Thread: Long DLR Train
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Old January 31st 10, 09:27 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Long DLR Train

On 31 Jan, 07:34, "DW downunder" noname wrote:
"Recliner" wrote in message

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"MIG" wrote in message

This morning I've seen a three-unit train running on the DLR, with the
designation "Special", in between other services.


(Am I the only one having trouble perceiving the "articulated
vehicles" as anything other than units of two coaches?)


Like any other articulated vehicles (particularly trams), the short
coaches share a bogey. The only mainline trains with this configuration in
the UK are Eurostars, but they're quite common elsewhere.


The diagrams and photos I have seen seem to me to show 2 car bodies and 4
bogies per unit. Was I looking at the wrong images?

DW downunder


If you mean diagrams like this one
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._New_Train.PNG
then it would indeed appear to be wrong. Maybe the wheels were added
as an afterthought?