New trains

Posted by Tim Fletcher on January 23, 2019 at 11:19am in Traffic, roads, public transport

This YouTube video from Geoff Marshall (of All the Stations fame) might be of interest if you travel from Ally Pally station.

https://youtu.be/l5p0oOOR2mY

It looks like our new trans are finally on their way.

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Admin March 17, 2019 at 7:25am

New trains delayed due to design blunder

From HarringayOnline:

Why aren't the nice shiny new Class 717 trains running on the Great Northern line yet? Why are they sitting on the sidings in Ferme Park and we're all still clunkily riding on the oldest trains in Britain?? Because yet another time a design blunder has "emerged". This time it's the cabs - the layout dangerously blocks the drivers' view of some signals on the line.

At least according to this.

£200million train cab where drivers can't see out the window

A £200 million train fleet has hit the buffers meaning passengers on the Great Northern line are losing out due to a design flaw. Train drivers are u…

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