Re: [NSW] Who's got the worst trains

[David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>]

David Martin wrote:

> A bit of maths:
>
> Assume 1 Indian carriage has 0.66 (2/3) the capacity of one CityRail double
> decker carriage.
> Therefore, 25,809 CityRail carriages has the same capacity of  Indian 39,104
> carriage fleet.
> From this, you can derive the figure of 426 passengers per Indian carriage,
> slightly more than the 408 quoted for CityRail.
> Do they count the passengers on the roof??!!

This is all based on irrelevant data!  The figures quoted are for all the
passengers to ride in that carriage in a day, not in one trip.  The crush load
for a standard CityRail carriage is 250.



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