On 10 Apr, 10:06, chunky munky wrote:

On Apr 10, 12:16 am, Mizter T wrote:

On 9 Apr, 22:13, Tom Anderson wrote:

On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Mr Thant wrote:

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Trains rarely need to leave their home line, though I have heard talk of
seeing if they can be squeezed down the Piccadilly Line.

Is there a connection to the West Anglia at Northumberland Park?
Presumably, even a chubby tube train is smaller than NR gauge. Don't know
if you could run to anywhere useful from there, though.

No connection whatsoever, nor am I aware that there ever has been. I'm
curious as to whether there were ever any suggestions of putting in a
connection when the line was being planned?

I don't think there'd be any problem finding the space to fit in a
connection, but I suppose it just wouldn't be worth the cost - easier
and cheaper to sort out any problems in the Piccadilly line tunnels to
allow these new Vic trains to pass through them en-route to the
Northumberland Park depot (see my post upthread which suggests that
the new stock *will* in fact be delivered by rail, not road).

Trials were carried out a few months back after close of traffic with
a 67TS with polystyrene strips on running on the Piccadilly to
Finsbury Park Victoria. I don't know the outcome though!


Have any Piccadilly line regulars seen a blizzard of polystyrene
flakes recently me wonders?!