TIL what the train I took everyday does at the end of the stations

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u/JDrage51 11h ago

So either it's all automated, or that driver is sonic the frickin hedgehog for swapping ends that quick 😂

Or there's another driver but I like my sonic idea.

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u/calikim_mo 11h ago

Hahaha sonic driver would be cool 😆 but it is automated and there is no driver

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u/JDrage51 11h ago

Tbh that's still quite cool

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u/bender-the-great 11h ago

It's even better. We don't need humans anymore.

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u/giraffebaconequation 7h ago

Judging by the downvotes I think people missed the joke related to your username.

Silly humans, no sense of humour.

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u/Plastic-Technician70 3h ago

Judging by the downvotes I think people missed the joke related to your username.

Silly humans, no sense of humour.

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u/giraffebaconequation 7h ago

Judging by the downvotes I think people missed the joke related to your username.

Silly humans, no sense of humour.

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u/TheKnightWhoSaisNi 7h ago

Judging by the downvotes I think people missed the joke related to your username.

Silly humans, no sense of humour.

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u/paprartillery 7h ago

Sonic Driver sounds like a great band name, frankly. "Do 'Locomotive Breath!'"

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u/mickynuts 11h ago

Automated metro It seems to me. In Lausanne, we have one that does a similar thing to go from one platform to another and sometimes to wait a few minutes during rush hour.

https://preview.redd.it/3m7fhjhzaqce1.jpeg?width=2880&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0eae0387dca80f9027e153e603176b0f1a267685

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u/ierdna100 5h ago

Likely automated as others have mentionned, but I would like to bring up the Montreal metro quickly (automatic, but its not GoA4 so it requires a driver still for backup).

The drivers get in the other cabin at the last stop, and as soon as the first driver hits the reversing stub track, the other driver can pick up control. Not that this happens (they usually stack 2 trains to give them time to swap properly), but they still do it.

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u/Jacktheforkie 10h ago

Pretty much all EMUs/DMUs etc are bidirectional

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u/Living-Support3920 7h ago

Neat! Is this at Putrajaya Sentral?

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u/calikim_mo 7h ago

Yes it is! How do you know haha

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u/Living-Support3920 7h ago

A few minutes on Google Maps satellite. 😁

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u/calikim_mo 7h ago

Wait...what??? How do you even know what country is this?

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u/Living-Support3920 7h ago

I'd seen "PYL" mention before on various subreddits, so I knew what country the line was in, and you confirmed it was a terminus in this comment thread, which gave me 2 choices to look up, and I compared your video to the satellite and street view imagery.

I'm not a stalker. ;-) I just like seeing where different cool train systems are.

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u/calikim_mo 7h ago

Well, damn that's impressive. Are you rainbolt? Haha

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u/Living-Support3920 7h ago

Haha, no. Just a train geek and a geography/maps geek.

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u/imaguitarhero24 3h ago

I love the internet lol

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u/HappyWarBunny 3h ago

Where did you see PYL?

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u/Living-Support3920 3h ago

Elsewhere in this comment thread. If you're asking about where I'd seen it before, I can't remember.

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u/woishing 11h ago

PYL my beloved

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u/calikim_mo 11h ago

PYL gang!

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u/hanwookie 5h ago

See trains! They're just like us! (seriously, end of the day, I zoom slightly past my driveway, then back into my parking spot.)

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u/Unholyworld419 8h ago

ayo the zoom and switch

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u/quecquec 5h ago

Ok, now I'm tempted to go to an end station just to see what happens...

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u/HowlingWolven 2h ago

Different from how ours do it! Ours change tracks once they come into the end station or once they depart.

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u/wgloipp 10h ago

Seems a wasted move when it could have just come into the same platform it leaves from.

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u/calikim_mo 10h ago

Cannot, the whole track/path is a complete circle

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u/LiGuangMing1981 9h ago

Unless there's no crossover there for the train to get back to the correct side. Maybe there was a reason for putting the crossover on this side of the station. Some of the lines here in Shanghai are like this as well.

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u/wgloipp 9h ago

You can literally see the crossover.

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u/LiGuangMing1981 9h ago

It's on the tail track. Coming into the station on the same platform that it leaves from would require a crossover on the other side of the station, which is what I was getting at in my original comment.

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u/wgloipp 8h ago

Ah, I see what you mean now. This isn't a terminus, I take it?

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u/soulserval 8h ago

This is a terminus, it has tail track so this manoeuvre can take place. In some parts of the world it helps with more efficient alighting and for future expansion of the line.

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u/wgloipp 5h ago

So where do those tracks go? I'm confused. Can you share a location?

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u/amtk1007 41m ago

They are short extensions that can be used to facilitate quicker turnaround times and to store out of service train sets.

This configuration also allows for passengers to be more sure of which train to board, as the terminating train is discharging only on one side of the station.

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u/FireTempest 5h ago

The reason for that is there was no room for a crossover track before the station's platform. This station was built above an existing commuter rail station so the designers had to work with space constraints.

In the terminus at the other end, the train does arrive and depart from the same platform with a cross platform transfer to another train line.

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