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Nice idea on double platforms! It would be neat to see a world where that was done uniformly But I agree, that world is not ours.
by Ericson2314 5y ago
Nice idea on double platforms! It would be neat to see a world where that was done uniformly
But I agree, that world is not ours.
- ant6n 5y agoLook at the track layout for the Tohoku Shinkansen [1], you'll see that on most stations, there are either two platform tracks per direction, or one platform track and one passing track. In this world, on mainline rail, stations usually have more tracks than the lines they connect to. (Yes this is not uniformly so, but trains don´t have to uniformly stop at all stops, they can skip smaller ones to reduce dwell time pressure) Btw, more station tracks than line tracks can also happen on regional rail, for example check out the downton section of RER C in Paris (the yellow line) [2]. [1] https://www.haisenryakuzu.net/documents/jr/shinkansen/tohoku/?lang=en https://www.haisenryakuzu.net/documents/jr/shinkansen/tohoku... [2] http://cartometro.com/cartes/rer-idf/ http://cartometro.com/cartes/rer-idf/
- Ericson2314 5y agoOH I thought you had meant double-decker platforms for a single track, to serve both levels of a double-decker train. For sure more platforms than lines in is a good idea that exists today.
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