Neil Williams ) gurgled happily, sounding
much like they were saying :

(and they can't come back into service until
every train has the extra carriage).

Why not?

Presumably to protect against a situation where the JLE doors "think" it's
a long train, but it isn't.

In message 70, Adrian
writes
Neil Williams ) gurgled happily, sounding
much like they were saying :

(and they can't come back into service until
every train has the extra carriage).

Why not?

Presumably to protect against a situation where the JLE doors "think" it's
a long train, but it isn't.
Can't they just add the extra car but leave it permanently locked and
out of use until all train have been so equipped? Or am I missing
something here? (I realise I must be but I'm sure someone will spell
it out!)

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Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

Registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk

Ian Jelf ) gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying :

Can't they just add the extra car but leave it permanently locked and
out of use until all train have been so equipped?

Can you IMAGINE the shouting at rush hour?

In ,
Ian Jelf typed:

Can't they just add the extra car but leave it permanently locked and
out of use until all train have been so equipped? Or am I missing
something here? (I realise I must be but I'm sure someone will spell
it out!)

Locking out one car would prevent or delay access to end doors in case of
emergency.





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Bob

In message , Bob Wood
writes
In ,
Ian Jelf typed:

Can't they just add the extra car but leave it permanently locked and
out of use until all train have been so equipped? Or am I missing
something here? (I realise I must be but I'm sure someone will spell
it out!)

Locking out one car would prevent or delay access to end doors in case of
emergency.

I knew there'd be a reason but I couldn't just see it. Thanks folk.

(I wrote that the day after returning from honeymoon, by the way, so I
hope I'm excused a little lateral thinking! Good to be back everyone.)
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Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

Registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk

In message , Ian Jelf
writes

Presumably to protect against a situation where the JLE doors "think" it's
a long train, but it isn't.

Can't they just add the extra car but leave it permanently locked and
out of use until all train have been so equipped? Or am I missing
something here? (I realise I must be but I'm sure someone will spell
it out!)

No. The internal doors in the train would still allow access to the
locked out car and can't be secured for safety reasons. Can you imagine
the fuss when someone managed to get into the 'unused' car, as they
would, and then couldn't get out because the doors didn't open.

This is a similar reason to why a train is taken out of service if one
car is unavailable for any reason - the out of service car can't be
secured.
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