Bombardier MultiLevel Coach double-deck rail car operated by Exo in Montreal, Quebec in Canada. The Lucien-L'Allier station is in the background.Bombardier Double-deck Coaches in Germany, used extensively on suburban trains (here: Rostock S-Bahn)Czech Railways Class Bdmteeo294 in Kolín, Czech Republic.
A bilevel car (American English) or double-decker coach (British English and Canadian English) is a type of rail car that has two levels of passenger accommodation as opposed to one, increasing passenger capacity (up to 57% per car in extreme cases).[1]
The use of double-decker carriages, where feasible, can resolve capacity problems on a railroad, avoiding other options which have an associated infrastructure cost such as longer trains (which require longer station platforms), more trains per hour (which the signalling or safety requirements may not allow) or adding extra tracks besides the existing line.
Double deck trains are claimed to be more energy efficient,[2] and may have a lower operating cost per passenger.[3] A bi-level car may carry up to about twice as many as a normal car, if structure and loading gauges permit, without requiring double the weight to pull or material to build. However, a bi-level train may take longer to exchange passengers at each station, since more people will enter and exit from each car. The increased dwell time makes them most popular on long-distance routes which make fewer stops (and may be popular with passengers for offering a better view).[1]
Double deck cars may not be usable in countries or on older railroad systems with low loading gauge, most notably the majority of the British railway network. In some countries such as the UK new lines are built to a higher than the existing structure gauge to allow the use of double-deck trains in future.[4]
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^"How green are our trains? We don't know, AMT says". The Montreal Gazette. 10 January 2011. Archived from the original on 14 January 2011. Retrieved 11 January 2011.
^"Via Rail begins experiment with Amtrak bi-level train". The Phoenix. 21 September 1984. Retrieved 11 January 2011.
^"Double-decker trains may ease overcrowding". The Telegraph. 30 December 2005. Retrieved 11 January 2011.
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