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minus-squareSomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agoParis’s RER A is an extreme example, with 10-car double-deck trains moving 2,600 people, ~30 trains per hour. More than a million daily journeys. The Victoria line is a more frequency-heavy system, with 8-car single deck trains at 1100 passengers at 36tph, or 40k PPHPD. Fully underground systems usually have shorter trains due to the constraints and costs of building longer underground platforms.
Paris’s RER A is an extreme example, with 10-car double-deck trains moving 2,600 people, ~30 trains per hour. More than a million daily journeys.
The Victoria line is a more frequency-heavy system, with 8-car single deck trains at 1100 passengers at 36tph, or 40k PPHPD.
Fully underground systems usually have shorter trains due to the constraints and costs of building longer underground platforms.