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Originally Posted by Foghut
AFAIAA, unlike a bus there is no limit for the number of people allowed on a train.
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That's intersting. About 5 years ago I was sitting on a fairly overcrowed HST train waiting at Paddington when the "train manager" made an annoucement before departure time that the train was overloaded and he wouldn't let the train depart until some people got off.
I did get off, but perhaps I should have been a bit smarter and demand an upgrade to first class and free FGW coffee in compensation.
I have ocassionally wondered how he had decided the train was overloaded, especialy as I have travelled on many worse overfilled trains on this route. Perhaps one of the power cars wasn't working - so the train would have had no chance of getting out of Paddington against the gradient and round the curve