The Elizabeth Line

[Bonefish Blues]

*Dumb question alert*

Are they like the newer tube trains or are they trains like trains, or are they something else, or what, exactly?

 

[Accy cyclist]

to 17 minutes

Mmm, about the same time as it takes the 4 mile bus journey from 'snuffy Arrod' to Accrington bus depot.🤔

 

[Cycleops]

Mmm, about the same time as it takes the 4 mile bus journey from 'snuffy Arrod' to Accrington bus depot.🤔

Don’t worry Accy, Boris has got Accrington next on the list for ‘levelling up’.

 

[fossyant]

Don’t worry Accy, Boris has got Accrington next on the list for ‘levelling up’.

Yup he'll be levelling Accrington.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Never heard of it, must be part of the elitist culture

Any train that has London as a terminus tends to be fairly regular and modernish stock. Anything east west not involving London is rubbish.

You missed North!

I've never heard of this before, but no doubt I've paid for some of it.

 

[Mike_P]

*Dumb question alert*

Are they like the newer tube trains or are they trains like trains, or are they something else, or what, exactly?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_345

 

[matticus]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_345

Thanks.

That has reminded me of the problem with these things:
"Like other contemporary commuter rolling stock orders, the trains are open gangway, with no doors between carriages. There are no toilets of any type on these trains."
Fine for a 10-20min tube journey - not so great for an hour. And of course there is no warning of this "feature" as you wait at Ealing Broadway, assuming it's just a normal train 🤦‍♀️
With "open gangway", they'd only need one per train. <sigh>

 

[Cycleops]

*Dumb question alert*

Are they like the newer tube trains or are they trains like trains, or are they something else, or what, exactly?

I'd hope they are driverless like the DLR so those RMT barstewards won't be able to hold people to random.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I'd hope they are driverless like the DLR

They are NOTHING like the DLR.
The DLR is an amusing toy railway. These are proper trains.

 

[Roseland triker]

Luckily I will never use it.
Last time I was on the tube must be 40years ago.....at least......

 

[Cycleops]

They are NOTHING like the DLR.
The DLR is an amusing toy railway. These are proper trains.

Yeahbut with the DLR you can sit at the front, strap your pretend train cab control panel in and pretend to be the driver.
I wonder if impersonating a train driver is an offence?

 

[matticus]

This thread has a wonderfully eclectic Similar Threads:

 

[nickyboy]

I will no doubt use it when I am in London

However, I wish the money had been spent in regions of the UK which have vastly lower levels of per capita public transport spending

It was £1,476 in London and £785 in SE England. It was £477 in my region

 

[figbat]

They are NOTHING like the DLR.
The DLR is an amusing toy railway. These are proper trains.

One benefit for me is that on the rare occasion I need to get to Canary Wharf or Custom House I can do it directly from Paddington (and ultimately even from Reading) without having to change to the DLR.

 

[Dogtrousers]

One benefit for me is that on the rare occasion I need to get to Canary Wharf or Custom House I can do it directly from Paddington (and ultimately even from Reading) without having to change to the DLR.

But on the downside, you won't be able to pretend to be the driver.