The question is obvious from the title of the post, and it might trigger some tankers in the comunity but here’s the reason i ask the question. No tanker in his right mind would ever pull of such a trick irl because the underpass would collapse under the tank due to its weight. While the portion under the tracks is reinforced with thick beams to support the weight of the train, the platform itself isn’t because it wouldn’t be designed to handle such weight in normal usage.
That being said, should the access on the platform be limited with the use of hedgehogs or dragonteeth?
Yeah, but games aren’t real life.
Gameplay choice by the Devs.
I don’t mind tanks entering the station, but I wouldn’t be mad if they put some roadblocks.
The map was anounced with lines stating that tanks could go inside on the platforms.
You can read it here
And i quote “To get the scale of the building - just hear the clamping of the tank caterpillars. The train station was large enough to use armored vehicles inside! Apart from large platforms with stationary locomotives, those who like covert maneuvers will find a lot of administrative buildings to use as cover.”
Easy answer, no.
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it is not problem of train station being large enough, it is problem on load bearing capacity if there is structure underneath the tank.
e.g. for IS-2 that is 46t on 2x0.65m x 6.2m tracks that is 5700kg/m2 pressure.
one train from that era is prussian t 20 and he has service weight of 127.4t spread on tracks that is 11.9m x 1.4m or that gives 7647kg/m2.
now it is a good question if platform itself could support that weight, but it is quite possible considering that there is no tunnel underneath whole platform so weight could be spread depending on thickness of concrete and ground. for concrete answer you would need structural engineer and building plans of station.
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There is that one room under the platform where you have to plant the bomb. I doubt that it would be able to sustain a tank. It looks to be 8m long and 5-6 wide
i know that. but it also depends how much concrete there is between tunnel and platform and how it is reinforced.
have to go will maybe write more later…
This sort of prooves my point, in the heat of the battle a tank commander wouldn’t get out of the tank, take out a masuring tape and check the thickness of the concrete slab, get the building plans and calculate the load bearing capacity of the structure, nor would he have the knoledge to do so.
All this means that he wouldn’t risk it in the first place.
From all the books I have read so far, and documentaries etc, the train of thought (lol train) was and still is up to this day “don’t enter buildings with tanks, you might end up in the cellar”
like i said it is possible. if tunnel could support pressure of locomotive, it could probably support pressure of tank. even KT has 5900kg/m2 or 7100kg/m2 pressure depending on its track width. one of the reason why KT was equipped with wider tracks (it had 2 tracks configuration) is so it doesnt put too much pressure on soil and get stuck in soft ground.
and you are absolutely correct. tanks avoided going into buildings cause of basements. also there is difference between residential, commercial and industrial buildings. if you look at modern building guidelines/code for live load capacity you will see that residential floor needs to have 150kg/m2 load bearing capacity, office 200kg/m2 and industrial buildings can have 1000+kg/m2. that is sustained load capacity on second floor. i read somewhere that if you go over the limit of sustained load (if built by code), you risk structural damage and if you get somewhere around 2x recommended load you risk collapse (dont take me by word, i am not structural engineer, i researched this recently cause i needed it for house project).
tunnels inside train station should have vastly superior construction cause they needed to support locomotives that could have even more pressure per m2 than tanks, so i think tanks are safe inside train station. but not so much in typical residential/commercial buildings with basement.