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Old January 25th 12, 10:36 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,misc.transport.rail.americas
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Default CharlieCards v.v. Oyster (and Octopus?)

On Jan 25, 12:02*pm, Graeme Wall wrote:

The Brussels pre-metro platforms have a sunken centre section for the
trams. *Is this to enable the easy provision of high level platforms
if/when the lines are converted to full metro operation?


Sorry, I don't know - though I don't see any reason why a "full" metro
shouldn't be low-floor low-platform.

Indeed, the LUL "deep Tube" uses lower platforms than the mainline...

Neil