Matthew Geier

On Sun, 11 May 2008 03:26:31 +0000, Chris Bell wrote:


> When I was there, there were doors at each
> pair of seats, so loading was quick. Not sure about current design of
> trains.

Not any more. The trains that had lots of doors were the old 'slam door'
stock that have all been withdrawn. All suburban services are now by
trains with only two sets of doors a side.
Their passenger growth has been such that operators are now taking seats
out to increase standing room. (Converting 2 x 3 to 2 x 2 mainly). The
only 'upgrades' they are getting to increase capacity are to increase
train lengths to 12 cars where they are not already 12 cars.
New tracks are too expensive and their infrastructure too constrained to
run double decked stock, so they fiddle at the edges.

There seems to me much the same allergy to spending on infrastructure
that NSW has.