Growing Pains for a Deep-Sea Home Built of Subway Cars

[Vladd67]

Growing Pains for a Deep-Sea Home Built of Subway Cars | Vladd’s view of the World
An interesting and creative use for old subway trains, makes you wonder what happens to the old tube trains in London.

 

[The Ace]

People ride in them, Vlad.

 

[Ursa major]

And sometimes they ride on them on the Isle of Wight, on their Island Line. To quote Wiki:

"Standard National Rail vehicle types cannot operate on the Island Line, due to a tunnel at Ryde Esplande being 10 inches too low for the vehicles to clear. Instead, services are operated using Class 483 units, which are refurbished ex-London Underground tube trains originally built in 1938. These replaced the older Class 485 and Class 486 units, which dated from 1923."
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[ray gower]

I thought they (IoWR trains) were looking a bit modern. What luxury!

I thought it rather good when they first put old underground trains on the route, the politest term for the rolling stock from Newport on the Isle of White Central was quaint.