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August 30th 04, 04:50 AM
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Crossrail.
Robin May wrote in message ...
Iain Bowen wrote the following in: In article , says... "David Hansen" wrote in message ... Unless one has double-deck platforms, loading and unloading such trains will always be a slow operation given the way such trains have to be laid out. The French seem to manage! So do the Dutch. So do the Americans. Isn't it a question of loading gauge restrictions? Plenty of room for DD in Sydney and elsewhere, but SFA in the UK? IIRR the Southern Region's DDs were slam-door stock with one upper compartment ingeniously dovetailed in with two lower ones. There were no vestibules, so getting in and out of the upper compartments was tricky, and it was all this clambering about that made station stops longer I think. andrew clarke canberra eating chips after t'Messiah -- just like huddersfield ... |
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