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[email protected] · November 11th 16, 04:45 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , d () wrote:

On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 17:38:20 +0000
Neil Williams wrote:
On 2016-11-10 17:00:22 +0000, d said:

That sounds like a retrograde step to me. Unlike a bus a train can't
swerve out of the way if there's an obstruction ahead the driver missed
and as we have seen, toppling over on a curve is a possibly. A bus
would just skid.

Buses can and do topple if driven too fast round corners. National
Express gave up double-decker operation for years when this happened to
one of theirs.

Yes, fair point. But in general a bus is more likely to skid than topple.
Didn't LT make a point of showing videos of old routemasters that would
never topple over no matter what idiotic moves a bus driver did with them?
Admittedly it was on a skid pan so there were no curbs or other obstacles
for the wheels to get caught on, but even so.

It was an RT. The film was shot a long time ago, before there were many
Routemasters. RTs were taller and narrower than RMs.

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Colin Rosenstiel