"Boltar" wrote in message

What for?

I'll throw that one back at you and ask ''why not''. The Bakerloo goes
to Harrow (and used to go to Watford), the ELLX is projecting LU service
over NR routes, Croxley link (if ever) are examples.

Its being designed for the tube system

Actually, no its not.

S-stock does NOT run in the tubes but on the sub-surface lines.

not national rail.
Different radio
systems, different ATP systems

So what ?

Stop looking at details and think about the bigger picture.

, possibly a slightly different loading
gauge,. not to mention
the 4th rail shoes dangling inbetween the rails that could foul some
mainline track systems.

So 4th rail surface trains are out of gauge at Wimbledon and Richmond
are they ? Met A stock knocks NR infrasture to pieces every time one
goes to Amersham ?

S-stock is being built as common stock for all sub-surface lines. I'd be
pretty sure that spec would more or less put them within NR gauge.



Anyway , why would district stock ever run through to tilbury anyway?

I actually said Tilbury lines not Tilbury i.e. the LTS or C2C routes.

And - as been pointed out already - District trains did used to run
further than then they do now to beyond Upminster.


There was so much negative thinking in your response. If everything
proposed was dealt with your way nothing would ever move forward. It was
that type of thinking that leads to the ''we don't want air brakes
because we've already got vacuum brakes'', ''we've already got paraffin
tail lamps what do we need electric lamps for'' and ''BedPan and
Blackfriars work perfectly well what do we need Thameslink for''
brigade. We'd still be running unbraked open trucks with men waving red
flags in front of them.


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Nick



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