Absolutely. They would be wholly unbearable in summer otherwise.
Indeed
The inner part by the perch seat area around the double-doors, the outside still shows the full extent of the window (now masked) but the inside has a small window.
But for daily users it was a wonderful relief.
IIRC it was actually around 2012/2013!
Interesting to see that it has gone for Testing out the Eastern End of the Central Line
Testing has been done across the Line and visiting the two depots.
I hope to see one under Test sometime soon, how often will the testing be and will it more be weekend testing than weekday?
More for the reliability than performance but it does seem to accelerate slightly better.
To be honest they have pretty good braking at present, especially the speed some come into Platforms at on below surface stations like Gants Hill where they come in at full linespeed i believe
post from 2021:
Oddly i have found the large windows arent the main cause of the heat on the Central Line having now returned to commuting on them again between Newbury Park & Stratford for the last 9 odd months, I always find the train far hotter when boarding at Stratford going Home after the trains have been in the hot tunnels, than when i board at Newbury Park going West to work, obviously the tinting of the windows is helping when above ground, but the sole problem for the heat is from the Central London tunnel section which isnt being addressed with a means to remove the heat from the tunnels by maybe extra ventilation as even on cool nights boarding a train just after 11pm and the train is still a sweat box even with cold outside air! So the heat is mostly down to that trapped in the tunnels.
I saw 91001/92176/92054/91201 at Stratford around lunchtime yesterday
A couple of weeks ago I did happen to see the CLIP train come into Newbury Park as I was waiting for a train and saw the second train as Special so waited for it just incase it was it, which it was, I will say one thing, I do not like the new announcement system on it, as its Text to Speech, as I dont get why they are replacing the current ones which are decent announcements to replace with a TTS version. The traction however sounds nice
With CCTV and retractioning it sounds good value to me.
I guess that depends on how long they stay in service for.
This refurbishment programme does suggest the 1992 stock will be in service for at least another decade which sounds about right if the Piccadilly Line stock is introduced from 2025 to 2027 then Bakerloo will hopefully happen either in 2028 or 2029.
Even if funding for an order was forthcoming from the Government tomorrow I can't see them being replaced until the early 2030s given the Piccadilly and Bakerloo are ahead in the queue.
