Mike Bristow wrote:
In article . com,
Boltar wrote:
Why oh why do they have to keep designing new trains? Sure , use new
technology
under the floor as and when it becomes available ,

If that exciting new technology is smaller, wouldn't it be nice if
some of that space was in the passenger area, rather than being an
empty, useless, void?



I thought the trend was for thicker and thicker walls and higher
floors, with less and less usable space inside. This was certainly the
case with the Central Line stock compared with the 1962 stock it
replaced. Removing the seats was meant to make up for it, but didn't
really.

Some of it may be safety-related, like instead of a handrail protruding
a couple of inches, the wall of the train is made two inches thicker so
that the rail can be in a recess. (Also angled so that you can't lean
against it.)

But then, bizarrely, in the Jubilee stock, the doors have windows in
deep recesses, the edges of which clout people every time the doors
open.