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On Sun, 21 Jun 2015 09:59:33 +0000 (UTC), Recliner
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On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 21:03:03 +0000 (UTC), Recliner
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ICBW but wasn't one of the continental test tracks given a fourth rail
to test some tube stock? But it could have been on a circuit with no
overhead.

Which stock would that be? The only tube trains built outside the UK for a
very long time would be the extra Jubilee line 1996 stock

That was probably the stock I was thinking of but as I said ICBW ,
The suggestion by Arthur Figgis that the third rail laid at
Wildenrath was what seeded the idea is most likely.


but I don't know
if that was put on an Italian test track. With such a small order (four
train sets and 59 trailer cars), I doubt that it was worth equipping an
Italian track with a fourth rail electrification system.

Wasn't the stock both original and later build constructed in Spain?
Not sure if was actually built complete abroad or if it was bodies
fitted out later like the 95 stock.

The original orders were assembled by GEC-Alsthom in Washwood Heath (the
old Met Cam works). By the time of the top-up order, that plant had closed,
so they were built by Alstom, I thought in Savigliano, Italy, like the
extra Pendolino order. But maybe they were assembled in Spain and I was
getting confused with the Pendolino order?

Wherever it was can soon expect another top-up order for updated 95TS
trains for the Northern and Jubilee lines.