"Mizter T" wrote in message

"Recliner" wrote:

"bob" wrote:
By 6 car do you mean 6 articulated sets or 3 articulated sets? Most
discussion I have read about the recent exercise to increaes
capacity has refered to "3 car trains" meaning 3 articulated sets,
but given that longer trains are generally not run, 6 articulated
sets seems a little odd to me (but 3 articulated sets entirely to
be expected). Oddly, while people seem happy to generally talk
about an artiuclated set of DLR stock as a single car, they seem
less willing to describe Eurostar as 2 power cars and 2 passenger
cars.

Yes, I constantly notice the same anomaly. In E* terms, the DLR will
have six-car trains, but they're actually three articulated
vehicles, each consisting of two segments. Of course, as a
passenger, you're more aware of passing between cars on an E* train
than you are when moving between the two halves of a DLR vehicle.

The 'official' terminology used by the DLR/ TfL (for better or for
worse) refers to an individual articulated vehicle as a "carriage",
so the long trains are "three-carriage trains" - see:
http://developments.dlr.co.uk/enhanc...city/index.asp

That said it's easy enough to work out what someone is talking about
if they were to refer to 2-car, 3-car, 4-car or 6-car DLR trains.

You and I may think it's clear enough, but Railway Herald managed to get
totally confused, and announced that the extended DLR trains consisted
of two, three-segment vehicles, rather than three two-segment vehicles.
In other words, they thought that the extension consisted of new
intermediate trailer segments (which have left the trains severely
under-powered). And I also remember a discussion here about whether the
trains were even articulated.