This is a Deutsche Bahn Class 612 tilting train in Germany. Modern tilting train technology was widely developed and tested from the 1960s onward to help trains handle curves more smoothly and quickly by leaning inward during turns, reducing the sideways forces felt by passengers. The technology is especially... useful on winding and mountainous rail routes, where building entirely new high-speed lines would be difficult or expensive, and it is still actively used today on many rail networks. 📹kilistrainsshow more

Technology in Germany is developing backwards

Germany has bern phasing out tilting trains because the technology caused more trouble than benefits.

It will be 12 hrs late but hey, at least it can twist.

Any tech which can handle train delays more smoothly and reduce what's felt by passengers?

Italian invention. And patent. Name: Pendolino

Probably these trains spend a lot of time tilting and are therefore so unpunctual 😉

Couldn't they just angle the tracks?

We have this Trains also in the North of Bavaria (Upper Frnaconia) between Hof - Bayreuth - Nuremberg or Hof - Bamberg. The Railtraks have many "Turns" and so you get quicker to your Destination.

Cool, but anyway the train would be late

Unfortunately, tilting on the BR 612 is on less smooth than on ICE trains. The system causes passengers to experience nausea. A four-hour Train ride through mountainous areas like Nuernberg -Dresden is a challenge.

British Rail did this in the 1980’s called the APT. Sadly the government of the time killed it

Overengineered trains optimized for maximum downtime and delays

This technology is also used on routes where high-speed trains travel in opposite directions, such as the TGV in France, but I’ve also seen in Tunisia. This is because air pressure creates the Bernoulli effect, which would otherwise tip the lighter train over, so it tilts inward.

A tight lateral tilt & strong climbing angle up to 1:30 gradient with a roller-coaster like sway can be felt on the train to the Brocken mountains (Harz National Park), between the Drei Annen Hohne & Brocken stops as the narrow gauge railway climbs steep gradients & tight curves.

Trotzdem sind die nie pünktlich

It can make passengers train-sick because your perception of the curve in the track doesn’t match what you see out the window.

Gotta hand it to the Germans for their engineering talent.

Technologie italienne 😉

oh no my cappuccino

現代の傾斜式列車技術は、乗客が感じる横向きの力を軽減するため、曲線をスムーズにかつ迅速に処理するのに役立っています。この技術は、新しい高速線を建設することが難しいまたは高価な湾曲した山岳鉄道路線に特に有用です。これは今でも多くの鉄道網で積極的に使用されています。 質問：この機能を利用した列車は他の型式の列車に比べてどのような利点がありますか？

hell yeah @Metro2000game

The Deutsche Bahn Class 612 is part of a generation of rail engineering designed to solve a very specific constraint, increasing speed on legacy track without rebuilding the entire geometry of the railway. Tilting train systems work by mechanically or hydraulically leaning the car body into curves, reducing lateral acceleration felt by passengers. In real terms, they shift part of the centrifugal force vector into a vertical component, allowing higher cornering speeds on existing curved infrastructure. This matters because rail speed is often not limited by propulsion, but by track curvature, cant limits, and passenger comfort thresholds. On winding routes, conventional trains must slow significantly to avoid excessive side loading forces.

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Cool

Hat nur einen kleinen Fehler :Der Zug hätte elektrifiziert werden müssen

It is not for comfort, it is for preventing derailing at higher speeds.

Adding a (motor-assisted) hybrid diesel drive system would make it the Kiha 285 that JR Hokkaido aimed.

This tilting tech is underrated af

🤮😁

Ai these days

Wow

The key idea is that curve banking and train tilt solve the same problem in different ways. If you can rebuild the track with enough cant and gentler curve geometry, tilt becomes less useful.

Currently the worst train service in EU.

@ZhugeEX Experienced this on the Bullet Train in Japan. Surreal feeling at 300KPH! ❤️