What carriage on a train would be the safest to travel on if an emergency like derailment happend?

Question

What carriage on a train would be the safest to travel on if an emergency like derailment happend?

Answer 1

It's purely a matter of chance simply because who knows which fault will occur to either track or train - and when! ! !

Answer 2

The engine, that way most of the bad stuff is happening behind you.  What the h**l kind of question is this?

Answer 3

It is not going to derail. Quit living in fear.

Answer 4

The one that stayed on the tracks.  Is this a trick question?

Answer 5

you may travel in comfort at all times. if you gonna die you gonna die. you might as well enjoy yourself until it doesn't happen.

Answer 6

the one that did not derail / topple / explode!

Answer 7

To the person who said farthest away from the locomotive since in the event of a derailment the locomotive always goes first.  You are COMPLETLY WRONG.  The locomotive does not always cause a derailment nor does it always derail when a derailment happens.  In fact, the locomotive is the safest part, and place of a train.  If I had a choice in being in the locomotive or a passenger car, I would be in the locomotive.  But as far as being in a passenger car, I would try to stay towards the middle of the train.  If in fact the locomotive does derail, then the train (depending on speed) will slow extremly fast.  Since passenger cars are so lite compared to other railroad cars, they may jack knife, but you wont have to worry about the whole train to come in on you, just the rear end of it.  Once you ahve taken a ride on a train and had it derail while riding the engine, you will completly understnad my reasoning.

Answer 8

2nd to the last car

Answer 9

It dosn't matter what coach you travel in as you you have a 50/50 chance af being in all of them when the crash is over.

Answer 10

People tend to think of derailments as starting from the front and running towards the rear.  But equipment derails when conditions are right for any coach in the train.  It doesn't matter if sitting to the rear if a train runs into your train at the rear end.

So where you sit is irrelevant where survivability of derailment or collision is concerned.

If it's your time, you're gonna go.

Answer 11

It would depend on the lenth of the train and wether it is hauled by a locomotive or is of multipel-unit formation(cars/coaches with power unit under the floor).

Speed,cant(that's the way the railway track is leaning on a curve)play a part too.

I did ask this question of a major in Her majestys railway inspectorate (UK) (RAIB...as it is named now) and he gave a couple of examples....He reconed that the safest coach on a Manchester to London express hauled by a class 86 loco de-railed at 100mph would be the 3rd-4th car in the formation.

On a multipul-unit class 150 at 75mph consiting of 4 cars would be the 3rd car.

This was based on how the inertia was dissapated in the incident and the likleyhood of the leading cars to come into contact with trackside structures and if the de-railed train was in a position to be struck by trains passing on opposite or adjacent tracks.

Answer 12

As far from the locomotive as you can get. In the event that the train leaves the track, the locomotive will go first.

Answer 13

Usually, the back one.

Answer 14

Prior to some sort of accident or derailment, there is no way to predict which coach is the safest to be in.

This is definitely a case of hindsight not being very useful.  Derailments and wrecks come in many ways, shapes, and forms, and only afterwards would someone be able to make the conclusion that one coach was safer than another - far too late to be of any use.

Take comfort in the fact that rail travel is a very safe mode of transportation (at least in North America), and even if there are emergencies, they don't have the severity of other forms of transportation (car accidents, plane crashes).

Answer 15

i would say the safest is the one the one that does;nt come off the track second is two choices first one after the engine and the last one

Answer 16

Deaths and serious injuries are extremely rare, even in derailments.  Typical Amtrak derailment: 400 people on the train, 50 with cuts and bruises, 4 taken to hospital, 1 held overnight for observation.  

Also, railway coaches are the only passenger transportation device in the world that doesn't contain fuel... so, no fires.

Railway fatalities are a big deal so the government keeps track of them.  Check the relevant government agency for statistics, but I think you will be impressed.  

Honestly.  You are probably 10 times more likely to be killed on your way to the train station (or from it).  What are you doing about that?

Answer 17

No carriage in a train could guarantee to be the safest, as derailments happen in various ways, e.g. the train you're on hitting the back of another, another hitting the back of yours, side-on collision, derailment due to track fault or obstruction on the line. You could not possibly foretell how a derailment could happen.

However, rest assured, derailments are extremely rare, because rail transport is extremely safe.

In the very unlikely event a derailment does happen the carriages are designed to stay intact even in a collision at high speed and this is your best guarantee of survival.

Answer 18

as far back as possible so it will not pile up on you or slide over you . those are veary rear so don't really worry. have fun