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[email protected] · December 19th 14, 10:35 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 09:01:10 -0600
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On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 05:37:22 -0600
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Still, at least looking at pictures of the trains someone had enough
sense to specify 3 sets of doors per carraige, unlike the dorks who
specified the 378s on the Overground.

They followed the design of the 376s of course, though they were 5-car
from the start.

The point was that no-one foresaw how busy London Overground would
become.
Well they should have done really. A short cut from north london to
canary wharf (almost) and south of the river via the up and coming
areas of Hoxton and Shoreditch I would have thought would be a dead
cert for packed trains.

You have obviously missed your vocation as a seer.

Oh come on, this is a "new" metro line in London linking to a huge
business district, not some speculative tram system in a midlands town.
Anyone who didn't see it coming was frankly an idiot.

In your view with hindsight. No-one previously thought of Shoreditch as
"linking to a huge business district".

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Colin Rosenstiel