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Originally Posted by electricron
True, if you consider a max train length of 4 cars being heavy rail. Compared to 8,10, or 11 car long heavy rail subway trains in New York, that is a difficult pill for me to swallow.
HART station platform lengths being built max out at 240 feet.
NY subway station platform lengths are (1) IRT stations have platforms that are generally 525 feet long; (2) most BMT platforms are around 615 feet long, and (3) some IND platforms are 660 feet.
Note: 240 feet is less than half the length of NY subway's shortest platforms.
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Heavy rail is about capacity, grade-separation, and frequency. Paris Metro, one of the best and busiest rapid transit systems in the world, operates mostly short trains. Line 1, fully automated and the busiest in the network, is only 296-feet long.
London Underground also has shorter train lengths compared to the NYC Subway, its busiest line (the Northern Line) operating trains 354 feet in length.