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Paul Corfield · October 16th 05, 08:34 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On 16 Oct 2005 11:47:27 -0700, wrote:

Metronet plans to deliver a Line Upgrade for the Bakerloo Line in 2019
with new rolling stock and signalling, a year in advance of the
required London Underground (LU) implementation date.

A whole year? Wow!

At least they are aiming to complete early. Any line upgrade is a huge
undertaking and a year off the programme will be some achievement.

Does anyone find it funny that some people will religiously change
their car after 12-36 months, while these trains will be FORTY SEVEN
years old when they finally get replaced?

A car is not a train.

The main issue is that each line has to be upgraded and one line has to
be last. That is the Bakerloo and it was a LU decision to time it for
2019 not a Metronet one. There is only so much workload that both LU
and the Infracos can cope with in terms of supporting projects of this
scale while maintaining services. The involvement of Network Rail and
all of the integration issues surrounding signalling and control systems
as well as the rolling stock does not make the Bakerloo Line an easy
line to tackle.

I presume they must be getting another refurbishment in that time? The
Victoria/Bakerloo interior is pretty good, but it won't last another 14
years!
Information screens are a must I would have thought - and something to
be added now, not in 2019.

If there is another upgrade then it would involve the provision of
customer info displays etc. I shall need to check if one is included in
the BCV contract or not.
--
Paul C

Admits to working for London Underground!

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