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Posted by Fytton on Tue Mar 15 08:01:23 2005, in response to Re: London news, posted by David Fairthorne on Mon Mar 14 22:51:25 2005. "Double-decker suburban trains are another possibility, but there may not be enough height."An experimental eight-car double-decker train (the two 4-DD units) ran on the Southern Electric system in the 1950s. It was tricky to design a double-deck car that would fit the UK loading gauge, and both decks lacked headroom and felt quite claustrophobic. It was deemed a failure not for that reason, though, but because the time to unload a whole rush-hour trainload of passengers at a central London terminus was too long - remember we were comparing it with the old 'door to every seating bay' slam-door stock. The two 4-DDs did run for quite a few years, though, and I saw them in service several times. Eventually the 'ten-car scheme', involving purchase of some 2-car units and lengthening of station platforms, was undertaken as an alternative method of increasing rush-hour capacity. |
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