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Old January 25th 12, 10:42 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,misc.transport.rail.americas
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On 25/01/2012 11:36, Neil Williams wrote:
On Jan 25, 12:02 pm, Graeme 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.


In the Brussels case so it will match the existing Metro system.

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