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Old August 30th 04, 10:50 AM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.railway
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On 30 Aug 2004 03:11:06 -0700, (Alex Terrell)
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Which is why you don't see too many of them.

AFAIAA, all non-DMU new stock builds for local services in Germany
have been DDs - or certainly most of them. (The PumA-Modus stock
doesn't count as it's a Networker Classic-style rebuild on old
underframes). They are very common in Northern Germany.

I think on the Freiburg -
Titisee route long trains are difficult because of the curves and
gradient.

Why should curves restrict train (not vehicle) length? Gradient I'll
give you, because if weight is an issue DDs may win by a small margin.

Neil

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