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Old August 3rd 08, 04:47 PM posted to cam.transport,uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Default Overcrowded trains

In message , at 16:04:47 on
Sun, 3 Aug 2008, Peter Masson remarked:
I've seen people almost getting off an over-length slam-door southern
region train at Wokingham - the result would be landing on the level
crossing!


Overlength, or just stopped short? Anything over 8 coaches on the Windsor
Lines would be an embarrassment, as few if any of the platforms are longer,
and particularly nothing longer than 8 can use platforms 4A/4B at Reading -
indeed, they had to move the starting signals to get 8-car 458s in there.


This would have been about 1980. Does Wokingham normally have room for 8
cars?
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Roland Perry