05-05-2018, 11:07 AM
(05-05-2018, 09:38 AM)Canard Wrote: The rumour I heard was that the 7th car had to be shorter to fit on the current platforms. ie, adding a 7th car of the current design would mean the train wouldn’t fit on the platform.
Indeed, there is no plan to extend the Toronto subway platform length, and doing so is almost certainly completely infeasible.
But with precise positioning the trains could be somewhat longer. I’m not entirely clear on exactly how much longer. It seems to me that the ends of the train could be in the tunnel, as long as all the doors are on the platform, but maybe that’s going too far. I suspect there might be a small number of locations where the exact position of a signal needs to be moved a little bit.