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Old July 16th 08, 01:05 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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On Jul 16, 1:31 pm, "Peter Masson" wrote:

or more passengers had to be evacuated on foot. It would be useful if
feasible to be able to move a train to a platform, or out of a platform to
clear it for a following train.


In concept yes - but this sort of thing tends not to happen *that*
often.

If DfT or H&S are really that concerned about moving trains in this
way to evac passegners, then they need to do so for all EMU of every
spec for every train of every railway to cover every just in case, if,
but, and maybe.

And this will have to include future LU stock.

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