On 2 Nov 2012 17:51:36 GMT, Neil Williams wrote:

There is no specific number of standing passengers permitted, basically as
many as you can fit. So there is no standard figure that could be used.

No health and safety rules?

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jhk

In message , at 23:27:31 on
Fri, 2 Nov 2012, Jarle H Knudsen remarked:

There is no specific number of standing passengers permitted, basically as
many as you can fit. So there is no standard figure that could be used.

No health and safety rules?

There have been isolated cases of train guards refusing to move a train
with people in the vestibules, but 999 times out of 1000 people will be
allowed to stand on every available bit of floor.
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Roland Perry

On 02/11/2012 22:27, Jarle H Knudsen wrote:
On 2 Nov 2012 17:51:36 GMT, Neil Williams wrote:

There is no specific number of standing passengers permitted, basically as
many as you can fit. So there is no standard figure that could be used.

No health and safety rules?

No. It would be very hard to enforce it, with a walk-on service.

There have allegedly been cases on older trains of the weight of
passengers distorting the coach, so the doors wouldn't close.


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Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK

Arthur Figgis wrote:

No. It would be very hard to enforce it, with a walk-on service.

On buses, where there is a stated capacity, it is either unenforced or so
high that you couldn't reasonably get that may on anyway. The one thing
that doesn't usually happen is standing upstairs, though that is more
because people don't do it than because anyone refuses to move the bus
until they go downstairs.

Neil
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Neil Williams in Milton Keynes, UK. Put first name before the at to reply.

On 5 Nov 2012 10:01:57 GMT
Neil Williams wrote:
that doesn't usually happen is standing upstairs, though that is more
because people don't do it than because anyone refuses to move the bus
until they go downstairs.

Its probably because the ceiling is low and the bus sways more on the top
deck so its just too uncomfortable to stand for any length of time.

B2003

In message

..net, at 10:01:57 on Mon, 5 Nov 2012, Neil Williams
remarked:
On buses, where there is a stated capacity, it is either unenforced or so
high that you couldn't reasonably get that may on anyway.

That's not true everywhere. In Nottingham there are numerous new double
decker buses with very low "Standing" capacity (I mean two or three) for
no obvious reason, unless it's because they have a very high seated
capacity and there's some other rule regarding maximum occupancy.
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Roland Perry

Jarle H Knudsen wrote:
On 2 Nov 2012 17:51:36 GMT, Neil Williams wrote:

There is no specific number of standing passengers permitted, basically as
many as you can fit. So there is no standard figure that could be used.

No health and safety rules?

Not as such. Or at least not that are in any way enforced.

Trains regularly run crammed full with standing passengers such that no
more could physically board.

Neil
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Neil Williams in Milton Keynes, UK. Put first name before the at to reply.