Euro-American Maglev Railway - Transit without stopping

I have a maglev train starting in Paris, going through Siberia, bridging over the Bering Strait, and running down the West Coast to San Francisco. There are other major lines splitting from this one, but this one is simply "vein of the world" in my settings. It gets you from Paris to San Francisco in 40 hours for a personal ticket price in economy class of 200 Eur.

For the sake of my question, do not scrutinize operation of a maglev and the maintenance or construction of railroad in Siberian climate. Let's assume the rails are always maintained and under heavy observation.

Problem and Solution

The train can travel up to 500 km/h. As we know trains are heavy and a big portion of the track length is spent accelerating or decelerating. I came up with way how to minimize this by creating auxiliary track near desired cities (for example in Europe it is only Paris, Berlin, Warsaw, Minsk and Moscow), where the main train will slow down to 200 km/h and an auxiliary train will match the speed and create bridge between them, allow people to transit. I imagine this creating a transit window for around 20 minutes, then they will disconnect and auxiliary train will deliver people and goods to train station. That will need two parallel tracks running for about 100 km (5 min reserve before transit and after) and then the aux train deliver the people into the city (that might take another 30 minutes, depends how far are transit points from the city and its train station). Like this I can make the Paris-Moscow trip from current 40 hrs to 12 hrs.

Regardless of price, is this transit system sound? I can imagine I might have little problem with safety committee. I mean a person stuck between doors is a dead person. Mishap in speed of trains (Flexible docking clamp can compensate only small abbreviations) can be fatal to hundreds of people when the trains are docked.

Are there any other really major red flags in this system? Is there safer way to make the transit without stopping the train?

posted over 4 years ago

Prahara‭

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