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On Thu, 5 May 2016 08:53:00 -0000 (UTC)
Recliner wrote:
I wonder if the grand plan with the Picc platforms is to introduce lower
floor trains (NTfL) that will provide a long term solution, rather than
temporarily raising some platforms? Short humps provide a temporary

Could be - though when T5 was built would they have been thinking that far
ahead? I never really understood why the tube - and NR to be fair - had an
issue with making straight platforms the same height as the train floor. It
seems to me a no brainer that would cost nothing and there wouldn't be any
gauging issues as the platform lip would have to be further back than normal
anyway.

What's now called the NTfL has been under consideration for many years,
well before T5 was built.


solution in the meantime. This has been the method adopted with the SSR,
where the lower-floored S stock solves the problem, though as you keep
pointing out, it also means you get gaps with curved platforms, such as at
Finchley Road (where a lot of people dash across the platform to catch a
connecting train).

Indeed. However I do wonder with low floor tube stock how they're going to
cram in the equipment. Apparently its a bit of a squeeze even now getting the
stuff in under the floor.

Mainly through having fewer bogies with the articulated trains. The
carriages will have uninterrupted space between the ends.

See http://content.tfl.gov.uk/ntfl-feasibility-report.pdf