On Fri, 07 May 2021 23:47:06 +0100
Charles Ellson wrote:
On Wed, 5 May 2021 08:35:13 +0000 (UTC),
wrote:

On Tue, 04 May 2021 22:33:51 +0100
Nigel Emery wrote:
than it was in the early 90s. Had we have won the body shells would
have been made in Japan

Good thing you didn't then.

site. A short test track next to our existing Fighting Vehicle test
track was planned. We didn't have a rail connection which seemed a bit
of a problem to me but at that time that was well above my pay grade!

Wasn't a problem for the 2009 stock that was idiotically made too big** to fit

on the piccadilly line

It was actually made to fit the Victoria Line.
snip

You are really full of amazing facts today.

Yes, we know that, but in doing so it has to be taken to the line by road
not rail. If they had used the extra space inside the train it might have
been worth it, but they wasted so much of it that there's no more room than
in any other stock.