On Dec 16, 12:42*am, Mizter T wrote:
On Dec 15, 10:53*pm, MIG wrote:





On Dec 15, 6:10*pm, "Mizter T" wrote:

"Recliner" wrote:

"Mizter T" wrote:

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.

I think I'll pass on travelling on a non-articulated vehicle on the DLR -
the result could be rather messy!

I think the question was to do with how many bogies there are, and
there are three per "carriage" rather than four.

Er, which question?

The discussion about whether the trains were even articulated. I
think someone said that if what appear to be two cars have a shared
bogie in the middle, then it's right to call them single vehicles than
a unit of two (although that's still how I see them).