"Paul Scott" wrote in message
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"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

Paul

I suspect that you may be right. It may be of interest that the initial
thoughts of the powers that be were that the ELL would have control and
priority of all the main line sections it was extended over! I had to
prepare a few high level tender calculations based on that design although I
had to add very strong riders about the inadvisability of even attempting it
and the unlikeliness of it going ahead - it didn't!

Peter
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Peter & Elizabeth Corser
Leighton Buzzard, UK



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