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Originally Posted by spdrun
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Interestingly, the Brits used the kind of "Victorian" compartment cars with a door to each compartment till recently as well. I recall those from the mid to late 90s. Electric powered with a motor under each car, not steam.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slam_door_trains
South west trains eventually bought new rolling stock (as they said they would do decades earlier) in 2005
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