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Tube train sizes and, er, other stuff
How many sizes of tube train are there? Central line trains always feel
tiny compared to, say, circles; and it makes sense that a deep tunnel might be smaller than a cut-and-cover; is that so? Are northern/Victoria/Piccadilly any bigger or smaller? How come metropolitan trains feel so much bigger than circles (as big as real trains), when they use the same track? Are they bigger, or is it just the decor? Is it because the northern half of the circle has bigger tunnels? Does that mean one could run real trains through them? Is there any way to get a train from, say, the Anglia or Great Eastern lines near Liverpool St down into the circle? Does the Thameslink tunnel stop at Moorgate? Does that mean we could turn the West Anglia into a Retropolitan (tm) line which connected northeast London with the northern half of the circle? Or take the the met out to Chingford? And what's so light about the DLR? It's standard gauge, after all. Could you in fact take one train and drive it willy-nilly over the entire network? If so, where can i buy second-hand trains? And finally, is it obvious i spend far too much time in the bloody tube and have now lost my mind? Thanks, tom PS Sorry this has no relevance to oyster -- This should be on ox.boring, shouldn't it? |
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