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Colin Rosenstiel · December 24th 07, 12:04 AM posted to uk.transport.london

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,
(Standing at HN28 signal) wrote:

On 24 Dec, 00:06, "Peter Corser"
wrote:
alex_t wrote:
Hopefully they can be used to
suppliment the rubbish C Stock on the Circle line!!

I thought that A stock cannot run over entire Inner Circle?

HI Guys

The restriction used to be on the western part of the Circle (Praed
Street Jcn to High St Ken. IIRC) where A stock was only allowed to
run empty and there were severe restrictions on what it could pass
on the opposite road (e.g. A stock was banned from passing another
A stock),. *AIUI was virtually impossible to timetable a move in
normal traffic. *It was supposedly a combination of length, static
width (Loading Gauge problems), end overthrow and dynamic envelope.

I don't know if the restrictions are still in place, but am not
aware (cannot remember) of any major work which would have alleviated

the problem.

Thanks for correcting me on A Stock width restrictions!
So there are no immediate plans for the spare stock then?! (Oh and yes
I am painfully aware the A60s are due to go soon, a shame as they are
still a great piece of kit)

A stock cars are 137 mm longer than C stock driving cars and 1227 mm
longer than C stock trailer cars. They are 26 mm wider and pretty well
the same height.

If the air metacone suspension had survived the C stock refurbishment I
would expect more dynamic envelope issues there than with A stock. Brian
Hardy says it was replaced by a rubber blob system like on the D stock so
maybe that won't be an issue now.

By the time it is withdrawn, much of the A stock will be 50 years old, a
recent record in London.

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Colin Rosenstiel

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