"Tom Anderson" wrote in message
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On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, tim..... wrote:

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On Oct 3, 10:37 am, sweek wrote:
On 3 Oct, 10:32, "tim....." wrote:
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On Oct 2, 7:22 pm, Offramp wrote:

So it looks like the crazy old Crossrail is going ahead! Coooooool!

Question is , will they do the sensible thing and build the tunnels
to UIC gauge so there is at least the possibility of running
dedicated double deck trains through them

Double deck trains don't work on frequently stopping lines with
overlapping journeys like crossrail is expected to be.

The Germans tried them in Munich as a solution to their capacity
problem and promptly took them off again as they added no extra
capacity.

True. Double decker trains are mostly a solution for trains terminating
at a big terminal, since most people will be getting off at just one
stop.

They seem to work quite nicely on the RER in paris.

which only proves that they work in Paris

I'd be interested to hear why you think London (and Munich!) is different
from Paris in this respect.

I suspect that it didn't work at Munich because there is a very
large change over of pax at one station: Munich Hauptbahnhof.

Crossrail will have the same profile at Liverpool Street.

tim