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LU Stock Transfer Routes
"Boltar" wrote in message om... I guess that begs the question of why A stock was given a profile that they knew would not fit in some of the sub surface tunnels. After all , the underground was well and truly integrated in the 60s so it wasn't because the met line was still a seperate competing railway, and London Transport had no way of knowing where the trains might be needed in 20 or 30 years. Seems a strange design decision to make to me. By that token one could then also equally argue why did they give the D78 stock the profile that it has, knowing that it will not fit around the west side of the Circle Line, requiring C69/77 stock to be used on District line Wimbleware services. Truth is, the A60/62 stock was built for the Metropolitan main line (Aldgate - Amersham/Watford/Uxbridge) and for no other purpose and was designed accordingly, in the same way as the D78 stock was designed for the Upminster - Ealing Broadway/Richmond/Wimbledon routes. It was only a later decision to use some spare A60/62 stock on the ELL. The idea of common stock is only really coming about with the replacements for A/C/D stock. We shall see just how appropriate it is to have stock capable of high-density use on the Circle and low-density use on the Met main line in years to come. Perhaps we will then be arguing about how unsuitable the stock is on one or other of the lines because it was not purpose-built for the line in question? |
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