I have heard many stories of people getting hurt or even dying on train tracks because they were hit by the train. Aside from obvious intentional damage that someone wants to inflict on themselves, what makes it so dangerous to be walking on them? You can see the train, it makes vibrations, there are so many signs that are around that a train is coming, couldn’t you simply walk out of the way?
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One of the huge problems with trains is that some of them make a shitload of noise. Those are the really heavy ones, that go slowly. Filled with cargo. When you feel the vibrations on the track from them, they’re still a mile away. And they are heard long before you see them.
The high speed passenger trains, that’s a whole different story. When you feel the vibrations from them, they are already too close. You don’t have time to get out of the way. When the train driver sees you, you are already too close. If he hits the brakes fully, the train will still be moving at a speed lethal for you when it hits you.
It’s totally useless for high speed trains to slow down in bad weather. Fog? Passing a train station? Full speed. There is no use slowing down, because it won’t change the outcome. They are literally hitting everything they see, and can’t avoid it. There is no use adapting to poor visual conditions, because the visual condition is too poor to begin with.
It’s literally part of their training, that they will be technically unable to stop for people who stand on the tracks. That hitting them, killing them, is a fact of life. That they sit in the front of this really heavy piece of machinery that is only able to safely stop for already known obstacles. Where I live, in Sweden, train drivers are – statistically – killing someone while working sometime throughout their career. Every. Train. Driver. Hits. And. Kills. Someone. And. Can. Do. Nothing. About. It. Except. Watching. It. Inevitably. Happen.
You…can at least stay off the tracks for the sake of their mental health, alright?
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