On 30 Jan, 13:04, Paul Corfield wrote:
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 04:25:57 -0800 (PST), MIG

wrote:
This morning I've seen a three-unit train running on the DLR, with the
designation "Special", in between other services.

(Am I the only one having trouble perceiving the "articulated
vehicles" as anything other than units of two coaches?)

Presumably it is some kind of test run. *The one I saw was made up of
the new units.

Probably heading for the possession area to test the signalling at Royal
Mint St junction as well as line into and out of Bank. *All supposed to
reopen on Monday with three unit trains being phased into service after
that.
--
Paul C

It appeared to be doing a Lewisham and back, so probably doing more
general trial runs as well.

I would have been interested to see where it stopped at the stations
which will be using SDO. Most stopping points have been shifted to
where the front of the train will always end up in future, ie the same
place regardless of train length.

Now it occurs to me that, with phased introduction, the SDO stations
will have to have different stopping points for different lengths of
train.