"Richard J." wrote in message
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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.

I don't think any of the new LU stock is to be articulated. The Vic
stock pics suggest nothing radical, despite all the 'space train' plans
of a few years ago.