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Post by Chris W on Jul 2, 2006 10:01:21 GMT
ALERT Silly Question from an Admin ALERT  Gents & Lady I was working overtime in one of my employers West End offices yesterday, and whilst on the way home traveled from Green Park to Waterloo on the JL. I traveled in one of the new cars built last year & inserted Xmas last year (black non-slip flooring etc etc), but noted that the year on the foot plate by the double doors states 'Alstom 1996'. I was always under the impression that the year stamp on these plates were the year of manufacture, rather than the type of stock - the old CO-CP's stated 1938, the 'A' stock states 1960, 61 & 62 depending on year of manufacture - the only anomaly to my knowledge was the 'D' & 83 ts, having no double doors has no year stamp at all. Can anyone throw any light on this??  
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2006 10:11:16 GMT
ALERT Silly Question from an Admin ALERT Gents & Lady I was working overtime in one of my employers West End offices yesterday, and whilst on the way home traveled from Green Park to Waterloo on the JL. I traveled in one of the new cars built last year & inserted Xmas last year (black non-slip flooring etc etc), but noted that the year on the foot plate by the double doors states 'Alstom 1996'. I was always under the impression that the year stamp on these plates were the year of manufacture, rather than the type of stock - the old CO-CP's stated 1938, the 'A' stock states 1960, 61 & 62 depending on year of manufacture - the only anomaly to my knowledge was the 'D' & 83 ts, having no double doors has no year stamp at all. Can anyone throw any light on this?? The 95s on the Northern have 'Alstom 1995' on the foot plates also. |
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Post by Colin on Jul 2, 2006 11:15:11 GMT
Dates quoted when naming stock is not the year of manufacture, but the year of planned introduction - so having 1996 on cars built in 2005 is not so odd after all ;D ;D |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2006 12:15:46 GMT
The 95s on the Northern have 'Alstom 1995' on the foot plates also. Actually, they have Alsthom 1995... ;D Its the same with the Piccadilly Line ones, they all have Met Cam 1973, but they were refurbished in 1995, AND by a different company (Bombardier Prorail)...  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2006 18:47:57 GMT
The 95s on the Northern have 'Alstom 1995' on the foot plates also. Actually, they have Alsthom 1995... ;D Actually, isn't it Alsthom 1996, IIRC? As a result of having two stocks with 1996, the Northern line stocks were renamed 1995, which is strange considering the 1995s are newer than the 1996s. Would've been more logical to name them the 1997s IMO. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2006 19:33:14 GMT
D'oh, I'm a idiot  ;D Yes, its Alsthom 1996... |
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Post by thc on Jul 22, 2006 15:49:41 GMT
Not in the new cars they don't. It's most definitely written as "Alstom", despite your earlier assertion to the contrary.
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Post by prjb on Jul 22, 2006 22:06:43 GMT
It's always quite interesting to see 'Metro Cammel 1972' on the tread plate of a Vic line train. It always makes me wonder if I ever drove it or operated it as a guard.
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Post by DWS on Aug 4, 2006 11:42:08 GMT
It's always quite interesting to see 'Metro Cammel 1972' on the tread plate of a Vic line train. It always makes me wonder if I ever drove it or operated it as a guard. The 1996 stock also have Metro Cammel on the tread plate, as well as GEC - Alsthom. |
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