A gradual lengthening of London Overground’s fleet of Class 378 trains from four to five-cars has been completed.
All services, excluding Gospel Oak to Barking, are now using five-car trains, increasing capacity by 25 per cent on the East London, West London, North London and Euston to Watford routes.
The rollout of the longer trains began in November 2014 and, together with the associated infrastructure works, has cost £320 million.
TfL’s director of London Overground, Mike Stubbs, said: “Over the whole network, we now carry 176m passengers a year, which is six times the number we carried when we took over this railway in 2007.
“The extra carriages that we have now introduced are enabling us to continue to provide our customers with the high quality of safe, reliable and frequent services that they need and expect.
“It is services like these that connect communities, and support new homes, jobs and economic growth across London.”
So in all. All 57 of London Overground’s Class 378 Capitalstar EMU’s are now 5 carriages in length. At first when the Class 378’s were built as Bombardier have won the contract to build the Class 378’s. They were 3 carriages then a 4th carriage was added to all 57 Class 378’s 5 years later and now a 5th carriage has been added to all the London Overground Class 378’s within a space of 1 year. Amazing achievement that the Class 378’s were from 3 carriages to now 5 carriages.