[x-posted to uk.railway]

Jonn Elledge wrote:

Isn't the ELLX going to use networkers? Surely that would solve the
problem,
if the trains could be stopped with the middle four carriages in
platform
and announcements made clearly in about three different forms (e.g.
on
in-carriage line maps, on the tube maps, before the train leaves
Canada
Water or Shadwell).

The current rumour (according to several reliable sources) is that the
Class 458 Junipers will be used - they're due to come off lease with
SWT next year and will probably be stored until the ELLX opens. The
Junipers can easily be made into dual-voltage units (by sticking a
pantograph in the space on top), so could operate on the non-3rd rail
bits of the NLL (unlike the Networkers which AFAIK were only ever built
as DC units. Yes, I know about the 365s.)