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Old July 2nd 15, 03:31 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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In article , y () wrote:

On Thu, 2 Jul 2015 09:25:30 +0100
"Clive D. W. Feather" wrote:
They were totally unsuitable for JLE, of course. And there wasn't any
other obvious place to put them (there had been talk of an Uxbridge to
Acton Town or High Street Ken shuttle that would use them).


Does seem rather a waste though to bin trains only 15 years old. As the
D train shows, its quite possible to rebuild a tube train. They could have
widened the doors and slung them on the bakerloo.


I think they considered things like that and decided it wasn't worth it.

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Colin Rosenstiel