Thrashy@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoWhoever wrote this headline has never encountered a passenger train before in their liveslemmy.worldimagemessage-square107fedilinkarrow-up1773
arrow-up1773imageWhoever wrote this headline has never encountered a passenger train before in their liveslemmy.worldThrashy@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square107fedilink
minus-squaremoitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·edit-24 months agoIt doesn’t double the capacity. It’s more a 30% increase. And, double-deckers are actually old. They date from the 19th century. In 1855, the Chemin de fer de l’Ouest introduced double-deckers on suburban lines of Paris. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiture_Ouest_à_impériale Modern double-deckers date from the 1930s, with the Voiture à étage Etat: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiture_à_étage_État
It doesn’t double the capacity. It’s more a 30% increase. And, double-deckers are actually old. They date from the 19th century. In 1855, the Chemin de fer de l’Ouest introduced double-deckers on suburban lines of Paris.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiture_Ouest_à_impériale
Modern double-deckers date from the 1930s, with the Voiture à étage Etat:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiture_à_étage_État