Tube lines buys new trains early. (Transit News).

TUBE lines, the consortium responsible for maintaining and upgrading London Underground's Jubilee, Northern, and Piccadilly lines under a controversial Public-Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement, has accelerated a programme to add a seventh car to all Jubilee line trains,

The [pounds sterling]160 million investment, which will increase train capacity by 17%, will be completed by 2006--four years ahead of the original schedule. Tube Lines, a consortium of Amey, Bechtel, and Jarvis, has awarded a [pounds sterling]100 million contract to Alstom Transport for four, seven