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Post by COBO on Jan 17, 2022 22:47:15 GMT
You know the new trains for the Piccadilly Line will the Tube for London as picked by Boris Johnston when he was mayor of London be used?
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Post by Busboy105 on Jan 17, 2022 23:00:36 GMT
You know the new trains for the Piccadilly Line will the Tube for London as picked by Boris Johnston when he was mayor of London be used? They will be but not for a couple decades because of TFL's dire financial situation
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Post by vjaska on Jan 18, 2022 0:43:25 GMT
You know the new trains for the Piccadilly Line will the Tube for London as picked by Boris Johnston when he was mayor of London be used? They will be but not for a couple decades because of TFL's dire financial situation No, the Piccadilly Line trains are due in a couple of years around 2025, the rest of the order is up in the air.
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Post by snowman on Jan 18, 2022 6:53:24 GMT
You know the new trains for the Piccadilly Line will the Tube for London as picked by Boris Johnston when he was mayor of London be used? They will be but not for a couple decades because of TFL's dire financial situation They are delayed by a year, but cancelling the contract would have been too expensive What is not yet clear is if TfL will take up the options for Bakerloo and Central lines. My own thought is sufficient trains have been ordered (94 trains) to operate 27 trains per hour (instead of current 24 tph on Piccadilly), but I could easily see the last few diverted to Bakerloo. Then an additional order placed for Bakerloo (especially now it looks like Lewisham extension won’t be built for at least 20 years, maybe never). I suspect any order for Central line is at least 5 years away (7-8 years before deliveries start).
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Post by Busboy105 on Jan 18, 2022 7:17:11 GMT
They will be but not for a couple decades because of TFL's dire financial situation No, the Piccadilly Line trains are due in a couple of years around 2025, the rest of the order is up in the air. Oh ok, I thought the new trains would be delayed
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Post by ThinLizzy on Jul 19, 2023 21:10:57 GMT
One of the new Piccadilly line trains:
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Post by ThinLizzy on Jul 19, 2023 22:51:34 GMT
Another tweet showing a better view of the new trains:
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Post by capitalomnibus on Jul 19, 2023 23:23:06 GMT
Another tweet showing a better view of the new trains: It looks weird, mainly the wheels
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Post by snowman on Jul 20, 2023 6:33:43 GMT
Another tweet showing a better view of the new trains: It looks weird, mainly the wheels It is basically 5 single vehicles with two bogies (as normal), with 4 shorter suspended bridging sections in between (effectively passenger carrying long couplings). Although some trams have these suspended linking sections, in UK it is unusual I guess if you have a new train on 40 wheels instead of current 48, and it is designed to carry 10% more passengers the axle weight will be higher (even if train is bit lighter than current one)
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Post by george on Jul 20, 2023 10:34:31 GMT
Another tweet showing a better view of the new trains: [br I thought these trains where being built in Yorkshire. Guess there's are in Germany as there's not enough tests tracks in Great Britain.
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Post by Dstock7080 on Jul 20, 2023 10:44:25 GMT
Only ⅓ of trains to be built in Goole, the rest are being built in Vienna Austria. The Wildenrath test facility is in Germany
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Post by COBO on Aug 2, 2023 0:29:10 GMT
I believe these new trains were also for the Bakerloo, Central and Waterloo & City lines do think that this is still might be the case?
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Post by Dstock7080 on Aug 2, 2023 1:34:17 GMT
That is the plan but no funding is available for anything after the Piccadilly. Trains would be of different lengths for other Lines.
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Post by someone on Aug 7, 2023 13:39:11 GMT
That is the plan but no funding is available for anything after the Piccadilly. Trains would be of different lengths for other Lines. I wonder if they could temporarily move the 1973 stocks to run on the Bakerloo Line then?
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Post by M1104 on Aug 7, 2023 14:00:55 GMT
That is the plan but no funding is available for anything after the Piccadilly. Trains would be of different lengths for other Lines. I wonder if they could temporarily move the 1973 stocks to run on the Bakerloo Line then? The 73 stock cars are longer than the Bakerloo's 72 stock and thus won't fit around curves like the one at Waterloo Station.
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