In message , at 22:32:00 on Wed, 25
Aug 2004, Neil Williams remarked:
And what that means is that, together with the fact that you can't
have double-decker accommodation over the bogies and at the vehicle
ends, the capacity of a double-decker set of a given length tends to
be about 1.5 times that of a similarly-appointed single-decker set of
the same length, not double as some seem to think.

Yes I agree with that, the Dutch upper decks are much smaller than the
lower ones.

Given that the UK tends to use 2+3 seating,

But on the lines I've used, the 3+2 seating is a disaster, as people
really *hate* sitting three abreast, particularly when they are used to
2+2. Asking to sit in the middle seat, which usually has about six
inches of width showing, is taken as a personal insult.
--
Roland Perry