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Bus

Double decker next to a Ferrari

Double-decker buses are almost twice as tall as other buses. They are extensively used in the United Kingdom, where perhaps the most famous is the Routemaster used in London which is now being phased out (as of 2005). Most of the buses in Hong Kong and about half in Singapore are double deckers as well. A few are also being used as tour buses, especially in New York and Paris. Double decker next to a ferrari. ... Double decker next to a ferrari. ... First London AEC Routemaster RML 2473 (JJD 473D) on route 7 at Paddington in 2002. ... The Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster which contains Big Ben London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ...

Some double-decker buses have an open upper deck, with no roof and shallow sides. These are popular for sightseeing tours.

Airplane

The most popular double deck airplane is the Boeing 747, although the top deck is smaller than the lower level. The new Airbus A380, however, has two decks extending the full length of the airplane. The Boeing 747, which is also known as the jumbo jet, is the second largest passenger airliner after the Airbus A380. ... The A380s first landing following its maiden flight on April 27, 2005 The Airbus A380 is a double-decker, four-engined airliner manufactured by Airbus S.A.S. It first flew on April 27, 2005 from Toulouse, France. ...

Train

Because of the standard height of tunnels and overhead power wires, many double-decker trains set the bottom deck lower down between the trucks (bogies in UK parlance). At the entrance platforms of the train there is just a single deck, above the bogies. From there one can go upstairs or downstairs. For example, for the DD-IRM (see below) it is one step up from the station platform to the entrance platform, and from there 7 steps up or 4 steps down. An underground pedestrian tunnel between buildings at MIT. Note the utility pipes running along the ceiling. ... Bogies This game was started by BBCs Dick and Dom as part of their hit childrens TV show, Dick and Dom in da Bungalow. ... Stairs, staircase, stairway, flight of stairs are all names for a construction designed to bridge a large vertical distance by dividing it into smaller vertical distances, called steps. ... A railway platform is a section of pathway, alongside rail tracks at a train station, metro station or tram stop, at which passengers may board or alight from trains or trams. ...

France runs double-decker cars on highly loaded high-speed TGV lines and commuter lines such as the Paris suburban RER. Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) 500 Series Shinkansen, Kyoto station, Kyoto, Japan TGV Réseau class, Marseille St-Charles station, France Amtrak Acela Express, Boston South Station, Boston, Massachusetts This page is about high speed rail in general. ... The TGV is Frances train à grande vitesse; literally high-speed train. Developed by Alstom and SNCF, and operated by SNCF, the French national railway company, it connects cities in France, especially Paris, and in some other neighbouring countries, such as Belgium, Germany and Switzerland. ... A Connex commuter train stands by the platform in Melbourne, Australia Regional rail systems, or commuter rail systems, usually provide a rail service through a central business district area into suburbs or other locations that draw large numbers of people on a daily basis. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... The RER (French: IPA /εr ə εr/) is an urban public transportation network in Paris and the surrounding region. ...

Double-decker rail car operated by GO Transit, Ontario, Canada

Other double-decker railcars do not have a full upper deck but on the left and on the right a gallery, each with a row of single seats. An example are the bilevel cars provided and leased in the U.S. by Midwest Transportation & Development Corporation of Chicago. They are of a design, proven in service and steadily refined, since their initial introduction in the 1950s. (Midwest Transportation & Development's website is [1] (http://www.cl.ais.net/~dbehr)). These cars, known as "bilevel gallery cars", are among the most successful designs ever developed, and are currently in daily use in Chicago, San Francisco, Toronto and Montreal. They provide high capacity (155 to 169 passengers each) and use standard, off-the-shelf components, without relying on proprietary, expensive and hard to get replacement parts. Chicago's commuter rail system Metra is currently receiving new versions of these cars and the San Francisco area commuter rail authority, known as CalTrain, has recently overhauled its fleet of bilevel gallery cars. Go Train This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Go Train This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... GO Transit, officially known as the Greater Toronto Transit Authority (GTTA), is Canadas first, and Ontarios only, interregional public transit system, established to link Toronto with the surrounding regions of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). ... Bilevel cars were a clever design to solve the problem of increasing passenger capacity on railcars, without squeezing more (smaller) seats into the same space and/or decreasing the pitch (distance between seats). ... Metra is Chicagolands commuter rail system, serving over 200 stations on eleven lines across the Regional Transportation Authoritys (RTAs) six-county service area. ... Caltrain is a public supported commuter rail line on the San Francisco Peninsula and the Santa Clara Valley in the United States. ...

Another advantage of bilevel gallery cars is the relatively low first step of the vestibule entrance to the car, which is 14 5/8 inches above the head of the rail. The advantage of this design feature is that commuter rail operators do not have to unnecessarily spend scarce funds on building high level platforms; rather, a low level platform is all that is necessary, at a far lower cost.

Other designs include rolling stock made by Colorado Railcar Manufacturing, Budd, Pullman-Standard, Bombardier, and others house the entrance on the lower deck rather than an intermediate level. The Amtrak Superliners are double-decker trains of this variety, housing the entrance about a step or so up from the lowest station platform level, or at the level of slightly higher platforms, and allowing passage from car to car through the upper corridors of the train. (Colorado Railcar Manufacturing, responsible for constructing the Princess cars on the Alaska Railroad, can be located online at [2] (http://www.coloradorailcar.com/).) A railroad car (or, more briefly, car), also known as an item of rolling stock in British parlance, is a vehicle on a railroad or railway that is not a locomotive - one that provides another purpose than purely haulage, although some types of car are powered. ... The Budd Company (now ThyssenKrupp Budd) is a metal fabricator and major supplier of body components to the automobile industry. ... The Pullman Palace Car Company, owned by George Pullman, manufactured railroad cars in the mid to late 1800s through the early decades of the 20th century, during the boom of railroads in the United States. ... A GO Tranist train on the Richmond Hill line. ... Amtrak is the trademark name of the intercity passenger train system created on May 1, 1971 in the United States. ... The Superliner is a largely disabled-accessible double decker passenger car used by Amtrak, on mainly its western routes. ... Passengers bustle around the typical grand edifice of Londons Broad Street Station in 1865. ... The Alaska Railroad (AAR designation ARR) is a Class 2 railroad that extends from Seward, in the south of the state of Alaska, in the United States, to Fairbanks, in the interior of that state. ...

In some countries such as the United Kingdom, and also in the northeastern region of the United States, the railway system cannot accommodate double decker trains because the loading gauge is too small (i.e. bridges, tunnels, etc. are too low). An intermediate form of two-level seating arrangement has been tried in Britain (the Southern Railway's Class 4DD electric multiple units), where the bottoms of the upper seats are above the heads of the people on the lower level, but the feet of the people above are not, see [3] (http://members.tripod.com/~dart75/bddscut.htm). A loading gauge is the envelope or contoured shape within which all railway vehicles, engines, coaches, and trucks must fit. ... This article is about the edifice. ... An underground pedestrian tunnel between buildings at MIT. Note the utility pipes running along the ceiling. ... The Southern Railway in the United Kingdom was the smallest of the four railway systems created in the Grouping ordered by the Railways Act of 1921. ... The two 4DD electric multiple units were the only double-deck trains to run on the main line railway network in Britain. ... A multiple unit is a passenger train whose carriages have their own motors, either diesel (DMUs) or electric (EMUs), and do not need to be hauled by a locomotive. ...

Double decker trains often have curved windows upstairs. In the evening and in tunnels children love this for the distorting mirror effect. An underground pedestrian tunnel between buildings at MIT. Note the utility pipes running along the ceiling. ... A mirror is a reflective surface that is smooth enough to form an image. ...

In the Netherlands, there are two types of double decker trains, the DDM and the DD-IRM, also called Regiorunner, see Trains in the Netherlands. Trains in the Netherlands Types of trains There are two types of double decker trains: the DDM (Dubbeldeks Materieel, see picture) train, consisting of one or more combinations of 3 or 4 coaches; there are two varieties: without motors, coupled to an electric locomotive; the mDDM: one of the coaches...

In Spain several lines of Cercanías (Renfe's commuter rail service) use double decker trains. RENFE is Spains national railway operator. ...

All electric commuter trains in Sydney are double deck. They all have two doors per side per carriage, with a vestibule at each end at platform height. Well known examples of these trains are the Tangara and Millennium trains. CityRail is the name of the extensive system of urban, suburban and interurban passenger railways based on metropolitan Sydney, the capital city of the State of New South Wales, Australia. ... A Tangara set The Tangara (loosely translated appropriately as Lets go), a class of train in the CityRail (Sydney) rolling stock and manufactured by Goninan is relatively the newest train in CityRails fleet, before the Millennium train. ... The Millennium train is CityRails (Sydney) newest member of its fleet, manufactured by EDi Rail, in Newcastle, NSW. Put into service to finally replace the aging Tulloch trailers (however they have not been completely eradicated and refurbished carriagers are often put into the Comeng/Goninan style trains), they have...

In intermodal freight service, many modern types of container cars are designed to accommodate "double-stacking." Intermodal is a term that refers to more than one mode of transport. ... Containers in the port of Kotka (Finland) on the Baltic Sea. ...

Cable Car (Aerial Tramway)

Main article: Aerial tramway Cable car at Zell am See in the Austrian Alps. ...

The double decker Vanoise Express cable car carries 200 people in each cabin at a height of 380 metres (1250 feet) over the Ponturin gorge. Grand Canyon, Arizona A canyon, or gorge, is a valley walled by cliffs. ...

Tram

There are also double-decker trams. Hong Kong Tramways is the only tram company that operates exclusively double-decker trams. As with the buses and trolleybuses, double decked versions are almost twice as tall as the others. A modern tram in the Töölö district of Helsinki, Finland a historic postcard showing electric-powered trolley streetcars in Richmond, Virginia, where Frank J. Sprague successfully demonstrated his new system on the hills in 1888 For modern innovations aimed at increasing the capacity and speed of tramway systems, see light... Hong Kong Double Decker Tram (#120) Hong Kong Tramways (香港電車 Cantonese IPA: hœŋ1ɡɔŋ2 dɪn6tsɛ1; Pinyin: xiang1gang3 dian4che1) is one of the two tramways in the world which provide regular operation of double-decker trams (the other being Blackpool, England), and is the only system run exclusively with double-deckers. ... The Bus, established by Mayor Frank Fasi, is Honolulus only public transit system. ... An articulated trolleybus in Arnhem A trolleybus (also known as electric bus, trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tram or simply trolley) is a bus powered by two overhead electric wires, from which the bus draws electricity using two trolley poles. ...

Until the 1950s double-decker trams were very common in the United Kingdom, some can still be seen at the National Tramway Museum. Millennia: 1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium Events and trends Technology United States tests the first fusion bomb. ... Categories: United Kingdom-related stubs | Museum stubs | Derbyshire | Museums in the UK | Transport museums ...

They are also in some places, aimed at tourists, e.g. in summer only, e.g in Blackpool and the Isle of Man. Blackpool Tower, Blackpool Blackpool is a seaside town in England, on the coast of the Irish Sea. ...

Bridge

The term double decker is also used for bridges with two road levels, for example the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Tsing Ma Bridge and Kap Shui Mun Bridge have six lanes on the upper decks. On the lower decks there are two lanes and a pair of tracks for trains (the MTR metro). This article is about the edifice. ... A road is a strip of land, smoothed or otherwise prepared to allow easier travel, connecting two or more destinations. ... The Bay Bridge, with the skyline of San Francisco in the background. ... Tsing Ma Bridge by night Tsing Ma Bridge (青馬大橋) of Hong Kong is the worlds fifth longest suspension bridge. ... The Kap Shui Mun Bridge in Hong Kong is the worlds longest cable-stayed bridge carrying both road and railway traffic, with the upper deck for motor vehicles, and the lower deck for both vehicles and the MTR. It has a main span of 430 metres and an overall... Logo of the MTR corporation Causeway Bay MTR station on the Island Line. ...

Tunnel

Some tunnels are double-deck, for example the Eastern Harbour Crossing in Hong Kong, where roads and rails (the MTR metro) occupy different decks of the tunnel. The Eastern Harbour Crossing is a combined road and MTR rail link under Victoria Harbour between Quarry Bay in Hong Kong Island and Cha Kwo Ling in Kowloon. ... Logo of the MTR corporation Causeway Bay MTR station on the Island Line. ...

Elevator

A double-deck elevator is an elevator with two elevator cars attached on top of each other. This increases passenger capacity while occupying less building core space. Double-deck elevators are elevators designed such that two elevator cars are attached one on top of the other. ... A modern elevator has buttons to allow passengers to select the desired floor. ...

Other Meanings

A "double decker", in the American party scene, can also refer to having a bowel movement into the top tank on a toilet. This often proves quite humorous for the host or hostess, who normally do not realize the act has taken place until the following morning.

See also

• Passenger car
• Transport