Thread: Two-thirds of DLR fleet to be replaced
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Old May 19th 17, 01:56 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Two-thirds of DLR fleet to be replaced
On Fri, 19 May 2017 12:51:28 +0000 (UTC), d wrote:

On Fri, 19 May 2017 13:43:15 +0100
" wrote:
Do you think that Vivarail might be interested in them? Or do we need to
see how the 230s first work out before they can consider that?

It took enough work to get the D stock up to mainline crash worthiness. They'd
probably have to graft half a tank onto the front of the DLR stock to manage
that

Of course it does beg the question of why tube stock has such poor crash
resistence especially given that surface stock particularly on the met line
works at speeds little different from outer urban mainline services.

Primarily, because it doesn't mix with freight trains. If it has a
collision at speed, which is highly unlikely because of the train stop
protection, it will probably be with another identical train.
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