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On 12/01/2013 20:23, Recliner wrote:
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On 12/01/2013 11:32, Recliner wrote:
On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:09:01 +0000, "Clive D. W. Feather"
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, Recliner wrote:
The 83 stock was designed for the original Jubilee Line,
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But why was the stock simply scrapped, rather than cascaded to another
line, as had been suggested at the time? I thought the mechanical
reliability was a factor.

It may have been, but I believe one reason was that there wasn't
anywhere that it made sense to use it. There was some talk of an Ealing
Broadway to High Street Ken service, but it fell through.

I thought they'd also been considered as a way of boosting the Picc
fleet, running on the Rayners Lane branch, rather than the
luggage-intensive Heathrow route.

Again, though, wouldn't that have presented a problem in tub conditions?

Why? They would have had adequate capacity for that branch, which loads
less heavily than the Heathrow branch.


What about in the middle of London, however? I would also imagine that
people commute into town from Rayners Lane or Uxbridge.

It would have followed the normal Picc line east of Acton Town. As far as
pax were concerned, it would all have been the ordinary Piccadilly Line,
but with the 1983 stock normally confined to the Rayners Lane/Uxbridge
route. Some trains from Rayners Lane might have reversed at Acton Town,
thus giving extra frequency on the branch, without overloading the central
London section. It was all just an idea to boost the Piccadilly line fleet,
now that the Heathrow branch has become so busy.