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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2006 13:30:54 GMT
Do these numbers mean anything to anyone I was on my break at Ealing Broadway today, sitting on the District Line platform 8, and a D stock pulled in. My first initial thoughts were "ooo, its a refurb, I'll go sit in it for the remaining 5 mins of my break! ;D", however, slowly it came trundling in and the other half was a un-refurbished D! I had a quick look inside, from the outside, and the refurb part (18008/17008/?008) seemed to only be part done, minus all the dot matrixes and all the fancy bits. The other half (17075/7075/8075) was un-refurbed and, like the refurb, had seats and god knows what, pulled up or missing. There seemed to be no doors between the carriages, loads of equipment, power cables running through the whole thing, and loads of various people with hi-vis', in BOTH cabs at the same time. It came in for about 1 minute and went straight off. At this point I hadn't a clue what it was. However, on my way back leaving Hammersmith on the Piccadilly, it quickly pulled in on platform 1, stopped and went off again. As it left, I saw cameras hanging off the back of it! So is this maybe how they film the DEV's, or am I completely barking up the wrong tree!?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2006 14:29:12 GMT
7008/17008/8008 is the pre-refurb unit, which has been mentioned on this forum many times! It has still yet to undergo the proper refurb treatment.
I can only assume that the train must have been on test, with seats up and cables running around. It could have been anything really, but maybe a driver has reported a safety-critical failure with the train (ie a door irregularity) which is taken very seriously. Alternatively, and more likely, is that the train had been set up to be a track recording vehicle of some type going by your comments about cameras being fitted.
Hopefully one of my more enlightened colleagues will be able to shed more light rather than my wild guessing! ;D
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2006 14:56:16 GMT
i saw it today at earls court about 2 ish it had 2 cameras on the east end DM (the non-painted end)
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Post by trainopd78 on Jun 14, 2006 16:32:28 GMT
It was the AVI train. Drove past it myself earlier this morning.
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Post by Chris M on Jun 14, 2006 18:18:06 GMT
What does AVI stand for in this context? I'm presuming its not Anti-viral Injection or the windows AVI format...
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Post by Colin on Jun 15, 2006 2:37:43 GMT
Auto Video Inspection - not DEV stuff, but track related stuff.
Why use a D stock though?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2006 17:09:38 GMT
Same formation was there again this morning as I pulled in for work at Ealing Broadway (around 6.40am), but a passenger customer service this time ;D Does anyone know more about this?
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Post by trainopd78 on Jun 15, 2006 18:34:05 GMT
They often use a train of D stock to form this AVI train. Staff members would have notice a warning in the traffic circular and the bright light from under the train isn't arcing but bright lighting from underneath.
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Post by Dstock7080 on Jun 15, 2006 18:58:21 GMT
It was in service as train 15 this morning.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2006 19:08:19 GMT
They often use a train of D stock to form this AVI train. Staff members would have notice a warning in the traffic circular and the bright light from under the train isn't arcing but bright lighting from underneath. Yes noticed the bright lighting!
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