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[Doctor Gollum]

That's why our public services, our railways, our national health service, etc., are in such a bad way. We try to make do with throwing good money after bad, spending as little as possible on sticking plasters, instead of ripping it all up and starting again.

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Read an article a few years ago about modernising our railways the best way forward would be double decker carriages so more people could be carried, but unfortunately with our dated railway system incorporating tunnels it would be financially impossible.

That was in fact tried back in the late 1940’s on the Southern Region, with a full set of the coaches still in use into 1971 when I last saw them at Charing Cross Station.  The trouble was, with our commuter rail traffic were speed is everything, the experiment was deemed a failure as it took long for the passengers to disembark, then embark, due to the double layers of passenger space.

Please see:
https://www.google.com/search?q=southern+region+double+decker+train&rlz=1C9BKJA_enGB590GB592&oq=southern+double+passenger&aqs=chrome.3.69i57j0i546l4.15643j1j7&hl=en-GB&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

Not surprised that design didn't catch on. Had one had a noteworthy accident, they would have been scrapped much sooner.

Indeed, Health & Safety today would never approve them

Trains without inter carriage connections were outlawed following several high profile assaults, particularly on the South East Lundun/Kent services. I was probably still at school when that happened.

Double decker trains elsewhere are particularly efficient as commuter transport with well designed easy, and equal access to both levels from platform height lobbies without being excessively tall.

[Mister Rog]

I suggest that people are not too elderly before they start reading. It's rather lengthy.

I will make the effort though.

Sorry. I passed. So, no comment.