On 29 Mar 2007 13:29:52 -0700, "Mr Thant"
wrote:

On 29 Mar, 20:45, Charles Ellson wrote:
Bakerloo tube stock is generally incompatible with both LU surface
stock and the NR-style stock announced as intended to be used on the
"London Overground" services which will eventually use the DC lines,
so those are two reasons for not re-extending Bakerloo Line services
to Watford Junction.

What's your point? If the Bakerloo were extended it would no longer
share any track with National Rail stock, and there are four platforms
(two islands) at Watford Junction for DC Lines and trains via Croxley,
so two could be Met height and two could be tube height.

The DC line is only one part of what will form "London Overground". If
the information in :-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Overground

is correct then the class 378 NR-style stock is already on the way.
The DC line is part of what was built as a network of lines with
common equipment and working arrangements, it is not a self-contained
line. If anything it would be more sensible to run Met trains down the
DC line from Watford to East/South London as they (apart from their
loading gauge) are much more suitable for the line than tube trains.