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Platform levels
On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 12:23:09 +0000
Recliner wrote: On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 12:11:17 +0000 (UTC), d wrote: Up to a point. Though it brings its own problems - the gap at the highly curved Aldgate platforms is borderline dangerous for anyone with poor eyesight. Have they installed the bright below-platform lights there, as at other curved platforms? That would help people not fail to spot, and Can't remember TBH, its been a few months since I last went there. But I think that's your answer: it was deemed to be safer to overhang platforms than to be at the identical level with a large gap on curved platforms. And presumably on general purpose lines all trains aren't the same height anyway, so you'd have had both a gap and a height difference. Curved platforms sure, but on straight platforms I can't see a good reason for not having the platform the same height as the train. Even if the trains floor height varies by a few inches, that's preferable to the large step up you get at some places. And if only one type of train is going to run on a new built line, eg victoria line, they really had no excuse. At least they got it right with the JLE and ELLX. Presumably the lizzyline will do the same. I looked at the pics I took in Japan and see that even on recent Shinkansen lines, the train floors are a bit higher than the platform, though the height difference is quite small, and there's almost no gap: https://www.flickr.com/photos/reclin...33542371720/li htbox/ Good pics. -- Spud |
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