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Old May 5th 21, 03:42 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
Charles Ellson[_3_] Charles Ellson[_3_] is offline
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Default I.O.W reopening delayed.

On Tue, 4 May 2021 07:21:57 +0000 (UTC), wrote:

On Tue, 04 May 2021 01:46:52 +0100
Charles Ellson wrote:
On Mon, 3 May 2021 08:09:58 +0000 (UTC),
wrote:
There are so many curved platforms on the picc I can't see them bothering
with platform doors.

That won't stop the use of platform doors; it just requires a suitable
design.


Why spend the money on trivia when there are far better uses for it. Retro
fitting platform doors is probably a lot more expensive that designing them
in from the start. Plus a lot of victoria/edwardian tube platforms are quite
narrow and adding platform doors would make things even worse.

The doors aren't there for the convenience of the passengers.

The other door alignment problem could be the driver's ability to see
the ATO stopping mark; IIRC there was no view directly to the side of
the driver's seat on 1983TS.

Maybe, but thats hardly beyond the wit of man to solve.

Not if the place where you want to insert your window contains a
necessary structural component which would make it cheaper to build a
new vehicle.


I doubt 1 window would influence structural integretary that much. They're
frame based, not monocoque.

If you have a thick piece of frame then it will be thick for a reason
and you won't be wanting to bore holes through it.
However, having now found cab photos in :-
https://www.squarewheels.org.uk/rly/...1983tubeStock/
there is a side view from the driver's seat.