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Class 376 deployment questions
"R.C. Payne" wrote in message ...
S R wrote: I can't see any reason why they'd diagram in such a way to be 376 only, but it could be done in theory, which is why I assume the OP asked the question. My reason for asking was concern that routes limited by platform length to 8-car trains would see all their peak-period 6- and 8-car trains replaced by 5-car trains. Which stations/routes are restricted to 8 cars? I might have been sensible to have designed the 376s with selective door opening to permit 10 car working to these stations. What actually is the history of the 12 car networker thing? I recall lots of platform lengthening happening at about the time the networkers were coming in, but I wasn't really paying attention at the time? What work was left undone that would have allowed 12 car trains, and what were the originally intended routes for them? Robin I can't give a list of what work was left undone, but I remember a lot about the period. The Networkers were originally all going to be units of four. The platforms were long enough for ten-car EPBs, but the Networkers were going to have to be shorter (eight-car) if the platforms weren't extended to allow for twelve. But then three incompatible things happened. 1) The extension of all (most?) of the relevant platforms took place, requiring Charing Cross to be closed for three solid weeks at one point, and resulting in the disappearance of platform 7 at London Bridge. 2) The order was changed to include two-car 466s, which meant that there could be ten-car trains anyway. 3) The Networker trains, for a long time, were a maximum of eight cars, and for many years the average length was shorter than the EPBs had been. The main result of the extended platforms has been to give the various operators a good laugh watching people chasing short trains to the far end of the platform. |
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