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Yeah, up until about 2003, you could check in your bags at Paddington and not see them again until you landed at the other end of your flight - quite convenient really. They used to go down to Heathrow in bulk in the luggage space in the class 322 HeX trains and be loaded straight into the...

Yeah, very interesting! I am not a railway engineer myself but have some background in electrical engineering, and I can see the benefits of controlling EMF leakage by having current flow in a well insulated return conductor instead of in an unshielded third rail. Could play havoc on anything...

Given we are likely to see a change of government within six weeks, I imagine that once they settle in, we may find some of these projects get a second chance if the economy is looking alright over the next couple years.

This is a good way of explaining it. To put it in slightly more technical terms, the induced current in the secondary winding of the booster transformer creates a potential difference that allows the return current from the rails to flow through the secondary winding into the return conductor...

As I understood it, 33 trains was the original order to replace the B9Xs/B2Ks, then 10 trains were ordered for network growth, and 11 more were funded through the Government’s Housing Infrastructure Fund but that wasn't for Thamesmead, it was for extra capacity in the Thames Wharf area. ICBW but...

I think I'd rather go frequency over train length, personally speaking. DLR being an isolated system with mostly flying junctions and system-wide CBTC control makes that a much easier proposition than the main lines. Perhaps at some point in the next decade when the next DLR extension finds...

Lol fair point, it's a relatively well known destination at least.

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Anecdotally the New Cross trains are very obviously the least used of the four services, but I figure there might be more passengers once the new housing developments are well underway at Surrey Quays, since the Northbounds from New Cross will present themselves there mostly empty in the...

Given the DLUHC funds also have a specific per-project approval process I'm sure central government are quite alright with this use of money to massively enhance passenger rail capacity in the area where 14,000 more homes are being built.

The B07s can also be run in twos instead of threes if you wanted to do a refurbishment programme, given there are a lot of them running around in twos at the moment on many DLR routes this wouldn't represent much if any of a reduction in service vs today especially when the B23s have landed.

TfL rail was supposed to be a far more temporary brand that it eventually ended up being, given the Elizabeth Line was supposed to open in 2018.

From a post on another place:

There's no reason why these would have to run using 378s or 710s, especially given London Bridge post-rebuild can cope with 10 or 12 cars trains in all of its terminal platforms. The ELL capacity upgrade originates long before the pandemic, the idea is to raise the core frequency from 16tph to...

When do you think the 710/3s are likely to fully move to the NLL?

You get "LNER Azuma service to ..." at Kings Cross as well. I guess branded train types to be the belle du jour for the TOCs. Still whatever the name is, good to see them out and about finally.

I've read various reports that a clever suspension design is supposed to reduce it.

Yeah, fixed it. Ta.

Indeed, I was just observing that TfL don't seem to think there's any need for transverse seating for journeys of less than an hour, as for whether that meets with the approval of everyone, well clearly not, but if the compromise is having only longitudinal seating so there's enough floor space...

Even if the Bakerloo went back to Watford, the journey time would still be well under that from the outer parts of the Central, District or Piccadilly Lines which are 100% longitudinal.