Thread: Have the 483s had their final run?
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Old December 14th 20, 10:56 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Default Have the 483s had their final run?
On Mon, 14 Dec 2020 16:06:54 +0000, Basil Jet
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On 14/12/2020 08:56, wrote:
On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 21:50:13 +0000
" wrote:
On 12/12/2020 14:05, Graeme Wall wrote:
Shouldn't they have done that before ordering the new trains?

When the New York City Subway started commissioning and testing what was
then the brand new R-38 in the 60s, they realised that there was loading
no gauge on some of the tighter curves, particularly on the Fulton
Street Line.

This prompted the works to allow gauge clearance as well as removing
some of the walkways around towers (signal boxes).

IIRC something similar happened when the 73 stock arrived on the Piccadilly
line. The new cars were longer and so the throw was greater and the tunnels
linings around south ken had to be "shaved".

IIRC vertical curves rather than horizontal or was that the Central
Line ? Gauging runs at low speed hadn't sufficiently imitated normal
running conditions.

The 2014 French example is the biggest I'm aware of.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27497727
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