Re: [NSW] M set seating capacity

["The Railway Rasputin II." <bob@fastlink.com.au>]

Gondola? Gondola? Huh?
Don't you mean the saloon section?
Anyway what you said plus the fact that there are seats behind the crew
compartment.
Its been a while since I saw the specs but I did note that there was a
deninate increase of capacity.

rgds

Chris Downs wrote:
> 
> The gondola section of the Millennium trains will have 9 rows of seats (each
> 5 across) adjacent to the windows whereas the Tangaras, K sets, S/R-set
> motor cars only have 8 rows adjacent to the windows in the gondola section.
> That gives 10 extra seats per car minus whatever longitudinal seats you
> loose in at the ends of the car.  Not dissimilar to Comeng and Goninan
> trailers which have 9 rows adjacent to the windows
> 
> All styles of cars have a varying number of seats over/under the stairs in
> the gondola section but I see no gain over Tangaras being made there.
> 
> Chris
> 
> Hubert Lam <hubert@imap4.com> wrote in message
> 87lvp0$loq$1@news1.mpx.com.au">news:87lvp0$loq$1@news1.mpx.com.au...
> > How the world does Clyde Engineering manage to fit an extra 30 seats for
> > each M set? According to the Millennium Train brochure, the seating
> capacity
> > for a 4 car consist of D-N-N-D coded M set carriages would be 450, but for
> > the T sets, the D cars will hold 98 and the N cars hold 112, which when
> made
> > into a 4 car consist it'll hold 420 people
> >
> >
> >