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Tech/Engineering - Transport / Transportation / Shipping / trains for mining | | German term or phrase: entgleisungssichere Bahnsysteme | I have very little context to go on, and an urgent deadline for this translation!!!
My text is talking about the products that a company makes. These include "entgleisungssichere Bahnsysteme".....
"entgleisungssichere Bahnen sind die einzigen, mit denen ..... Steigungen von mehr als 13° ... bewältigt werden können"
I've found "rail-bound", but I'm not a railway buff and am not sure if that term is quite sufficient.
Where are the railway experts today?
Thanks!
Alison |
| | | a railway system proof against derailments | Explanation:
There is no such thing; the nearest we get to it is the transrapid, or Maglev (magnetic levitation) system, and we all know that even THAT'S not proof against accidents, don't we....
That is proof against derailments because the "go-thing" actually wraps around its track, as the link below shows. This is perhaps best described as a "track-guided transport system proof against derailments".
[PDF] Technology Comparison: High Speed Ground Transportation Transrapid ...
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guideway. In addition, since the Transrapid vehicle wraps around the guideway beam, a. derailment is virtually impossible. JetTrain ...
faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/transrapid-jettrain1.pdf
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 David Moore
Local time: 10:37
| Grading comment Thanks to you both. I ended up checking with my customer and they confirmed that there was no such thing as a "derailment-proof" train system, and that they did actually mean rail-bound.
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