London UK, Crossrail built by Bombardier

[danbrotherston]

The last sentence is a bit misleading the way it's written.  Sure, it's a true statement - but it's no different than any other subway/metro/commuter type vehicle.  You can have 4 people per square metre standing, or about 1/4 of that sitting.  Toronto's subway trains have about 50 seats per car (so 300 seats per train), but can hold over 1800 people in crush loading.

This is true, but crossrail has been described less as a subway and more heavy rail, headways on the farthest stations may only be every 1/2 hour for example.


Of course, the crush capacity is likely only to be needed on the inner areas where travel times are shorter and trains are more frequent.

It is different from typical commuter trains where more frequently most people have a seat.