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JJontyMort replied to the thread USA Rail strike?.Yes, it is. It was Tuesday, Thursday (today), and Saturday. Obvious that caused - and was designed to cause - seven days’ chaos for the...
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JJontyMort reacted to AmtrakMaineiac's post in the thread Elizabeth Line and some additional bits about Transport for London with
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The East London Line before it was "Overgrounded" was a virtual rolling museum. I remember in 1971 seeing Q stock (I think) from the... -
JJontyMort replied to the thread Elizabeth Line and some additional bits about Transport for London.Yes, the 1938 stock lasted until 2019. They‘re now using ex-District Line D78 stock, which is hardly in the first flush of youth (early...
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JJontyMort reacted to cirdan's post in the thread Elizabeth Line and some additional bits about Transport for London with Like.
When I was a kid in the 1970s and 1980s, the 1938 stock was still running and I used to love riding it whenever we visited London. The...
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JJontyMort replied to the thread Elizabeth Line and some additional bits about Transport for London.Yes, you know you’re getting on a bit when the “new” stock is 50 years old. As a 13-year-old in 1970, coming in from the north-west on...
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JJontyMort reacted to Deni's post in the thread Elizabeth Line and some additional bits about Transport for London with Like.
I've heard some people are wondering if the Northern Line may eventually rebrand as separate lines.
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JJontyMort replied to the thread Elizabeth Line and some additional bits about Transport for London.The preferred route is safeguarded, but the money isn’t. They’re saying 2030s.
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JJontyMort replied to the thread Elizabeth Line and some additional bits about Transport for London.It’s more of an extension of the Charing Cross branch than a stand-alone branch. Kennington has full grade-separation with four...
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JJontyMort replied to the thread Elizabeth Line and some additional bits about Transport for London.Funnily enough, London *has* recently had an extension. The Northern Line (Charing Cross branch) was extended last year from Stockwell...
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JJontyMort reacted to Devil's Advocate's post in the thread Elizabeth Line and some additional bits about Transport for London with Like.
Looks like gauge and signaling would work but fire suppression and emergency disembarkation would not pass? Nothing in those movies...
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JJontyMort replied to the thread Elizabeth Line and some additional bits about Transport for London.Yes, HS-1 is GB+ - and the Channel Tunnel itself is even bigger.** The constraint on running duplex TGVs from Paris to London is the...
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JJontyMort replied to the thread Elizabeth Line and some additional bits about Transport for London.Indeed, the point being that double-deckers have never been viable in Britain, because of the restricted loading gauge. Every so often...
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JJontyMort reacted to jis's post in the thread Elizabeth Line and some additional bits about Transport for London with Like.
One of the various British main line loading gauges I would presume since AFAIK Class 345s have standard main line static height and...
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JJontyMort replied to the thread Elizabeth Line and some additional bits about Transport for London.It’s standard GB loading gauge - if there is such a thing. But in particular the trains run on main lines west of Paddington and east of...
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JJontyMort replied to the thread Elizabeth Line and some additional bits about Transport for London.Yes, but in the Metropolitan/Chiltern case it’s not so much Underground on mainline tracks as the other way round. The Met had got its...
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