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Title: Some light mental exercise for a wet Thursday morning Post by: CyclingSid on February 27, 2020, 07:34:36 Another test of the endless knowledge of the members of the forum.
In a BBC News picture feature there is photograph of Harpur Hill, Derbyshire (home of HSE test labs?) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-51615267 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-51615267) What is the train in the picture. I don't know the answer, but would get the impression that it is former Tube stock? Title: Re: Some light mental exercise for a wet Thursday morning Post by: Worcester_Passenger on February 27, 2020, 08:03:57 Wikipedia says
Quote The Health and Safety Executive's laboratory is also situated not far from Harpur Hill. A railway has been constructed with old Jubilee Line, London Underground trains that were used to reconstruct the 7/7 London Tube bombings. When the red flag is flying at the laboratory, an explosion is imminent. Title: Re: Some light mental exercise for a wet Thursday morning Post by: paul7575 on February 27, 2020, 12:11:54 In addition to the above, it’s the short lived ‘83 stock’, removed from service after a relatively short life, IIRC because they had very long dwell times because of single leaf pocket doors (a bit like D stock aka 230s).
I wonder if they were suitably representative for the trials as almost all tube stock then and now had/has double sliding doors? Paul This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |