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Subject: Re: [OM] Train Crash
From: Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 07:14:53 +0200
It looks like the one, also the name Talgo is used for these express services 
(but not AVE). 

Whether it is illegal to photograph trains here, no idea. Could be some 
Franco-era law that was never updated--after all, we are not exactly talking a 
high-priority area of life here. What I can tell you that it is not enforced. I 
have taken many pictures over the years at places like Madrid's Atocha station 
(the site of the 2004 terrorist bombings on commuter trains that killed 200 
people), in the presence of various security/police types, with never a problem.

We just got an AVE line to Madrid from here. 440 km covered in a relatively 
slow 2:20 hours, but then again, it stops three times along the way, and they 
will speed it up to under 2 hours next year.

Cheers,
Nathan



Nathan Wajsman
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On Jul 26, 2013, at 4:44 AM, Chris Trask wrote:

>> 
>> A couple of clarifications: the train was not a high-speed (AVE) train. It 
>> was travelling on AVE tracks 
>> (which have a different gauge than standard Spanish rail) but it was a 
>> new(ish) type of hybrid train that 
>> can make use of both sets of tracks. It cannot reach the AVE speeds of 300 
>> km/h, only somewhere around 
>> 200 km/h.
>> 
> 
>     I found some photos of RENFE passenger tains on RailPictures.net, among 
> which were:
> 
>     http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=441404&nseq=13
> 
>     http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=441398&nseq=14
> 
>     Are this the same type as in this morning's crash?  If I enlarge it I 
> notice that there is just a single axle between each carriage, rather than 
> the 2-axle wheelset found on the TGV.  I'd be a bit uneasy about the 
> stability of a train with such an arrangement at high speed.
> 
>     Also, on TrainWeb I learned that it is illegal to photograph railway 
> equipment unless you have a permit.  Is this correct?  Sounds like something 
> from the facist era of Francisco Franco.
> 
> 
> Chris
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