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Old December 20th 11, 08:54 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.buses,uk.transport.london
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Default Modern double deck trams

On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:38:54 +0000, "
wrote:

On 20/12/2011 17:23, Graeme Wall wrote:
On 20/12/2011 17:13, Neil Williams wrote:
On Dec 20, 6:01 pm, Sam wrote:

On all the corridor trains I've been on the floor in the gangways is
subject to extension or contraction as the couplings and/or buffers
react to stresses. Granted it's not to the same degree as you'd get
with a DD tram, but it's not an entirely novel problem.

I'm pretty sure Stagecoach has or had some double-decker articulated
coaches with through connections at both levels. I think they were
used on Megabus duties.


Couldn't find any pictures of a Stagecoach or Megabus articulated double
decker but I did find this:

http://www.sfu.ca/person/dearmond/phono/London.tbus2049b.jpg


Cute, but I don't think that trolleybusses are on the cards anytime soon
in London.

Not until they build the necessary canals with OHLE.