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[email protected] · September 4th 15, 11:07 AM posted to uk.transport.london

On Fri, 4 Sep 2015 02:08:26 -0700 (PDT)
wrote:
Canning Town to Stratford DLR (taken over from NLL) provides useful connect=
ions northwards, and Stratford has tons of connections to all kinds of plac=
es.

Personally I think that link would have been far more useful as part of the
upgraded Overground NLL. I don't really understand the reasoning behind making
it part of the DLR. Instead of some nice 378s you have to ride on rattly
uncomfortable DLR trains and change at stratford if you wish to continue
further around the NLL.

Bromley South
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It would use the DLR Beckton depot, if there's room, but the vehicles=20
would have both pantographs and DLR shoes.

That's a very long way for a tram, and I'm not sure how easy it would be to=
interface with the various railway and DLR platforms/power supplies/signal=

Poor old Basil Brush seem to have forgotten its DC 3rd rail south of the river.
Good luck getting 2 types of shoe to work reliably on one train. Aside from
that the DLR trains almost certainly wouldn't get a mainline safety
certificate for crash worthiness.

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Spud