"John Hearns" wrote in message
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wrote:
Was just thinking about the ELL (yes I truly have no life) and got to
thinking:
On the subject of the ELL, how is it going to be electrified?
(Yes, I know it has electrification at the moment and steam trains no
longer run under the river).
Perhaps a stupid question, but on any part of the proposed orbital railway
(ie. ELL, NLL etc) are there any overhead lines?
I guess not.
The ELL will be DC third rail - and I shall be very surprised if in due
course it isn't run by Southern, as contractors to TfL as the services will
have to be timetabled into the existing paths, indeed the extension of the
railway to Crystal Palace and Croydon will subsume certain existing
services.
The NLL and WLL have a mixture of DC third rail and 25kV ohle at the moment,
and the stock is currently dual voltage just like Thameslink, and will
remain so, although there are various proposals for extending the 25kV
setions of the NLL. I'm sure there are details of the stock requirements on
TfL's website somewhere...
Paul S