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[email protected] · December 23rd 09, 10:46 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article
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(MIG) wrote:

Yes, this is part of the S-stock upgrade plans: 7-car S-stock trains
the length of current District stock will run all District, H&C and
Circle services.

I didn't realise that, and it seems very odd. Doesn't the problem
apply to several stations in a row? Either there will be one coach
not used by anyone on that stretch, or it would have to be a different
end at different stations.

It think the shortfall isn't so great as to exclude a whole car everywhere
is it?

This sort of thing was tried on the Hampstead tube wasn't it, and I
didn't think it had been all that successful?

Not a fair comparison really. That was the 9 car train experiment on the
Morden-Edgware. So two cars switched out at selected stations, not SDO
affecting no more than one whole car.

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Colin Rosenstiel