New DLR trains

Anyone been on them yet? Have they managed to solve the side to side
wobbling?

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"Mizter T" <mizter.t@> wrote in message
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The Beckton Depot has been extended to provide space to stable these
trains - this has taken the form of new outdoor sidings. I dunno if
the DLR bought lots of land when the Beckton depot was constructed or
acquired more at a later stage, but it was all wasteland around there
(and some of still is) - of course in pre-natural gas days it was all
a massive gasworks (which later, in a dilapidated state, provided a
backdrop for one of Mr Kubrick's moving pictures).

Which Kubrick film?

On Sep 28, 7:56 pm, mudch...@ wrote:
> I've only travelled on one from Mudchute to Greenwich so there was
> never much 'wobble' on the stretch anyway. What I can say though is
> that the ride quality is very different. Feels and sounds like you're
> on a completely different transport system!

I've now managed to glimpse a new train, but that's all.

I've noticed how, on the wobblier sections, the shiny surface of the
tracks has a very zigzaggy pattern, and I wonder if the wobbling has
worn a groove in the tracks that the new trains can't help but follow.

And at a tangent, I see that the fork between the North Curve and the
West Curve is now a normal flat junction which is in use, and the
rollercoaster no longer has any track. It has also been severed where
it crosses the tracks towards Poplar.

I still can't quite see where the new track will go. Maybe on lowered
pillars in exactly the same alignment as the rollercoaster, because
there isn't a lot of space.

On Oct 8, 1:53 am, MIG <googles...@doreenbird.co.uk> wrote:
> I still can't quite see where the new track will go. Maybe on lowered
> pillars in exactly the same alignment as the rollercoaster, because
> there isn't a lot of space.

They seem to forever be changing the layout of that piece of the line.
Is this a string of poor decisions being made in the past or is it
just a new director wanting to make his mark?

B2003

Boltar wrote:
> On Oct 8, 1:53 am, MIG <googles...@doreenbird.co.uk> wrote:
>> I still can't quite see where the new track will go. Maybe on lowered
>> pillars in exactly the same alignment as the rollercoaster, because
>> there isn't a lot of space.
>
> They seem to forever be changing the layout of that piece of the line.
> Is this a string of poor decisions being made in the past or is it
> just a new director wanting to make his mark?
>
> B2003
>

Heaven forbid that it might be investment in an improved service to meet
customer demand for more frequent services and longer trains, eh?

Tom

On Oct 8, 12:03 pm, Tom Barry <il...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Heaven forbid that it might be investment in an improved service to meet
> customer demand for more frequent services and longer trains, eh?

So poor decisions made in the past then.

B2003