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Old July 24th 06, 12:15 AM posted to uk.transport.london
Michael R N Dolbear Michael R N Dolbear is offline
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Default New Victoria Line Trains


Stevo wrote
Boltar wrote:


Why oh why do they have to keep designing new trains? Sure , use

new
technology under the floor as and when it becomes available , but

just
how many permutations of doors, seating and general visual design

can
there be before they're happy?


If the interior arrangements worked okay in 1938, don't change it!


As you perhaps know, both Londoners and tourists are taller and
weightier than in 1938.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2083660.stm
Tom Stewart, managing director of ergonomics consultants System
Concepts, says that while obesity is a growing problem, healthy Britons
are becoming larger too.

"People are generally bigger than they were. A poor diet used to mean
people didn't reach their full potential size. Improved nutrition has
changed that."

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Mike D