Boltar wrote:
"Cast_Iron" wrote in message
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Tube stock and surface stock are approximately the same
width, it is only

Not true , surface stock is a foot wider which amounts to a
lot more extra
room inside the carriages.

Of course situations change and hindsight is a wonderful
thing. I am however

You don't need hindsight to know that bigger trains =
better carrying
capacity.

quite sure that if it had been decided to build the
Heathrow extension to
surface stock loading gauge the whingers would have been
complaining about
the additional expenditure and little use.

Even if the picc continued running the main service to the
airport some
distruct trains could have used it occasionally to take up
the slack, the
same way that the picc and met run togather to uxbridge.

B2003

"They" could have done all sorts of things, if the cash was available. Are
you looking at this from a 1960s perspective or a 2000s one?