On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Mizter T wrote:

On 23 Sep, 21:56, Rupert Candy wrote:
On Sep 22, 5:58*pm, "Paul Scott"
wrote:

'Rail Manager online' reporting the first 378 to travel south
tomorrow, and the possibility of Third Rail electrification of the GOB
line...

http://91.186.0.3/~keepingt/rm/164/RMAN_164.pdf

There's a sizeable feature in this week's Railway Herald
(www.railwayherald.com) about the 378s, with several pictures. Anyone
else struck by the lack of handles at useful heights for that massive
standing space in between the seats? You'd think they'd have learnt
their lesson from the 376s.

I'd seen this photo and had a similar thought about the lack of
handles:
http://www.upmain.fotopic.net/p53614368.html

However I wonder if the bars which are suspended from the ceiling might
actually be low enough for many people to use. If not perhaps they might
have to add straps or handles to those bars - indeed, perhaps that's
already part of the plan?

Passengers will be expected to carry hooks with which to grab onto the
rails.

During the peaks, a sliding system based on military static line
parchuting setups will be used for rapid egress.

tom

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