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Very happy to help, I like your style of writing and the adjustments I have made are very minor;

Incidently I spent a year studying in France in Lyon and am fan of the TGV

To me high speed rail is about

> streamlining

> aluminimum body (ie minimum weight)

> jakobs bogies

> track alignment

> tilting (using cant or tilting train)

> ac power

> overhead wire design\ pantograph design

> powerful motors

> in cab signalling

> braking

> single deck double deck

It would be interesting to document in the article which train each of these was first employed

and which train they were all put all together.

Hello EdinburghEngineer. I'm happy you're fan of TGV. You are from England I presume. I'm in France, near Paris, at 50 km from the city, on the classic Paris-Chartres-Le Mans-Brest line.

The streamlining is very old, some steam-locomotive are streamlined.

As you can read in the history I wrote recently, jakobs is found on the Fliegender Hamburger, tilting is found on the pendolino and was tested on the ATP, ac-power is used on Shinkansen after a french idea, current channeling at high speed has been tested during 1955 speed record, in cab signaling seems to be an invention for the french Capitole, double deck has been developper by Japanese (at "low" speed) and France (at "high" speed).

I will be pleased to continue our discussion by mail. You can write me at la_taille(a)yahoo.com

Regards. --FlyAkwa (talk) 21:27, 16 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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