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[email protected] · December 31st 15, 11:42 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Steve Lewis) wrote:

IIRC, the additional 7th cars inserted into all of the 96 stock were
unpowered, having concrete blocks in lieu of traction motors so the
weight and suspension settings remained the same. I always assumed
that the new complete trains used the same "obsolete" traction
motors, for the sake of commonality.

I'm sure that I read somewhere recently that LU was looking to
retraction the 95 and/or 96 fleets.

The order included some entire trains as well as the 7th cars.

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Colin Rosenstiel