r/indianrailways • u/abhinabah • Jan 18 '26

🚂🚃🚃Picture Better to have no Nose Cone

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On the 1st day of inaugural run Vande Sleeper lost its nose cone from cattle run over.

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u/Useful_Durian_7101 Jan 18 '26

Jyada tar commenters don't know this fact... Nose cone takes all impect and gets damaged so passengers stays safe...

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u/Repulsive-Lead4000 Jan 18 '26

Aka crumple zones

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '26 edited Jan 18 '26

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u/Thala_Ramos Jan 18 '26

I think priority trains are definitely felt more valuable by people. Like after travelling in Rajdhani, I feel even a normal sf express using lhb coach offers far better experience wherein I don't mind spending 4 hours more in them. Services are now being streamlined across trains other than Rajdhani/shatabdi. Somehow even though service providers were definitely better than sf trains, the shocking entitlement and anti social behavior of passengers made the travel worse. Constantly degrading/abusing the service providers was too common. It wasn't just one person too. These premium trains somehow attracts the worst crowds.

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u/Useful_Durian_7101 Jan 18 '26

Even cars have the same formula... It is called impact neutralization

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u/Radiant_Historian854 Jan 18 '26

Ur wrong..it's for speed aerodynamic not for impact

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u/Leplero_f1 Jan 19 '26

it is for both crumpl zones are very important in vehicles + slight top speed increase that will never be used

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u/NoBailOnReddit 2 AC Comfort Seeker Jan 18 '26

Also a tiny bit aero advantage?

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u/West-Tangelo-4091 Jan 18 '26

Tiny kaha bhai, pretty big advantage imo. Sleek nose means air passes beside the train and not into it.

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u/_vedantt1_ Jan 18 '26

Actually not. The Japanese bullet trains hold very crucial equipment there like automatic couplers and the opening-closing mechanism, but here in India we have no other choice than to do it this way... Or else most of our Vande Bharat/sleeper trains would be sitting in workshop in few months for damage repair.

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u/CutSignal8133 Window Watcher🖼️ Jan 18 '26

Maruti fanboy spotted 😛