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double-deckers out of liverpool street

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Old 2nd April 2011, 06:36
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double-deckers out of liverpool street

Nederlandse Spoorwegen have bid for the Great Eastern Railway franchise - does that mean we will see strange yellow double-decker trains going to Tottenham Hale and Shenfield, next stop Cross Rail?


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http://www.ns.nl/ns2007/blobimg/61/464/AtotZtrein.JPG

Here is a dutch double decker - I wonder if that logo is going to be pretty common through chelmsford? Do they fit under GER wires?
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anyone know if their wires are at the same height as ours

I seem to remember cramming 2 decks into one did not work on the southern in 40s & 50s due to slow loading in cramped coaches
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anyone know if their wires are at the same height as ours

I seem to remember cramming 2 decks into one did not work on the southern in 40s & 50s due to slow loading in cramped coaches
These were the Southern 4DD units.

They were double-deck EMUs built in 1949 IIRC, and withdrawn in 1972, they were rarely seen around the network as they were only used on Charing Cross/Cannon Street to Gravesend line.

http://www.semgonline.com/gallery/pics/mt_4dd2.jpg
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Light reading anyone?

http://www.users.care4free.net/~joyc...h/Gaug_Pol.pdf
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