On 18 Jul 2018 16:32:34 +0100 (BST)
Jonathan Amery wrote:
In article , wrote:
On 18 Jul 2018 15:14:44 +0100 (BST)
Jonathan Amery wrote:
This being the TfL that's so scrapped for cash that it's mortgaging
rolling stock it hasn't finished paying for yet?

The 378s were ordered long before Kahn came in and froze fares.

Also long before there was any finalized plans to electrify the
GOBLIN in any sense; as has been described before.

Not entirely true. The goblin electrification looked pretty certain in 2009
when it would have been fairly easy to roll a few more 378s off the production
line.

Also TfL were already running low on money in the early 2010s which
would have been the latest possible time to order more 378s, and that
at a higher cost than the original units were since they'd used all
their option to buy more units.

Would that cost have been more than the 710s they're ordering now? Either way,
they'd have an electric service running now if they'd ordered more 378s.
Currently they don't.

Half a century? Would the presense of a switched off conductor rail on a
closed for upgrade line cause some some disturbance in The Force preventing
the installation of AC overhead then? Oddly it didn't prevent most of the
rest of the NLL being converted to AC.

No, but having spent millions only 10 years ago will cause a
disturbance in the beancounters.

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10 years ago yes, but I was referring to decades ago when the NLL was first
electrified. I have no idea why the goblin didn't have a 3rd rail put down
at the same time but if it had this problem wouldn't exist.