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Originally Posted by Pesmo
It may be possible in the future as some of the freight routes are having their loading gauge increased due to the new taller Containers
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But that will only give an extra foot clearance and in any case doesn't cover lines into the London termini where the double-decker trains would really come in handy. It's only being done because the shipping industry is moving en masse from 8'6" high containers to high cube 9'6" types and the UK's railways are belatedly trying to catch up. Should have been done years ago.
It's rather ironic that most of the places that have the clearance to easily run double-deck passenger trains have relatively little need of them - think the US, Russia, South Africa...