Traindesign
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I Guess you are gate-line staff ! ????????
The units/power cars can be 3rd rail, OHL or diesel
Well it works as the DFT will tell you, there will be a mock-up in the near future
to back this up, 6,6 headroom on both decks...
No this train runs within C1 gauge so no problems.
Anyone else recall those double decker busses whose upper deck was staggered?
The downstairs seating was as usual, 2+2 format with a central gangway, but the clever bit of the design was upstairs.
The upper gangway was along one side (not in the middle of the bus) and was in a 'well' which was about 300mm lower than the rest of the upper floor (where the seats were bolted).
The fact that the gangway would drop into headspace below didn't matter because it was along the side where the seats were and even when people were getting in and out of their seats, they's stoop slightly.
Similarly, passenger upstairs would step up, out of the gangway and move along the bench seating in a slightly stooped position.
The benefits included: a lower headroom for bridge clearances, less material to construct the bus, lower centre of gravity to assist balance on bends.
The upshot is, there are ways of providing passenger headroom in the gangways which, if they are not above each other, don't need to be added together to reach the total vehicle height. Is this of any help?
Capacity would be nothing like "double", given the space needed for stairs etc.
Would it be worth doing for a 50% capacity increase and longer "dwell" times?
If they are multiple units there could be seating above the driving cabs to compensate for the space required for stairs
That's right, they have the width to allow fast alighting and boarding
Awwww!Passengers would not be permitted to be right at the front of the vehicle and in the crumple zone.
True, but wide doors eats into seating capacity (as well as the space for stairs - which would presumably need to be fairly wide to suit UK legislation).
The design is very innivative as it needed to be, it will operate without any changes to platforms, bridges, tunnels or track circuits.
oh come on at least get it right, thats the sleeperI believe this design was patented several hundred years ago...............