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378s to be unveiled today - BBC
"Mr Thant" wrote in message ... On 13 July, 11:55, John B wrote: Presumably the logic is that if we're extending the GOBLIN platforms it might as well be to 4 cars (which'd be either 2x172 or 1x378 depending on electrification status), hence ordering and carrying out work for 3-car 172s would be completely pointless. No, three car 172s are definitely the plan, but the idea is that the other committed capacity increases will delay the necessity of three car trains for some time. Peak capacity goes up by 33% when they introduce the 4 tph timetable at the end of this year, and a further "30%"* when they introduce the two car 172s some time in 2010, then at some later date three car 172s will be introduced. (Using these numbers, four car 172s every 15 minutes would have 3.5 times the capacity of the current service, which is simply not justified by current or any foreseeable near-future demand) U (* this is TfL's number for 150 vs 172 capacity) Capacity figures can vary hour by hour apparently, when I first posted the link this morning the 4 car 378 was 400, now it is up to 700, possibly the difference between full and comfortable standing, and completely wedged? The figure on the ORR website is an amazing 667 per car - they did acknowledge by email it was a cockup, and should be per 4 car train, so the whole table is misleading: http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/upload/pd..._appendix7.pdf They clearly don't understand the concept of a percentage rise either, all grist to the spin doctor's mill... Paul |
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