Hartington
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Selective Door Opening.
Forget current stock, this is a question about what might be feasible in the future.
For instance, suppose you have a route which has platforms (except at the terminii) that can only service two cars. With modern things like GPS and balises and the kind of passenger information systems that you find on Japanese trains what's to stop the railway running 3 car trains? You could stop the train with the front car off the platform and only open doors in the rear two then at the next stop leave the back car off the platform and only open the doors in the front two cars. If the cars had 1/3 - 2/3 doors you could even stop with the centre car centred on the platform and leave the front doors of the front car and the rear doors of the rear car closed. The PIS would show which doors would open at the next station. I say 3 car but the principle could be applied to almost any train length.
Forget current stock, this is a question about what might be feasible in the future.
For instance, suppose you have a route which has platforms (except at the terminii) that can only service two cars. With modern things like GPS and balises and the kind of passenger information systems that you find on Japanese trains what's to stop the railway running 3 car trains? You could stop the train with the front car off the platform and only open doors in the rear two then at the next stop leave the back car off the platform and only open the doors in the front two cars. If the cars had 1/3 - 2/3 doors you could even stop with the centre car centred on the platform and leave the front doors of the front car and the rear doors of the rear car closed. The PIS would show which doors would open at the next station. I say 3 car but the principle could be applied to almost any train length.