London Banter - View Single Post - why are the new Victoria and trains so slow?

[email protected] · August 9th 11, 10:23 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Neil Williams) wrote:

On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:46:19 -0500, wrote:
Even the present NR had generating capacity at one time. It was decided
that the National Grid would be better value. It's hard to see that they
were wrong.

Perhaps the difference is that stations on the mainline had electric
lighting long before the wires went up, unlike the deep Tube.

I wouldn't be so sure of that. I remember lots of stations with only oil or
gas lighting.

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Colin Rosenstiel