Thursday 4 December 2014

Increasing train length is most cost effective capacity solution

The CBD & Southeast Sydney light rail line will have the world's longest vehicles at 67m.

For heavy rail, 10 car trains were revealed in internal Transport NSW documents as one of the most cost effective measures for increasing capacity - a 25% capacity increment for only $149m for Western line station lengthening, and $149m for Richmond line station lengthening: