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Old August 13th 10, 06:24 PM posted to uk.railway,misc.transport.urban-transit,uk.transport.london
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Default 'Runaway train' on London Tube

On Aug 13, 11:07*am, Charlie Hulme
wrote:
Tim Fenton wrote:
It's downhill from where the coupling broke (between Highgate and
Archway), through Tuffie Park (you can see the falling gradient from the
southbound platform) and Kentish Town and probably through Camden Town.
But I suspect - though I don't have a gradient profile - that it
flattens out before Euston.


Don't the underground tube stations generally have up-gradients
on the approach and down-gradients on exit to assist braking and
acceleration respectively?

Charlie


AFIK, only the LU Central Line.