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Re:Getting High-Speed Rail Wrong by bluGill on Friday May 14, 2021 @08:52AM (#27153683)
A HSR train stop and go - without opening the door is about 1.5 minutes added to the total trip time (depending on how fast the train goes of course). It is possible to get the time the doors remain open down to under a minute (this is done for airport trains), but I think 1.5 minutes is a more reasonable floor just because people need some time to get their bags on the train and around other people.

This puts the time loss to stopping a train at 3-17 minutes.

Re:Getting High-Speed Rail Wrong by moshmosh on Friday May 14, 2021 @10:13AM (#27154553)
Sure, HSR is gonna have it worse than a minute, I was thinking of, say, subways and light commuter rail, with the 1 minute lower bound. Some of those don't spend more than about a minute not at full speed for some stations, including door-open time and de-/ac-cellerating. No train where people aren't traveling very light and prepared to get off fast is going to get quite that low a stop time, though, true.