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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Trainchat - The failure of privatisation in the British Railway
 
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misguided rage
Jun 15, 2010

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Install Gentoo posted:


Edit: The Jubilee Line in London runs trainsets about 4/5 the length of the usual trainsets used on IRT sections of the NYC subway. Each 1996 stock trainset on the Jubilee line is rated to carry 817 people, each R142/R142A trainset used on the various IRT lines can hold about 1800 people per train. With the Jubilee line running at about every 2-3 minutes at peak and the Lexington line (for an example IRT line) running every 3-4 minutes at peak - well there's just no way around it you can fit a lot more people in the latter before you add on that the Lex is 4 track.

Maybe I'm missing something but if the train is 80% of the length but only ~45% of the capacity, the capacity difference doesn't seem to have much to do with the length of the train. Switching to cars which are able to carry more people might be worthwhile, but just tacking on more of the low-capacity cars doesn't seem like a great plan.

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misguided rage
Jun 15, 2010

:shepface:God I fucking love Diablo 3 gold, it even paid for this shitty title:shepface:

Install Gentoo posted:



The London "deep level tube" train cars are rather small in order to fit the narrow width tunnels they run in. Sadly they've kind of got no real chance of expanding the tunnels for larger cars (which would be ideal), running longer trains and expanding the stations some is really the only sane thing to do.


Yeah that's what I assumed. I was just trying to expand on Bozza's point that adding cars to the train isn't necessarily the best way to increase capacity.

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