On Thu, 05 May 2016 11:17:44 +0100
Recliner wrote:
On Thu, 5 May 2016 09:59:00 +0000 (UTC), d wrote:

On Thu, 5 May 2016 09:23:35 -0000 (UTC)
Recliner wrote:
Indeed. However I do wonder with low floor tube stock how they're going to
cram in the equipment. Apparently its a bit of a squeeze even now getting
the
stuff in under the floor.

Mainly through having fewer bogies with the articulated trains. The
carriages will have uninterrupted space between the ends.

See http://content.tfl.gov.uk/ntfl-feasibility-report.pdf

Looking at that document it seems more a case of using articulation to allow
walk through carraiges. Certainly in the drawing of the train the floor
doesn't
look any lower than current stock to me.

It's hard to tell. In any case, those are only schematic drawings, but
Siemens explicitly stated that they would deliver a lower floor for
the EVO concept which led to the NTfL. I'm not sure if this is now
required of all the bidders.

http://everything.explained.today/New_Tube_for_London/

Not sure how thats going to work. If you lower the floor you're also going to
have to narrow it as per the S stock it so it doesn't foul the current
platforms whether straight or curved and making the already limited standing
space by the doors on a tube train even narrower is really NOT going to be
popular.

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Spud