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Unless one has double-deck platforms, loading and unloading such
trains will always be a slow operation given the way such trains
have to be laid out.
The French seem to manage!
So do the Dutch.
So do the Americans.
Isn't it a question of loading gauge restrictions?
Plenty of room for DD in Sydney and elsewhere, but SFA in the UK?
IIRR the Southern Region's DDs were slam-door stock with one upper
compartment ingeniously dovetailed in with two lower ones. There were
no vestibules, so getting in and out of the upper compartments was
tricky, and it was all this clambering about that made station stops
longer I think.
andrew clarke
canberra
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