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Old January 28th 04, 12:04 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Jack Taylor Jack Taylor is offline
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Default Double deck Crossrail


"Boltar" wrote in message
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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?


So that the trains then clout each other as they pass elsewhere - or clout
adjacent lineside structures? That's what the loading gauge is there for!