On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Richard J. wrote:

Neil Williams wrote:
On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 01:22:32 +0100, Steve Fitzgerald
] wrote:

Aye, it's the carrying of cycles though tube tunnels that is banned by
the Railway Inspectorate (or whatever they're called these days).

Best not tell Merseyrail, then - or is it because the Tube trains
themselves might need to be evacuated from the ends, and a Class 508
unit has a lot more space to get a bike out of the way than a Tube
train?

In particular, a bike at one of the car ends on a Tube train, where
there are single sliding doors and restricted space, would impede access
to the end doors for evacuation. Class 508 has only double sliding
doors.

Does that mean that if tube trains only had double doors, they could carry
bikes?

I thought the bike thing was to do with the need to be able to evacuate
out the ends. Does Merseyrail have tunnels where it's possible to go out
the sides instead?

tom

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