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#1 ·
Could you please post the pictures of double-deck units of the railways of your country and give some information about them. Routes, Top speed, regular speed, range, number of the stations they stop on a route.
 
#196 ·
In other countries this is quite common though. The first generation doubledeckers for the Zürich S-Bahn uses Loco + 2 cars + cab car consists. Up to three of these can be coupled.
The Dutch railways have been doing this for a while to, with loco + 3 cars + cab car or motor car + 2 cars + cab car.
The NMBS, being in a position that it could learn from the experiences of several other railways choose not to do so, and choose a system for coupling train consists that so far has not really performed reliably. They now schedule more time for the coupling or uncoupling of two sets with automatic couplers than SBB schedules for the coupling of sets with standard UIC buffer and hook couplers...
 
#197 ·
^^ Those examples are different from the trains in Belgium, this one is a fixed composition with a loco in the middle of the set rather then 2 or more sets coupled together.

But it doesn't mean there aren't any examples in Europe where we see 1 loco in the middle of a train. In Switzerland it's common that they add a couple of extra cars to a push-pull set during rush hour. If it's possible they add a compostition with another driving trailer in front of the train, if they only got normal cars or if the driving trailer is facing the wrong direction they put the cars behind the loco creating a train with a loco in the middle like in Belgium.
 
#202 ·
One train per hour and one cyclus is 8 hours ( example:Knokke: 10.05 => Genk: 13.20; Genk: 13.42=>Knokke:16.54). Each train consists of 10 coaches => 10*8=80 coaches for those line. In March or April 2011 there will be 492 coaches in service. 80 coaches of 492 is 1/6 (pretty much).
You're forgetting that not all trains on the IC-E are run with M6, some still have AM96 EMUs.
 
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#212 ·
Those Z2M have been modified by Ansaldo Breda to reach a maximum speed of 180 km/h
Currently they travel at a commercial speed of 150 - 160 km/h between Rabat and Casablanca
 
#219 ·
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