The Victoria line only has one type of rolling stock running on it. You seem to forget that the lines we're talking about have to be able to accommodate a wide range of rolling stock, including freight movements. The problem with making the train fit the existing platforms is probably down to the problem that that would mean the train dimensions would exceed the loading gauge.well yes, but only up to as point. It's necessary to step down from existing train services to the platform because... well because the train was built that way. For some reason that's a bit mystifying the size of the step is occasionally bigger than usual and they have an announcement to warn us. Doubtless the Victorians can be blamed, but why the solution is an announcement rather than some civil engineering is anyone's guess. I've been vaguely puzzled about this for years.
It all seems most peculiar to me, and they probably had to write a special exemption into the DDA to make it legal.
But here is an opportunity to organise the new railway so that there is no step by, eg, building the train to fit the existing platforms and if there's a discrepancy at some station to make the platform fit the train (as they did on the Victoria line a few years ago). Having designed the train around the existing stations they can then design the new stations around the train.
On the same theme I wonder about the mind the gag gap. It's inevitable on platforms built on a curve, but not all of them are, some are straight. So why not move the rails over a few inches, why insist people have to jump?
It's not a Tube line. How many more times?such a fucking stupid name for a tube line. How many fucking things are we going to name after this hag? we got elizabeth land somewhere in Antarctica, elizabeth tower, 2 x navy destroyers called elizabeth and now elizabeth line?
I think a lot of it is marketing. It may not be a tube line, but giving it the trappings of one enables property developers to pretend that the places they've been building gated communities on for the last few years in anticipation of its arrival are on the tube, in other words part of London. If you live there you're not a commuter, you're living in London - with the attendant price premium.
Because it's a National Rail line. It's nothing to do with the Tube.
Well it's not 'nothing to do with the tube'. That's just silly talk. You will be able to get on a tube train, change underground to a crossrail train, change back to another tube train while still underground all on the same oyster card and it'll be run by TFL. Sounds like a tube train to me.
Of course it's not "silly talk"; it's a fact. I can only assume you aren't from London otherwise you would understand the difference. You can already use Oyster on lots of services which aren't the Tube, and TfL run other services which aren't the Tube.
These are technicalities, though, surely. The Overground network isn't officially the tube, but most people seem to treat it as such, even calling overground stations tube stations. Hackney/Dalston people have definitely taken to calling the Overground the tube. And why not? Seems pretty functionally similar.
I think you'll find I am from London unlike you, carrot cruncher. TFL may give it a capital letter these days but 'the tube' originates as a nickname for London's underground trains dating from before they were nationalised and run as a single entity anyway. Like most Londoners I don't give a shit who sweeps the tracks. If it goes in a tunnel and links up with all the other underground trains it's going to get called the tube. Regardless of the opinions of banjo plucking bumpkins from the backwoods of Kent, no matter how locomotive obsessed.
So Thameslink is "the tube" too is it?
Romford's well worth a visit.
Humorous misleading advice for American tourists thread is that way >>>Romford's well worth a visit.
not at all convinced about that. For a start nobody ever said Millenium Dome except on the radio and equally no-one has ever called it the O2 in my presence. It's just the dome.
