Thread: First passenger service journey for LUL 09 stock
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Old July 25th 09, 10:36 AM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.railway
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Default First passenger service journey for LUL 09 stock
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 03:30:18 -0700 (PDT), John B
wrote:

Given 40 years of electrical efficiency improvements, and that the new
trains do more or less the same thing as the old trains, that can't be
right can it?

Yes, if they also carry additional load (e.g. aircon) and use AC
traction, which is more lossy than DC traction.

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