Another S stock....(arrivals)

Some of us always said they would...

I think you'll find that they're called 'transport enthusiasts'.

Actually, I think it's a better term, as I like lots of geeky things about trains, but couldn't care less about cab numbers, so it's a more effective catch-all for the likes of us.

re" transport enthusiasts" the latest b-----kspeak V'e heard is "Facilities Manager" previously known as a "Janitor"

Glom; nice use of cunning, a most underrated and impressive trait. I must say I would quite like to use such cunning to have a ride but I rarely traverse my 'home' line these days. I can only imagine that looking down the length of the train must be something like looking into pepertuity. I remember going on a 3-car 378 when they were new; that was wierd enough, the other night I was travelling late and the view looking straight down the empty 4-car seems impossibly long.

'Transport enthusiast' may or may not be classed as total BS-speak but to be honest my main gripe with it is that it could be (in my case, is) wildly inaccurate. Surely I'm not alone in having an interest in various railway-related things, but not 'transport' as such?? There's a whole lot to do with transport which I've got NO interest in whatsoever, as well as avoiding if at all possible!

I figured as much about the tunnel, but it still looked cool emerging at a crawl from it.

It was impressive to look down an improbably long length in both directions. It's good to have a train that seems logically configured. I never understood the value in having driver cabs being redundant in the middle of a trainset. It looks cobbled together aswell. Not now though. Free movement through eight carriages. We could start doing relativity experiments.

Not so much anymore. I've seen a 92ts formed DM-UNDM-UNDM-UNDM-UNDM-DM-UNDM-DM. As the 92ts is 2 car units I would assume they are classified UNDM, not NDM. Trying to remember if that was the one I got out to West Ruislip or Epping now.

A few surplus driving cabs give a bit of flexibility though - that's why there are double ended D stock, 73 stock etc. Otherwise, if you more east end units out of service than west, the west end units can't be used.

For A stock, the shuttle and the east London line needed 4car sets, and they were interchangeable with the rest of the fleet

Oh!

And there was me thinking you had turned over a new leaf and were actually embracing the new stock.

We don't have room for more than 1 train to be out and about during the day, until such times as we can use them for proper booked services.

Of course, that day got a little further over the last few nights, with a few extra miles "tested" during engineering hours ;D

How many units are expected to be delivered by the time normal services can be run with S stock?

You make a good comparison with the 378 suspension. I was also on a capitalstar this Wednesday, and the suspension is vey good indeed, especially compared to the S stock.

I have no trouble moving through an A stock train, it simply requires a handle to be pulled down and a door pulled open like in most buildings.

Don't think the 378 wheels are smaller. The S stock wheels are 700mm dia, same as the 92ts.

It's only dangerous in a health and safety state!

50 years ago was no less dangerous than now and I doubt they had loads of warning signs to stop people those days.

A choice of 4 coaches is fine by me, I'm not that fussy.