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The trains in the Broad Street film were 501s not 416s. You can tell by the three car formation (not two) as well as the destination blind high up on the cab front and bars on the door droplights, absent on 416s.
Gonna have a word with the guy who posted the article!
1: The Mini Holland article is clearly ( deliberately? ) ignoring an aspect where their institution costs a lot more, both financially & socially.
If you are disabled & reliant on taxis for transport, then “M-H” projects cost you seriously more time, money inconvenience & hassle.
I have a near neighbour, who usually hobbles with two sticks, for really short distances, but otherwise is taxi-reliant.
Her journeys now take approximately twice as long ( varying between x1.5 & x3, she tells me ) And, of course, costing considerably more.
This is never, ever admitted in public, or spoken of, especially by the “MH” proponents.
2: Broad Street “starred” in an hysterical BT films release of 1959 …
I am a Litter Basket with strong surrealist overtones.
Well worth the 6 minutes watch!