"MIG" wrote in message

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).

It was worse than that. Someone unearthed a manufacturer's artist's
impression that appeared to show four axles in the middle of the
carriage, which suggested two bogies. This was, of course, an error by
the artist, but as you can't easily see the bogies, thanks to the side
skirts, some people assumed that as the sketch came from the
manufacturer, it must be correct.