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Re: Misapprehensions by normals

On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 18:43:47 +0100, David Buttery wrote
> On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:01:18 -0700, tshanazt@aol.com wrote:
>
>> or "bloody British Rail". And why can't they put an extra carriage on
>> the (fixed formation) train?
>
> Judging by an interesting conversation I overheard the other week, a
> number of passengers are now aware that putting on *more* trains on many
> routes is impossible (or at least impractical) because there is no space
> for them. Thus, the obvious solution is to lengthen the most crowded
> existing trains. The fact that this may also be impossible doesn't make
> the passenger's view any less reasonable!

I suspect that, to the average passenger, it seems staggeringly obvious that,
if there's no room for more trains, the solution is to make the existing
trains longer.

The fact that it is impossible to lengthen the existing trains would, I
suspect, seem like an insane piece of design to TMOTCO