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That makes it sound as if they'd been automated right from 1907, which most definitely isn't the case – on most line automation only happened very recently. (Th
by iggldiggl 2y ago
That makes it sound as if they'd been automated right from 1907, which most definitely isn't the case – on most line automation only happened very recently. (The Victoria Line was automated right from its opening in 1968, then the Central line was automated in the 90s, the Jubilee and Northern lines in the 2010s and the subsurface network is currently under way.)
Also if we want to quibble, at least a few sections of the Bakerloo and Piccadilly lines (which are still completely manually driven) were opened after 1906.
- lmm 2y ago> That makes it sound as if they'd been automated right from 1907, which most definitely isn't the case From 1907 onwards every newly built line was automated from opening (though indeed extensions or "new" lines made by splitting an existing line were sometimes manually driven).
- iggldiggl 2y agoEven that is a bit disingenuous when you consider the very minimal number of completely new lines that have been built since 1906 – basically only the Victoria line in 1968 and (depending on whether you only count real tube lines or not) the DLR in 1987. (The Jubilee line in 1979 – which started out being manually driven – wouldn't count according to your criteria, because part of it was "made by splitting an existing line", and apart from being heavy rail, arguably Crossrail could be argued to be an extension, too, even though it does operate automatically on the new-built bits, i.e. the central section plus the Abbey Wood branch.)