Passengers from Italy to Switzerland affected: new trains are too high for cross-border tunnel
a Caravaggio double-decker train of Trenord Trenord
Italian operator Trenord is facing backlash for troubles on the train connection between Italy and Switzerland on the Milan – Como San Giovanni – Chiasso route. New Caravaggio-type trains in use for two years are not made to reach Switzerland being too high for the tunnels, so when the older trains which can cross the border break down, it leaves passengers stranded.
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At Market, since long, clients, ware owners have shifted to On Demand, thus for now, equally proving a top modern, a now optimal transport device railways no longer may remain the device that is short of redundant capacity!
(All other modes those, robust, they upgrade for added load and lower costs, etc.!)
Bottlenecks may not be constructed for!
Maybe you need to change the title??? Too”small” for the tunnels?? Don’t you mean too TALL?
If reliability is a problem why don’t they just run with redundant locos? This isn’t rocket science.
For travelers switching trains in a nice station is no big deal, but getting stranded from breakdowns is. This article is running with the wrong lead.
Didn’t this also happen in Spain -_-
Yes, Mihai, agreed!
Now, as at all other vital and vulnerable functions of society, railway power supply safely, urgently has to prove redundant! Railway shall learn from industry of automobil… (Success story of car industry and road transports started when the automobil and the explosion engine ensured a robust power supply.)
Simply, overhead energy supply of railways, by continuously running wires…, no longer is optimal.
Hello- fix the title! As written three times before. Tall, not little.
Tall is not “small”