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Richard J. · January 28th 04, 11:48 AM posted to uk.transport.london

Boltar wrote:
(Aidan Stanger) wrote in message
...

Your question implies that double deck trains are better for regional
services than intercity ones, but the reverse is the case because of
the
extra time the trains would take to load and unload.

TWhat is needed is not heigher cars that may be double decked with
the problems you mention, but WIDER cars which take little if any
greater time to load but carry much more people. Anyone who's been
on the NYC subway knows how many people those 10 foot wide BMT/IND
cars can swallow up. Of course the british loading guage becomes a
problem then but perhaps theres some way of getting the bodywork
to overhang the platforms?

How would that help? If the body overhangs the platform, it will also
strike bridges, signal gantries, other trains, ...

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