Non stopping train and passenger pick up/set down ...

[ozbob]

PURE GENIUS- The train that never stops at a station YET PASSANGERS GET ON & OFF

A new Chinese train innovation - How to get on & off the bullet train without stopping.

No time is wasted.  The bullet train is moving all the time.  If there are 30 stations between Beijing and Guangzhou, just stopping and accelerating again at each station will waste both energy and time. A mere 5 min stop per station (elderly passengers cannot be hurried) will result in a total loss of 5 min x 30 stations or 2.5 hours of train journey time!

The Chinese are innovative enough to come up with a non-stopping train concept.

When the train arrives at a station, it will not stop at all.

The passengers at a station embarked onto to a connector cabin way before the train even arrives at the station.

When the train arrives, it will not stop at all.

It just slows down to pick up the connector cabin which will move with the train on the roof of the train.

While the train is still travelling away from the station, those passengers will board the train from the connector cabin mounted on the train's roof.

After fully unloading all its passengers, the cabin connector cabin will be moved to the back of the train so that the next batch of outgoing passengers who want to alight at the next station will board the connector cabin at the rear of the train roof.

When the train arrives at the next station,  it simply drops the whole connector cabin at the station itself and leaves it behind at the station.

The outgoing passengers can take their own time to disembark at the station while the train had already left.

At the same time, the train will pick up the incoming embarking passengers on another connector cabin in the front part of the train's roof.

So the train will always drop one connector cabin at the rear of its roof and pick up a new connector cabin in the front part of the train's roof at each station.

Source: unknown

[ozbob]

This has been done before slightly differently for dropping pax off:  Slip coaches,  don't think it was done in the great south land where wombats roam, but regularly done in the UK

eg. --> http://mikes.railhistory.railfan.net/r134.html