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Intercity capacity reconfiguration

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  • #92
    Jamie2k9
    Registered Users Posts: 10,667 ✭✭✭✭Jamie2k9


    Losty Dublin wrote: »
    This is correct, passengers can move on and off safer and quicker. Also, a train with doors mid way in allows for more standees on board.

    Trains will always stop at a station between 30-90 seconds no matter what type of doors, that won't change anytime with centre or end doors. Someone provide stats from IE real time to back it up as being on both going to/from Maynooth for example and there is no difference in times.

    What do you mean move off safer are you suggesting that half if IE's fleet isn't safe for large numbers using it. No difference what so ever, if you going to fall your going to fall. No half measures.

    Remember people standing is the problem, they all want seats.


  • #93
    n0brain3r
    Registered Users Posts: 919 ✭✭✭n0brain3r


    Didn't want to derail :P the photo thread so am posting here following on from this post http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=88778282&postcount=1131

    Where the changes to the first reconfig prompted by the 4 car ICR's with premier cars or was there more to it?


  • #94
    LXFlyer
    Registered Users Posts: 17,542 ✭✭✭✭LXFlyer


    Yes - that was it.

    Originally sets 22031-22034 lost two coaches each.

    One coach from set 22031 went to 22001 and the second to 22002, 22032 to 22003 and 22004, and so on, so that sets 22x01 to 22x08 all had been reformed to four car.

    However, once it was realised that the 4 car Premier Class sets were a complete disaster from a capacity perspective, it was decided to reform the Premier sets as 5 piece. This meant the coach from 22001 going back to 22031, 22003 to 22032 etc., so that one of the original coaches went back into the original sets.

    This would however have left three and four car sets intermixed (set 1 would be 3-piece, set 2 a 4-piece, set 3 a 3 piece etc.).

    So to keep a semblance of common sense in the numbering, the 4th cars from sets 2, 4, 6 and 8 are being moved to sets 11, 12, 13 and 14.

    The result will be:
    Sets 1-10 - 3 car
    Sets 11-30 - 4 car
    Sets 31-40 - 5 car Premier class
    Sets 41-45 - 4 car
    Sets 46-63 - 3 car


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