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What's up with the 73 stock?
On Thu, 24 Nov 2016 09:42:21 -0000 (UTC)
Recliner wrote: wrote: On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 21:34:51 +0000 BirchangerKen wrote: On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 10:16:47 -0000 (UTC), Recliner wrote: These 40+ year old trains are expected to soldier on for the best part of a decade before the NTfLs replace them, so I hope the problem is temporary. The fly-on-the-wall series on the Tube a while back made much of the 73s being LUL's oldest stock, and how difficult it was keeping it in service. One of the programmes was partly based around the fact that there were, I think, 17 trains (units?) out of service due to failts that day. I'm fairly sure I remember as a kid , if there was a door fault on a car the driver would get everyone out of it then somehow disable the doors on that car only so no one could get in except via the gangway doors (which most wouldn't do because then they couldn't get off in time if it was in the rush hour). Now if theres any fault on a door anywhere on a train they take the entire train out of service. There was a similar issue with the 73s a few months ago (when a door opened uncommanded in a moving train), but I thought that had been fixed. In that case, the drivers refused to take them out. This seems to be different. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-35337580 That video of "doors opening on a moving train" is pretty obviously simply down to a driver who opened the doors 1 second before the train had fully stopped. Happens fairly often in my experience. Good to see the BBC keeping up their usual standards of not having a clue. -- Spud |
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