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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articlesavailable from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A tilting trainis a train that has a mechanism enabling increased speed on regular railtracks. As a train (or other vehicle) rounds a curve at speed, objectsinside the train experience centrifugal force. This can cause packagesto slide about or seated passengers to feel squashed by the outboardarmrest due to its centripetal force, and standing passengers to losetheir balance. Tilting trains are designed to counteract thisdiscomfort. In a curve to the left the train tilts to the left tocompensate for the g-force push to the right, and vice versa. The trainmay be constructed such that inertial forces cause the tilting (passivetilt), or it may have a computer-controlled power mechanism (activetilt). The first tilting train regularly put into public service was theETR 401 run by Italian State Railways, which became operational on 2July 1976 on the Rome-Ancona (later extended to Rimini) line. The firsttilting trains used passive tilt, as the Spanish Talgo Pendularoperational since 1980.…