New Trains for Old
I came back yesterday on the Victoria Line to Blackhorse Road. As the first train stopped at Seven Sisters, this meant I had to change trains, but I got a unique comparison between the original trains built for the line in 1967 and the new 2009 stock coming into use.
From Highbury and Islington, I used one of the new trains to Seven Sisters.
New Trains on the Victoria Line
And then it was one of the regular trains to Blackhorse Road.
In some ways, it is a tribute to the 1967 trains, that they stand up well in the comparison. But they feel slower and the ride is better in the new ones. The aisle is wider too, but then they have less seats to be able to increase capacity over the old trains.
Whether passengers will like to stand so much is open to question!
But the trains will be faster and there are more of them.
If I have one gripe it is that the trains do not have the traditional London Underground door plate that shows when the train was built.
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