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Post by Alight on Nov 18, 2013 21:45:04 GMT
On the way home this evening I noticed that the Piccadilly line car I was travelling on had new flooring around the luggage space areas to mark contrast:   |
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Post by jamesb on Nov 18, 2013 22:00:31 GMT
I've seen this as well. have the grip rails always been yellow around the door area? I know that the foot plate outside the door has been painted yellow as well...
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Post by melikepie on Nov 18, 2013 22:23:17 GMT
For many years yes on the poles
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2013 22:41:47 GMT
Units 866+151 (the first refurb BTW).
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Post by domh245 on Nov 18, 2013 22:52:49 GMT
So is the fleet having a "refresh" and if so, is it going on the order in which they were refurbed?
(at least, that is my interpretation of your post)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2013 9:30:27 GMT
The fact that it was refurb Train 1 is, I'm sure, coincidence. It just happened to be 'available' (i.e. out of service!) when they wanted to do the work. This is often the case when something new is started, it's just what's available. Going back many years (and a bit off topic - sorry folks!) many of you will remember the "sunshine window" 1938 Stock car 10306. This wasn't specifically chosen to receive the mods, it just happened to be where it was in Acton Works at the time they wanted a car for the mods - in other words, it could been any car at the end of the day.
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Post by Alight on Nov 20, 2013 17:37:35 GMT
I've had a look at November's 'Underground News' and it looks as though you're right, reganorak, with regards to Train 1 (the first to be refurbished back in 1996) being a coinicidence. However, the recent work is very minor and so I feel it's neither a refurbishment nor a refresh - it is merely the flooring around the doors. According to TfL, the passenger seats are not due to be replaced by 'Barman' moquette any time soon.
Apparently some cab seat covers have been replaced with the new 'Barman' moquette - I'm not sure whether this is going to be fleet-wide or whether it is just ad-hoc replacements in a similar way to the W&C moquette being seen in some D78 cabs
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Post by fish7373 on Nov 29, 2013 15:39:29 GMT
HI all the floors on the 73 t/stock are being replaced by the door ways 866/151 the first train to be done FISH7373
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Post by Jerome H on Nov 29, 2013 23:40:57 GMT
So it seems these trains still have some life left in them.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2013 23:42:22 GMT
So it seems these trains still have some life left in them. Just as well, seeing as the new trains won't arrive for some time! |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2014 21:36:47 GMT
Units 866+151 (the first refurb BTW). Unit 190 was the first refurb (mid 1996) and entered passenger service coupled to a non-refurb unit. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2014 22:12:48 GMT
190 was a "prototype" refurb by Metro Cammell and the production refurbs were nothing like 190. 190 received it's proper (production) refurb later in the programme.
As a prototype refurb 190 ran with suitably modified unit 123.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2014 13:53:06 GMT
190 was a "prototype" refurb... Yes, and the first to undergo a refurbishment procedure. |
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