In message , at 11:57:19 on
Thu, 5 May 2016, Recliner remarked:

"The Invitation to Tender for the trains is expected in early 2015" . Hmm.

Yup, already running about a year late:
https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/pr...ube-for-london

Move on, nothing to see here; just another rail project running over a
year behind schedule.
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Roland Perry

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

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at 11:57:19
on Thu, 5 May 2016, Recliner remarked:

"The Invitation to Tender for the trains is expected in early 2015".
Hmm.

Yup, already running about a year late:

https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/pr...luissues-invit
ation-to-tender-for-design-and-build-of-new-tube-for-london

Move on, nothing to see here; just another rail project running over
a year behind schedule.

To be fair, George Osbourne did take a bit of an axe to the funding.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

On 2016\05\05 10:23, Recliner wrote:

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

What depot is on page 22?

On 2016\05\05 17:15, Basil Jet wrote:
On 2016\05\05 10:23, Recliner wrote:

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

What depot is on page 22?

Got it, it's London Road.