Joe wrote:
In the new trains planned for the Victoria Line, will they be
articulated, similar to the DLR (or another kind, similar to line 1
of the Paris metro), or will they be the "Conventional" type used
on all tube trains currently?

The MP89 stoock on Line 1 of the Paris Metro is not articulated. It
uses conventional bogies, but it does have near-full-width inter-car
connections. The same will also be true of Bombardier's MF2000 stock for
Paris.

I think I read somewhere that the new LU sub-surface stock will be the
first on LU with full-width gangways, which suggests that the earlier
Victoria Line cars will have conventional car ends. To use articulated
stock in the tunnels, you would need to have shorter cars, hence more of
them, which negates the cost saving from having fewer bogies per car.
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Richard J.
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