Talk:SPRINTER

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[edit] Commuter or light rail?

Is "commuter rail" the best category for this service? It sounds to me a lot like south NJ's River LINE, which is generally thought of as a light rail system. I know it uses DMUs (like the River LINE), but it will also feature a flat fare equal to local bus service and all-day 30-minute headways. I'm not saying there's a hard and fast answer to this question, but I think we're going to see more systems that blur the boundries between the two categories. --Jfruh 22:49, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

I concur that the definition is confusing, though for different reasons. Commuter rail is FRA-crash compliant and can therefore be run mixed with freight trains and commuter trains (such as Sounders). Will this operate mixed with those? Light Rail is not crash compliant and therefore must be seperated from crash compliant rail (River LINE is seperated by time, freight can only run at night after all LRVs are off the line). Also, it appears that the Desiro DMU's may not be crash compliant. Can someone explain these issues and expand the article? Skabat169 18:48, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Certainly looked at from a European perspective, this looks like a pretty standard heavy-rail commuter or suburban rail operation, rather than anything I would describe as light rail. As the article itself says, Desiros are common main-line trains elsewhere. The River Line is an edge case which (IMHO) just scrapes in because it does contain section of street running. There is no indication that SPRINTER does this, or is even fitted with the sort of technology (such as track brakes) that would allow it. Whilst the situation about FRA standards is interesting, I don't think we can let it drive the distinction between heavy and light rail, as if we do we will start having to define lots of main line railways outside the US as light rail. -- Chris j wood (talk) 15:02, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Future Expansioin?

Would it be possible to extend the system to Fallbrook? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.67.35.214 (talk) 18:00, 12 March 2008 (UTC)