department of crappy engineering: how sentosa express switch rail

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Thursday, May 08, 2008

how sentosa express switch rail

Have you wondered how does the Sentosa Express switch rail? Being a monorail system, the mechanism is slightly different from normal railway's switching mechanism and in my opinion it's quite spectacular.

The other day I went to Sentosa and took this set of pictures:

the track from the station leads to the right track, which goes to Sentosa

something's moving...

this sure looks scary

docking completed! The left side is for trains coming from Sentosa back to VivoCity

There are 4 moving supports for the switch rail, of which only the furthest is powered by a linear motor.

Looks like elephant trunk -_-"

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2 Comments:

what if you stick a metal rod there preventing the rail from fully completing the switching?

By Anonymous, at 5/10/2008 01:01:00 AM
i dunno, not sure if the system is smart enough to send an error message to control station.

By chillycraps, at 5/10/2008 07:03:00 AM

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