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USA Rail strike?
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Yes, it is. It was Tuesday, Thursday (today), and Saturday. Obvious that caused - and was designed to cause - seven days’ chaos for the...
Jun 23, 2022
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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...
Jun 15, 2022
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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...
Jun 15, 2022
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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...
Jun 15, 2022
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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...
Jun 14, 2022
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I've heard some people are wondering if the Northern Line may eventually rebrand as separate lines.
Jun 4, 2022
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The preferred route is safeguarded, but the money isn’t. They’re saying 2030s.
Jun 4, 2022
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It’s more of an extension of the Charing Cross branch than a stand-alone branch. Kennington has full grade-separation with four...
Jun 4, 2022
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Funnily enough, London *has* recently had an extension. The Northern Line (Charing Cross branch) was extended last year from Stockwell...
Jun 3, 2022
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Looks like gauge and signaling would work but fire suppression and emergency disembarkation would not pass? Nothing in those movies...
Jun 3, 2022
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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...
Jun 2, 2022
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Indeed, the point being that double-deckers have never been viable in Britain, because of the restricted loading gauge. Every so often...
Jun 2, 2022
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One of the various British main line loading gauges I would presume since AFAIK Class 345s have standard main line static height and...
Jun 2, 2022
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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...
Jun 2, 2022
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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...
Jun 2, 2022
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