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"Coach shown is actually an inspection saloon rather than an autocoach." was written on the article page, apparently in reference to Image:GWR autocoach on Severn Valley Railway.jpg. Assistance is needed from someone with clue to sort this out. -- Beland 01:16, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
The GWR first started using their autotrains in 1905. Were they the first to develop the concept of a push-pull train? (This page is sorely lacking any history of the topic!) EdJogg 17:22, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
Following the Metrolink crash in Glendale, CA in 2005 there was talk that the push-pull method of locomotion was inherently dangerous. I can't find anything to explain why this would be so. Can anyone help? Chops79 ( talk) 22:45, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
"This is also frequent in trains of the Swiss railway SBB." I would say this is incorrect. I have never seen such trains with the SBB (I live in Switzerland). The only place it may occur regularly is on the Zentralbahn, which is a metre-gauge operator, which couples two three-carriage push-pull trains together when not operating on rack-and-rail sections (i.e. dvt, carriage, motorised carriage, with the dvt leading uphill, with two such trains together before reaching steep sections, with extra carriages on the back sometimes for part of the route). The SBB itself doesn't use any such configurations, as far as I have seen. It is possible that a push-pull train has extra carriages attached on the back at peak times, i.e. onto the locomotive if it is at the back, but I have only seen these as normal carriages once or twice (no dvt, i.e. not capable of driving), but usually some extra carriages with dvt are added on the dvt end. I think the claim should therefore be removed. However it probably is worth mentioning that a large part of the Swiss train-fleet is operating as push-pull, mainly using the Re 460 and accompanying single or double deck carriages. Qualalol ( talk) 21:42, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
I have now removed the sentence. Note: I have noticed a "locomotive in the middle" arrangement on the Matterhorn-Gotthard bahn, however this isn't a true locomotive in the middle, since it is a push-pull set (driving carriage, 2-3 standard carriages, locomotice) with 2+ additional carriages attached on the tail end, i.e. onto the locomotive if it is pushing, onto the driving carriage if pulling. Qualalol ( talk) 16:18, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
Where did the information provided in this article originate? How do readers know it is accurate and reliable? User2346 ( talk) 06:17, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
Is Queensland Rail's "Spirit of Queensland" train a Push-pull train, or a demu?
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"Coach shown is actually an inspection saloon rather than an autocoach." was written on the article page, apparently in reference to Image:GWR autocoach on Severn Valley Railway.jpg. Assistance is needed from someone with clue to sort this out. -- Beland 01:16, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
The GWR first started using their autotrains in 1905. Were they the first to develop the concept of a push-pull train? (This page is sorely lacking any history of the topic!) EdJogg 17:22, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
Following the Metrolink crash in Glendale, CA in 2005 there was talk that the push-pull method of locomotion was inherently dangerous. I can't find anything to explain why this would be so. Can anyone help? Chops79 ( talk) 22:45, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
"This is also frequent in trains of the Swiss railway SBB." I would say this is incorrect. I have never seen such trains with the SBB (I live in Switzerland). The only place it may occur regularly is on the Zentralbahn, which is a metre-gauge operator, which couples two three-carriage push-pull trains together when not operating on rack-and-rail sections (i.e. dvt, carriage, motorised carriage, with the dvt leading uphill, with two such trains together before reaching steep sections, with extra carriages on the back sometimes for part of the route). The SBB itself doesn't use any such configurations, as far as I have seen. It is possible that a push-pull train has extra carriages attached on the back at peak times, i.e. onto the locomotive if it is at the back, but I have only seen these as normal carriages once or twice (no dvt, i.e. not capable of driving), but usually some extra carriages with dvt are added on the dvt end. I think the claim should therefore be removed. However it probably is worth mentioning that a large part of the Swiss train-fleet is operating as push-pull, mainly using the Re 460 and accompanying single or double deck carriages. Qualalol ( talk) 21:42, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
I have now removed the sentence. Note: I have noticed a "locomotive in the middle" arrangement on the Matterhorn-Gotthard bahn, however this isn't a true locomotive in the middle, since it is a push-pull set (driving carriage, 2-3 standard carriages, locomotice) with 2+ additional carriages attached on the tail end, i.e. onto the locomotive if it is pushing, onto the driving carriage if pulling. Qualalol ( talk) 16:18, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
Where did the information provided in this article originate? How do readers know it is accurate and reliable? User2346 ( talk) 06:17, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
Is Queensland Rail's "Spirit of Queensland" train a Push-pull train, or a demu?