Brimstone wrote:
Aidan Stanger wrote:

Boltar wrote:


There was a short piece on BBC london news on TV last night about
the new vic line trains and an interview with some bod at (I
think) Bombardier. Anyway , turns out that it looks like the
prototypes at least will have less seating (quelle surprise) and
a lot of what seating is left will be flip up so theres room for
all these mythical wheelchair bound passengers we keep hearing
about but no one has ever actually seen.

But how does this new train design compare to other (relatively)
recent tube train designs? Have they overcome the following three
design flaws:

Floor too high?
Wasted space between seats and wall?
End connection not safe to use while train is moving?


The end connection will never be safe to use while the train is moving,
simply because the ends of the cars do not remain in alignment. Watch them
going round bends, in some cases the door on the adjacent car is completely
obscured.

However, the new subsurface stock will (apparently) be truly
articulated. I'm not sure why this can be done on the SSL stock and not
the Victoria stock (for which it was originally proposed).

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Dave Arquati
Imperial College, SW7
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London