why all the hate for hs2?

[Penfold101]

Dammit - why did no-one think of ‘more trains’ before!

 

[adidan]

Our rail network is too congested for that.

A German company designed a double decker carriage specifically for the UK network, not sure what happened to that nor why it wasn't implemented.

It'd certainly help with capacity.

 

[GreatAuk]

A German company designed a double decker carriage specifically for the UK network, not sure what happened to that nor why it wasn't implemented.

It'd certainly help with capacity.

Be interesting to see it, but will have involved some big design compromises because of how relatively tight our loading gauge is compared to most European railways. Even if it was viable, double decker trains aren't necessarily always desirable though - you don't actually get double the capacity, and dwell times at stations have to be significantly longer because it takes longer for people to get on and off.

So on busy routes you might be able to fit more people on one train, but you might have to run fewer trains, journeys might be longer, and the trains themselves will be heavier and more expensive.

This looks like the one, proposed to be part of the HS2 fleet that would run on conventional lines after leaving HS2 infrastructure: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AeroLiner3000

Aeroliner 3000 DOUBLE-DECK TRAIN FOR THE BRITISH LOADING

Could the classic-compatible AeroLiner3000 ease the UK capacity...

www.modernrailways.com

 

[loftie]

A German company designed a double decker carriage specifically for the UK network, not sure what happened to that nor why it wasn't implemented.

It'd certainly help with capacity.

What @GreatAuk said.

 

[SpellowHouse]

It kind of sums up the UK governments approach to everything infrastructure/construction wise in that they found out they could only afford one good aircraft carrier, so decided to build two average ones because two sounds more impressive

Then rent them out to the US because we don't have any planes for them.