Re: Southern Railway "bike ban" survey


Alex Potter wrote:
> MartinM wrote on Saturday 31 December 2005 10:47:
>
> > what will the new law stipulate? the current provision is 2 bikes per
> > 4 car unit; on my line this is usually filled by the 4th station on
> > the line. The only way to increase capacity on the current trains
> > (less than 2 years old) would be to take out more of the seating bays
> > at the end of each coach (4 of the 8 bays are currently used by 2
> > toilet and 2 first class areas)
>
> Of course, if we were really serious about "joined-up transport" we
> would be reinstating the railway parcels service and running trains
> with goods vans. There would then be plenty of room on trains for
> bikes.
>
> I remember during the discussion of the Railway's policy on the weekend
> of the London to Brighton ride some mention that trains have been built
> without goods capacity and with couplings that are incapable of joining
> with goods or parcels vans. Perhaps the designers/specifiers of such an
> abortion should face criminal charges? Vandalism on the railway,
> perhaps?

If this is to do with not being able to couple the class 325 ex Royal
Mail units to the Southern emu's; the main problem for the L2B seemed
to be that the former did not have a safety case to go along that
particular bit of track (hardly a less stupid reason, granted)

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