"bob" wrote in message

On Dec 14, 2:45 pm, G1206 wrote:
This afternoon at 12:30 whilst travelling on the Jubilee Line towards
Stratford, I passed a 6 car train of DLR B07 stock being tested on
the new DLR route between Canning Town and Stratford. The train was
being driven in manual mode at possibly no faster than 5mph.

By 6 car do you mean 6 articulated sets or 3 articulated sets? Most
discussion I have read about the recent exercise to increaes capacity
has refered to "3 car trains" meaning 3 articulated sets, but given
that longer trains are generally not run, 6 articulated sets seems a
little odd to me (but 3 articulated sets entirely to be expected).
Oddly, while people seem happy to generally talk about an artiuclated
set of DLR stock as a single car, they seem less willing to describe
Eurostar as 2 power cars and 2 passenger cars.

Yes, I constantly notice the same anomaly. In E* terms, the DLR will
have six-car trains, but they're actually three articulated vehicles,
each consisting of two segments. Of course, as a passenger, you're more
aware of passing between cars on an E* train than you are when moving
between the two halves of a DLR vehicle.