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Post by Chris M on Nov 4, 2015 13:06:59 GMT
Currently the TfL website shows London Overground has no service between South Acton and Gunnersbury due to a signal failure at South Acton with a good service elsewhere. Are they really reversing at Gunnersbury, without impacting the District? I'd have thought it more likely that LO was suspended Richmond - South Acton with just the District running between Richmond and Gunnersbury?
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Post by superteacher on Nov 4, 2015 19:26:42 GMT
Currently the TfL website shows London Overground has no service between South Acton and Gunnersbury due to a signal failure at South Acton with a good service elsewhere. Are they really reversing at Gunnersbury, without impacting the District? I'd have thought it more likely that LO was suspended Richmond - South Acton with just the District running between Richmond and Gunnersbury? I think you've probably called it right Chris. As the District line provides a service between Richmond and Gunnersbury, technically the LO service isn't suspended between the two. |
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Post by greatkingrat on Nov 4, 2015 19:51:21 GMT
Still sounds a bit odd. Would they say the Circle line is only suspended between Aldgate and Tower Hill and between Gloucester Road and High Street Ken, on the basis everything else is covered by other lines?
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Post by wimblephil on Nov 4, 2015 20:04:36 GMT
Currently the TfL website shows London Overground has no service between South Acton and Gunnersbury due to a signal failure at South Acton with a good service elsewhere. Are they really reversing at Gunnersbury, without impacting the District? I'd have thought it more likely that LO was suspended Richmond - South Acton with just the District running between Richmond and Gunnersbury? I think you've probably called it right Chris. As the District line provides a service between Richmond and Gunnersbury, technically the LO service isn't suspended between the two. But surly (if it is in fact the case) technically the LO service IS suspended; the District is not. |
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Post by superteacher on Nov 4, 2015 20:05:17 GMT
Still sounds a bit odd. Would they say the Circle line is only suspended between Aldgate and Tower Hill and between Gloucester Road and High Street Ken, on the basis everything else is covered by other lines? I think it's odd too. I was just trying to speculate what the logic behind it was. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2015 1:51:30 GMT
The east to west move at Gunnersbury is a main line shunt on the London Overground tracks, so it shouldn't really be too disruptive. You can just slot trains into the normal London Overground paths. Admittedly tipping everyone out on the eastbound platform before shunting forward would be a nuisance, but Gunnersbury is a timing point so it's not that unusual to have a little dwell there. And then the shunt back into the westbound is low speed, but it's a low permanent speed restriction over the junction anyway, so it shouldn't be much more disruptive than bringing a train in from South Acton.
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Post by norbitonflyer on Nov 5, 2015 10:08:48 GMT
But if the District is running what would be the point in running an Overground shuttle between Richmond and Gunnersbury as well? Tipping out at Gunnersbury, for everyone to have to wait for the District train they could have caught at Richmond or Kew gardens anyway, would introduce more delays. It's quite a trek to South Acton - not so far to Chiswick Park, but there's no service there this week.
And unless a 378 happened to be trapped south of Gunnersbury anyway, where would the stock come from?
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