In message .com,
Rupert Candy writes

It has indeed, and been fitted with 'proper' driving cabs and was
spotted a few months ago being driven down real streets on the U17.

I didn't know they did on-street running. Does that line have high
platforms, then? (Dragging us back on topic, that shows that the DLR
could, given pantographs, cope with street running extensions...)

Yes it does - high platforms at every station.
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