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[email protected] · March 28th 18, 04:52 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On Wed, 28 Mar 2018 16:00:23 +0100
Basil Jet wrote:
On 2018\03\28 15:26, wrote:
On Wed, 28 Mar 2018 04:36:25 -0700 (PDT)
Paul Corfield wrote:
On Wednesday, 28 March 2018 12:08:38 UTC+1, wrote:
I used the moorgate line today. Still no sign of the 700s down there, jus=
t
the usual 313s which don't look like they've had any TLC for a long time
now. Are the 700s still waiting approval to run down there or do great no=
rthern
want to use the 700s on just the express routes initiallt?

700s will not run to Moorgate as they are too long and do not have cab door=
s for tunnel evacuation. GTR ordered a variant called the 717 which will re=
place the 313s. This are 6 cars long and do have centre cab doors. The fir=

One has to wonder why they didn't just specify centre cab doors for all of
them.

Because then you would have complained that the 8- and 12-car trains had
wasted money on gangway doors which only the 6-car trains needed.

So you think fleet interoperatibility is a bad thing then? Marshalling train
lengths was a solved problem in the 19th century.