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Old March 20th 07, 09:29 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Default Asfordby to be used to test air conditioned tube trains

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:24:07 -0000, "Recliner"
wrote:

"Kev" wrote in message
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On Mar 20, 10:40 am, "John Rowland"
wrote:
alex_t wrote:
Sub-surface stock (Met/District/Circle/H&C) will be
air-conditioned. Tube stock will only have air-conditioning in the
driver's cabs. Trials of groundwater colling are being carried out
at Victoria.

Note to myself: rent next flat within walking distance from Met/
District/Circle/H&C.

Note to myself: rent basement flat within spitting distance of
Victoria.


I wonder why Metronet and Tubelines can't club together and have a
joint test track instead of two seperate ones at double the cost.


Does Tube Lines have a separate test track, apart from the 900m
signalling test track within Highgate depot or the fourth track at South
Ealing? As (I think) it's using a different signalling system to
Metronet, there doesn't seem to be much point in using the same test
track.

As far as new trains are concerned, I assume it'll be a few years before
new Piccadilly Line trains need testing. In contrast, Metronet has
all-new fleets coming soon for the Victoria Line and all the subsurface
lines -- a very large fleet of getting on for 2000 cars.


Tubelines only has the test tracks you mentioned (though South Ealing
is a shared resource) except for limited commissioning tracks being
prepared in the depots. The new Picc stock won't need testing until
about 2009/2010 and the test track location may depend on who builds
them and in which country - no contract has been placed for these yet.

Paul