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What is tilt train?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Its a train the tilts when going round corners. Britains railway lines were laid at a time when trains went at very slow speed and tight bends were OK, but fast trains cannot go around such bends. The choice of relaying all railway tracks as straight lines with gently curves is not possible in this overcrowded island, so the alternative is to shift the centre of balance of the train be tlting on a bend. However the first trains in the '80s were not successful. Virgin are trying again. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/northyorkshire/travel/story/t
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