France’s new high-speed trains

Re:France’s new high-speed trains by benj111 on Thursday February 28, 2019 @02:53AM (#19269745)

"the train’s shorter engine (59 feet instead of the current 72) opens up as much as 20 percent more space for passengers"

Does it? Why?

The max percentage increase is going to be for the shortest trains, where space isn't an issue anyway.

But then even ignoring that, does the driver need a platform? Why not have the two motor units overhang the platform?

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Re:France’s new high-speed trains by francilien on Thursday February 28, 2019 @04:52AM (#19270206)

It was once tried at Gare de Montparnasse, but wasn’t too successful.

Most of the TGV traffic is at Paris, where all stations in the city are terminus stations. So you’ll always have one power car at the platform and on the other side you are often constrained by signals.

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Re:France’s new high-speed trains by Markoff on Thursday February 28, 2019 @04:59PM (#19275680)

i also fail to see how can you stuck 180 more passengers on 13 feet, can someone walk-in it to me? heck even if it would be metres it would still not make sense, that's more than one coach at least

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