Metropol

Aston wrote:

time warp wrote:

Hymagumba wrote:Also what is this nonsense I hear about changing the buttons to open the doors? It's no fun if they're *easy* to use.

Those buttons are so pointless - perhaps that should go for me in the "Things That Annoy You" thread...

Yeah, some of them do work, but the ones on the Central Line deffo don't...

I always laugh when I see frustrated people trying to use them

Wrong system, we're talking about T&W Metro.

Aston wrote:

time warp wrote:

Hymagumba wrote:Also what is this nonsense I hear about changing the buttons to open the doors? It's no fun if they're *easy* to use.

Those buttons are so pointless - perhaps that should go for me in the "Things That Annoy You" thread...

Yeah, some of them do work, but the ones on the Central Line deffo don't...

I always laugh when I see frustrated people trying to use them

No... it's the Metro that Hyma's on about. You have to push the buttons on there to open the doors.

Fireboy wrote:

Aston wrote:

time warp wrote: Those buttons are so pointless - perhaps that should go for me in the "Things That Annoy You" thread...

Yeah, some of them do work, but the ones on the Central Line deffo don't...

I always laugh when I see frustrated people trying to use them

No... it's the Metro that Hyma's on about. You have to push the buttons on there to open the doors.

Well this IS the London Underground thread!

I was talking about the buttons on the central line trains. The only time I've seen them work was at one outdoor station in the rain!

Andrew wrote:Do they still have them ones anywhere on the network that had the yellow, brown & black seating? Also, the ones with the hanging balls and the plain silver exterior?

You're thinking of the District Line there. Thankfully the ghastly yellow/orange/brown/black rectangles design, also featured on London Buses' old MCW Metrobuses, has been consigned to history, replaced by some equally ghastly design. The exterior is still bare metal. However, the D-stock refurbishment programme - the interior results of which are shown in the picture at the start of this thread - finally sees the exterior painted in LUL's standard blue, white and red livery.

Other features of this refurbishment are orange electronic destination boards at the front and on the sides of the trains, and low-situated passenger alarms, placed conveniently for small children to yank.

BBC LDN wrote:You're thinking of the District Line there. Thankfully the ghastly yellow/orange/brown/black rectangles design, also featured on London Buses' old MCW Metrobuses, has been consigned to history, replaced by some equally ghastly design. The exterior is still bare metal. However, the D-stock refurbishment programme - the interior results of which are shown in the picture at the start of this thread - finally sees the exterior painted in LUL's standard blue, white and red livery.

Other features of this refurbishment are orange electronic destination boards at the front and on the sides of the trains, and low-situated passenger alarms, placed conveniently for small children to yank.

You see, this is what I mean about everyone having their own facts about the tube...

How, for example, LDN do you know that the trains are even called "D-stock"? I always thought it odd how they were just a dirty grey colour when the rest of the underground is painted properly...

Random tube fact: did you know that Central Line trains don't require drivers? The whole line is compluterised and can be operated automatically. However, passengers disliked the idea so much that drivers are used on all trains.

Aston wrote: Random tube fact: did you know that Central Line trains don't require drivers? The whole line is compluterised and can be operated automatically. However, passengers disliked the idea so much that drivers are used on all trains.

I know the DLR uses this system. I almost freaked out the first time I was on one of those trains... the driver just locked the controls and walked away.

Aston wrote:You see, this is what I mean about everyone having their own facts about the tube...

How, for example, LDN do you know that the trains are even called "D-stock"? I always thought it odd how they were just a dirty grey colour when the rest of the underground is painted properly...

I live in Richmond-upon-Thames in southwest London, which is one of the termini of the District Line, and was also where they showed off the first refurbished train when they did a dry run. I read an article about it in the local paper, where they mentioned that it was called "D-stock".

And that "dirty grey colour" is just bare unpainted metal; it's not actually been painted dirty grey.

so they save the money they spent doing out the inside by not bothering with the outside? fair enough

Hymagumba wrote:so they save the money they spent doing out the inside by not bothering with the outside? fair enough

Someone's not been reading carefully. As I said before, the refurbished trains have been painted in London Underground's standard blue, white and red livery.

Aston wrote:

Does anyone know if this is more than a prototype - are these going to be rolled across the fleet?

IIRC There's only 1 of them on the District Line, and there is only 1 carriage of them...the adjacent carriages have the same colour scheme (Circle-Line-esque) but old interior, and all the others in that train are the old carriage and interior.

BBC LDN wrote:Someone's not been reading carefully. As I said before, the refurbished trains have been painted in London Underground's standard blue, white and red livery.

*squits* oh so you did. I must have been distracted by the m&s jammie dodgers I was shoving into my face at the time