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?

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

Why don't you just google it?

steering wheels, even

Surely they just follow the tracks??

Is this a reverse?

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

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

They also have tiny ickle parachutes instead of brakes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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)

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.

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

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

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

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

I'm going to steal that one

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.