In article , Richard J. wrote:
Boltar wrote:
Personally I'd miss the 92 stock too... I like the large window
area which gives a nice airy feeling.

i.e. acts like a mobile greenhouse in summer (modern buses suffer too from
this obsession with large areas of glass and no aircon).

Given how relatively cool summers here are[1], I hardly think air
conditioning is a necessity, but I really can't figure out why modern
buses have almost no ventilation on the upper deck. In this regard,
the Routemasters really are much, much better (at least in the
summer!)


[1] What passes for a heat wave here is just normal summer weather in
Ottawa. When I was growing up there, there was no air
conditioning to be found on buses, but the windows sure opened!


Christopher

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In article ,
(Boltar) wrote:

"Ed Crowley" wrote in message
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They are all the same on the Central line. 95/96 refers to the
Jubilee and Northern lines repectively. I thought the acceleration on
the 95/96s was deliberately slugged in software to allow them to
co-exist with the old stock while they were being phased in.

Thats what everybody said (on here) but it seems they're genuinely
underpowered. Certainly going up the hill from from highgate to east
finchley they seem to me slower than the stock they replaced but that
could just be psychological I guess because of less motor noise.

Figures. Only the 92 stock has all axles motored. 95/96 stock has one
unpowered car in three. The 96 stock will be worse when extended to 7 cars
too, I suppose.

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