Yes, I'm working backwards here.

[chess]

Four Observations from the Train Home (written at LLS, waiting for the train to Cressing):

The new trains on the Northern Line are like the Jubilee Line ones, but the displays have lots of white noise and occasionally a line drops out of them; still readable though. Maybe they put the broken ones there.

There is a lady handing out packets of 'Maynards Sours' (sweets, rather ironically) dressed all in bright colours. If I wanted to launch a bioterrorism attack, giving out sweets in Liverpool Street would be a pretty good way of doing it, I think.

The trains on the Metropolitan Line (look newish) have groups of seats facing each other more like a normal train (although they're all grouped, none face to back). They are also purrrple.

For breakfast I had a lovely chocolate and pistachio pastry, quite large (maybe 30cm by 5cm) and quite cheap (£1.20) for train trolley service.

Comments

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

The Northern Line trains are newish. The old ones (only a few years ago) used to have guards who'd lean out the back of the train to check everything was going OK, and lean back in impressively just in time to avoid being brained by the tunnel wall.

[senji.livejournal.com]

IIRC (and I may not), the new trains have only run on the City Branch since the works last year (because they're a slightly larger gauge than the old ones).

I have a suspicion that the problems with the displays are due to the Northern being less 'electrically clean' than the Jubilee (which was built much later, to more stringent standards, and has less random cabling wandering around). That is just speculation though.

[chess]

I liked the old Northern Line trains.