Britain's first Double-Decker train, 1949

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Nice short! Not what I'd call double-decker or bilevel, but certainly practical with the low clearances in the UK.

A tidbit, those 'strip lights' (actually not fluorescent but incandescent bulbs) were, if no longer, made locally for US production here in Chicago. Still a US patent though!
 
Nice short! Not what I'd call double-decker or bilevel, but certainly practical with the low clearances in the UK.
The original (1999) RER-E stock in Paris has an arrangement almost like that.

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Now that step up is a gap to mind!

(and so rusty - makes Metra look good)
Fortunately they were augmented with new single level stock in 2009. I don't know how many, if any, are still in service.

Most European railways do not even pretend to try to have level boarding at all stations.
 
The DD sets were designed by Bulleid just before nationalisation. In practice the disadvantages - of which longer station dwell times were one - meant that only the two prototype 4-car sets were built. They survived until 1971.
 
The DD sets were designed by Bulleid just before nationalisation. In practice the disadvantages - of which longer station dwell times were one - meant that only the two prototype 4-car sets were built. They survived until 1971.

I believe one if not several cars still survive today in some museum, but have not been cared for and are in increasingly decrepit condition.
 
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