CTRL-DS to Dover

Mizter T wrote:

> An imaginative solution.

It is the obvious solution, if it is indeed what they are doing.

> I wouldn't have thought of that

I did - years ago - and every time I mentioned it, I was shot down in
flames by those drumming up all the old debates.

> not a railway engineer

Nor am I.

Just a practical one.

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Nick

Aidan Stanger wrote:

> I'm curious: had you read my alternative solution of having high speed
> trains with end doors (like the original Amtrak Metroliners).

I don't recall it specificially no ...

>
> If so, what problem did you see with it?

.... none with that in general ... but this is not the issue here.

The issue is that the trains they are building do not have such exits.
The reason they do not is not the point, only the fact that they are
not fitted. The solution to running IKF-DS to Dover had to evolve
around the trains that are being built, not around a new type of train.

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Nick

Mizter T wrote:


> Nick, I'd say the issue of why they don't have such exits is the point.
>

I agree, with all you wrote.

I did not make it clear that here in this thread I was referring only
to the emergency egress on one side only issue after the CTRL-DS had
been ordered. In that case, end doors in the train do not exist, so the
only possibility is infrastructure alterations.

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Nick