London Banter - View Single Post - UNDERGROUND TRAIN QUESTION / 1986 PROROTYPE STOCK

Boltar · October 26th 04, 01:56 PM posted to uk.transport.london

(Soniakostas) wrote in message ...
Hi i have a few qurstions to ask regarding to the underground trains that
always made me wonder.

1) Firstly when a train goes does the first car pull and the last one push ?
otherwise how just one car can pull so many other cards same size as itself ?
In the rasilway trains one carriage is pulling and the last is pushing i was
wondering if the same happens to the underground trains.

No. Usually roughly every 2nd car has its own motors but on the 1992 stock
on the central line every car has motors.

Did these trains ever carried passengers or they just used them to test the
engineering of the forthcoming trains ? if thats what they were used for
howcome they were completely furnished inside with seats maps and everything ?

AFAIK they were prototype stock for the 92 stock now running on the central
line and they were full working trains designed to test out passenger
reaction to them. LUL didn't bother with this approach with the new Jubilee
and Northern line trains however, they just introduced the trains and there
was no passenger feedback in the design process mores the pity.

Lastly were these prototype trains in service long andf how many were created
if anyone knows

3 i think but don't hold me to that.

B2003