There have been plans to use them here again since the withdrawal of the last British double decker train in 1971 but any future plans have been dropped largely due to financial constraints.
A double deck design was tried, the Bulleid 4DD, but it wasn't exactly a success.
Pretty much failures by most sensible accounts.
The Bruges train seemed ideal for high capacity commuter trains is our gauge narrower so design problems or are our bridges platforms the problem - still inquisitive?
Everything is a problem. Especially below platform level where there are all sorts of problems with stuff like longitudinal girders of underbridges. An early post of mine (#9) in the other thread I linked to has a link to a regularly posted Network Rail report about the difficulties..
I guess it all boils down to the UK being the first to build railways... the rest of the world took the idea and improved on it, but by then the UK already had committed themselves to the original design. Being able to fit continental style double deckers would mean rebuilding the entire infrastructure and needing new trains (even single deckers) as the existing fleet is not exactly designed for European style trains (with the exception of St. Pancras).
To be fair that is a problem even on full size double deck trains on the continent.
But it doesn’t stop SBB running 20+ trains per hour (ie same as Thameslink is planned to) on the S-bahn through Zürich Hbf using a mix of three different double deck stock types.
Didn't think they'd ever run to Waterloo. Not seen that view of the interior before either, so cheers for posting!
Thanks, that would be Waterloo East station, but was named Waterloo due to its close connection to the current Waterloo between 1935 and 1977, when it was reverted back to its original name. By then, of course, most of the 4DD was scrapped.
That makes more sense. Didn't realise Waterloo East was ever named anything else, though I could see it being named Waterloo (High Level) or something in a parallel universe.
