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Does Wikipedia have an article for express subways trains?
New York's Line 7 has from 2 to 5 tracks and has three tracks for its express train service. During morning rush hours, the express track is used by trains bound for Manhattan. During evening rush hours, the express track is used by trains bound for Flushing.
How does the system do with the trains when they reach the terminal station? Do they send them back via the relatively less-crowded reverse direction? Or do they park the trains in the garage for the evening?
How many countries have 3 or more tracked subway or city rail express services?
Is it worthy to build such a system in other countries? Express trains are faster because they can skip minor stations. However, they can't be very fast because people are constantly walking or standing inside the train If costs and lands are not problems, I probably prefer to build two parallel lines or an elongated circular lines in order to maximize the whole system's capacity rather than to build express-capable lines. -- Toytoy ( talk) 04:47, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
First, New York is the only city to make extensive use of express and local services on the same subway route. There are a few cities that have more limited use of 4-track subway lines with express and local trains: two relatively short sections in London (one bit with the Piccadilly and District Lines as the express and local services, one with the Metropolitan and Jubilee lines), and one in Philadelphia. In most cities the cost of 4-track routes in tunnel has meant that they have not even been considered. They are more common on commuter (suburban) railways that run above ground than on subways. In cities where the need has been felt to build a new route to relieve overcrowding on existing subway lines, generally a completely new 2-track route has been preferred, even if it is effectively an express route due to wider-spaced stations. For example, Line 14 in Paris, and for that matter the 2nd Avenue Subway in New York. Another variant of this is projecting commuter trains into central parts of the city and integrating fares with urban transit, such as the RER system, again in Paris, and S-Bahn in some German cities.
Second, as to as to the point about speed, in cities where express services do exist, they use the same trains as other lines and don't normally reach a higher top speed than locals; they just remain longer at that speed longer, giving a faster average speed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.159.61.172 ( talk) 05:09, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
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Does Wikipedia have an article for express subways trains?
New York's Line 7 has from 2 to 5 tracks and has three tracks for its express train service. During morning rush hours, the express track is used by trains bound for Manhattan. During evening rush hours, the express track is used by trains bound for Flushing.
How does the system do with the trains when they reach the terminal station? Do they send them back via the relatively less-crowded reverse direction? Or do they park the trains in the garage for the evening?
How many countries have 3 or more tracked subway or city rail express services?
Is it worthy to build such a system in other countries? Express trains are faster because they can skip minor stations. However, they can't be very fast because people are constantly walking or standing inside the train If costs and lands are not problems, I probably prefer to build two parallel lines or an elongated circular lines in order to maximize the whole system's capacity rather than to build express-capable lines. -- Toytoy ( talk) 04:47, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
First, New York is the only city to make extensive use of express and local services on the same subway route. There are a few cities that have more limited use of 4-track subway lines with express and local trains: two relatively short sections in London (one bit with the Piccadilly and District Lines as the express and local services, one with the Metropolitan and Jubilee lines), and one in Philadelphia. In most cities the cost of 4-track routes in tunnel has meant that they have not even been considered. They are more common on commuter (suburban) railways that run above ground than on subways. In cities where the need has been felt to build a new route to relieve overcrowding on existing subway lines, generally a completely new 2-track route has been preferred, even if it is effectively an express route due to wider-spaced stations. For example, Line 14 in Paris, and for that matter the 2nd Avenue Subway in New York. Another variant of this is projecting commuter trains into central parts of the city and integrating fares with urban transit, such as the RER system, again in Paris, and S-Bahn in some German cities.
Second, as to as to the point about speed, in cities where express services do exist, they use the same trains as other lines and don't normally reach a higher top speed than locals; they just remain longer at that speed longer, giving a faster average speed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.159.61.172 ( talk) 05:09, 23 March 2016 (UTC)