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By the looks of it, they run in 3 cars, not 6. The trains are articulated with 2 units.
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No they do run 6 cars more often
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source= ... 8725065875
Search DLR and you will find loads of pictures of them, they run 6 cars
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It's 3 units, each consisting of 2 cars, so 6 cars in total. ;)

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The terms are reversed here. That's a 3 car train consisting of 2 units.
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Sgt_DeBones wrote: 27 May 2019, 18:58 The terms are reversed here. That's a 3 car train consisting of 2 units.
Nope. 3 units, two cars each. The two cars can not be taken apart, and therefore, they operate as a single unit.

Here is an example: https://www.railtech.com/rolling-stock/ ... an-tracks/

"Italian train operator Ferrovie del Sud Est has signed a framework agreement with Polish rolling stock manufacturer Newag for the delivery of six three-car electric multiple units. "

And another, this time even a former London Underground train: https://www.struktonrail.com/news/2019/ ... n-service/

"West Midlands Trains ordered the three two-car units from Vivarail."
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Sjoerd wrote: 27 May 2019, 19:13 Nope. 3 units, two cars each. The two cars can not be taken apart, and therefore, they operate as a single unit.
Not in North America
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we are not talking about North America we are talking about the DLR stock
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Sjoerd wrote: 27 May 2019, 19:13
Sgt_DeBones wrote: 27 May 2019, 18:58 The terms are reversed here. That's a 3 car train consisting of 2 units.
Nope. 3 units, two cars each. The two cars can not be taken apart, and therefore, they operate as a single unit.

Here is an example: https://www.railtech.com/rolling-stock/ ... an-tracks/

"Italian train operator Ferrovie del Sud Est has signed a framework agreement with Polish rolling stock manufacturer Newag for the delivery of six three-car electric multiple units. "

And another, this time even a former London Underground train: https://www.struktonrail.com/news/2019/ ... n-service/

"West Midlands Trains ordered the three two-car units from Vivarail."
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perfecttrains1000 wrote: 27 May 2019, 20:50 we are not talking about North America we are talking about the DLR stock
We weren't talking about North America. We were talking about classifying units and cars. At the end of the day, it's more of a language barrier between North American vs European terms of classifying between individual cars and units. In NA, a single DLR stock is one articulated car made up of 2 units. The same goes for the SG2 and so on.
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I concur with Sgt_DeBones, at MUNI it is a 1, 2 or 3 car train. We just call the sections "A" end, section, part, or half, not car. Sometimes that's called the live section because our A ends always have the pans on 'em. "B" is just the "B" end, section, end, or half. A car is a unit of rollingstock, eg: #1429. A car isn't 1429A or 1429B. A unit is A or B section in North America. And yes, it is a rather odd language barrier since Europe produced the genesis of the American lrvs in the early 70s.
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