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Post by linus on Aug 15, 2015 13:19:26 GMT
To my mind the S stock has modern ambience, appears bright and spacious, is comfortable, air conditioned, accessible (level boarding and wheelchair/buggy space) and gives the look and feel of a modern system. The A stock had lots of seats and luggage/umbrella racks.
The need for extra capacity for more and larger people, coupled with the need to comply with disability regs and three wide doors per car between them obligate the loss of quite a lot of seats. And as Metman says, fully transverse 2+2 seating where feasible would only give 2 more seats per car, 16 per train. I find the longitudinal seating more convenient for my medium-length journeys (Liv St to Finchley Road or Wembley Park), largely because it's easier to get on and off.
With the need for 3 pairs of wide double doors per car and inner-city metro duties the new Metropolitan line trains were never going to have anywhere near the numbers of seats as on, say, the excellent South Western suburban Siemens Class 450.
We should consider ourselves lucky the Met S8s are not all-longitudinal as per S7 or Overground 378 (with notably harder seats). And that the As suvived as long as they did.
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Post by linus on Aug 11, 2015 20:03:50 GMT
Excellent, keep up the good work sisters! I'm loving my travels on RTs and RMs, the photo ops, the banter with strangers. Keep them going as long as you can. No one really suffers hardship, they're all making it up for effect. And we all feel your suffering for the shift work and low pay.
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