"S R" wrote in message
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Two questions regarding the deployment of these new 5-car trains:

1) are there routes on which they will completely replace the Class 465
and
466s?

2) if so, for those routes where the platform length limits trains to
eight
carriages, will all current 6- and 8-car trains be replaced by 5-car
trains,
or can they operate 10-car trains where doors on the two rearmost
carriages
won't open at all stations?

AIUI they will operate on Charing Cross and Cannon Street services. All
platforms on these routes were extended to take 10-car trains in the 1950s,
and many were further extended to 12-car length in the abortive scheme of
the early 1990s. They will not normally operate on Victoria/Blackfriars
routes, where many suburban platforms can still only take 8-car trains.
There won't be enough 376s to displace Networkers completely from any route.

Peter