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378 move and GOB to be DC?
"Neil Williams" wrote
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:56:18 -0700 (PDT), Rupert Candy wrote: Incidentally, why did they have to make a 'pretend Underground train' out of a watered-down suburban train with only 2 doors per side? Surely the future S stock would have made a much better base vehicle for this sort of application? Dunno, but there is no excuse for 2-car DMUs to be being used on this kind of service. Nor should TfL be running 3 cars on the Watfords when 6 would fit with a bit of power upgrading. The whole of LO appears to me to be an almighty expensive cop-out for a capital city. Look at Merseyrail for how it should be done (and without any new MUs), then try again. Merseyrail isn't a good example of how it should be done. The entire electrified system including the loop and link lines were designed for six-car operation, then after a very short time the trains were reduced to three cars - which is why SET and LO ended up with Class 508 units. |
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