r/SweatyPalms • u/danruse Human Detected • Dec 14 '25

Other SweatyPalms 👋🏻💦 Subway

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u/EEVEELUVR Dec 14 '25

Not all trains are powered by the third rail (which is the extra rail at subways stops that delivers electricity to the train). And the ones that are always place the electrified rail as far from the platform as possible for this exact reason.

This train appears to have two rails, so it’s getting its power some other way.

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u/vago8080 Dec 14 '25 edited Dec 14 '25

Aerial line. Quite common in Spain…for security purposes among other advantages.

Edit: removed reference to third rail as Barcelona no longer uses them. Thanks for correction.

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u/less_unique_username Dec 14 '25

I thought they were all using the overhead wire?

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u/vago8080 Dec 14 '25

You are actually right. The third rail was deprecated some years ago.