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Old April 21st 08, 05:17 PM posted to uk.transport.london
John B John B is offline
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Default Central line to be converted to AC?

On 21 Apr, 18:10, Roland Perry wrote:
That's GBP1-1.5m per train, or GBP150-200k per carriage. Doesn't
sounds a million miles out...


For a couple of electric motors!!!!


About 10% of the cost of a new carriage to replace the whole drive
system? Sounds pretty reasonable to me...

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