Trains have steering wheels. Obviously.

[BitchfaceBarclay]

Otherwise they'd fall off the tracks.

H is trying to tell me otherwise. I simply don't believe him.

I am right aren't I?

[rosy71]

No, they don't need steering heels because they follow the tracks.

[ImStickManThatsMe]

Why don't you just google it?

[rosy71]

steering wheels, even

[DeathByMascara]

Surely they just follow the tracks??

[nocoolnamesleft]

Is this a reverse?

[Purplepicnic]

Of course they don't. They just go along the tracks.

[WellErrr]

Well, you'll be safe from the brain-hunting zombies, come the apocalypse.

[Chippednailvarnishing]

They also have tiny ickle parachutes instead of brakes.

[Floggingmolly]

How would they "fall off the tracks"? The tracks go in a straight line...

[WellErrr]

They don't have wheels either. It's hundreds and thousands of mice, all running fast as they can.

[IonaNE]

Yabu. And google it instead of starting a post on Mnet.

[ImStickManThatsMe]

And as they run their metal work boots make that classic 'clickety clack' noise...

[QueenMortificado]

I love all the thread police. "Google it!"

If that advice was given on every thread here that would be half the threads gone

[Daisy03]

If they had steering wheels you'd be able to steer them off the tracks and into a tunnel wall possibly?!
Nope I'm a train driver, the wheels sit on top of the tracks

[BoysofMelody]

Please tell me this actually a question asked by a three year old taken on a train for the first time

The wheels have a flange on them (o'er missus) so it adheres to the track.

[newdaddie]

No they don't have steering wheels. The driver cannot steer/turn the wheels.

The wheels are cone shaped so they have limited pivot and so they can follow the bend of the track. And a flange to help keep them on the track

www.thenakedscientists.com/get-naked/experiments/train-tracks-how-trains-go-round-corners

dh is right

[PickAChew]

A Google image search of train cockpit should settle it. No steering wheels but quite a few knobs and buttons and the occasional joystick.

[GrimmDays]

No steering wheels it's just buttons and levers to control speed/brakes.

[BoysofMelody]

See op no steering wheel. That's the cab of Scotrail class 170 (polishes trainspotter's guide and takes a swig of weak lemon squash)

[JumpingJellybeanz]

According to my resident train nerd some trains do have wheels in the cab which look like steering wheels. But they're not. They are brake wheels.

[ForalltheSaints]

This thread is unfair to those in the south of England who never see a train.

[ItsNachoCheese]

boysofmelody that cab wouldnt happen to be attatched to one of the pishy ancient 2 carriage trains would it?

[RedBugMug]

some trains have a wheel where a caf would have a steering wheel but it usually controls the speed. like a bath tap

[DorisMcSweeney]

Well, you'll be safe from the brain-hunting zombies, come the apocalypse.

I'm going to steal that one

[BoysofMelody]

jumping true, but very few trains on the network still have a brake wheel, off the top of my head I can only think of the handful of venerable class 37s still on the network that have a brake wheel, but that's hardcore nerd territory.