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Old August 13th 05, 12:13 PM posted to uk.transport.london
John Rowland John Rowland is offline
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Default East London Line extention gradient

"Boltar" wrote in message
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Good point. I meant the LU passenger network.


What just south of east finchley and just
south of arnos grove ? They're pretty steep too.


They are sustained descents (ISTR the one south of East Finchley is 1 in 50)
, but there are short descents of 1 in 30 on leaving the majority of deep
tube stations built from the Central Line on. This is to accelerate trains
leaving stations while keeping the electric bill down.

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