This is one of the worst thing that can happen, just wonder how this can happen, catenary issue/misaligned or pantograph fault? (Hit too hard think)
Faulty pantograph (broken carbon strip maybe), OLE out of alignment perhaps due to excessive wind. Has been a particular problem on the ECML in the UK where they decided to use headspan wires over multiple track sections rather than gantries, presumably to cut costs. Unfortunately not as resilient and of course if it does get tangled up, tends to bring the whole lot down rather than just the affected line.
Hope we get one scenario when this happens at some point but not too sure if the companies that give license at DTG are happy to have this thing simulated
Probably not. For starters once the wires are tangled around the pantograph and/or train it's going to take a long time before it can be moved, probably diesel hauled by a loco with adaptor coupling. Once the current is confirmed isolated and all other train movement stopped, the chances are passenges would be evacuated from the train to a suitable station or lineside access point rather than wait hours for movement.
Not too sure because this could be one potentially scenario for TSW, i was undecided where to post this
