On 17 Aug, 09:50, wrote:
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 06:39:17 -0700 (PDT)

Andy wrote:
2009 stock is delivered by road to Northumberland Park, as it isn't
cleared for passage on the Piccadilly and onto the Victoria line via
the crossovers from Finsbury Park.

I read that 2009 stock is only 4cm wider that 67 stock. Are clearences
really so tight on the piccadilly that they couldn't be moved slowly via
rail over that line?


The cars are also slightly longer than the '67 stock, so the overhang
on the tight curves on the Piccadilly line is probably too much.
That's not to say that they wouldn't squeeze down the Piccadilly
tunnels running slowly, just that the time taken may be too long to
fit around the nightly engineering works.