C stock stopping marks at Wimbledon

Then they'll take the old C stock OPO equipment out and some drivers will forget and need assisted dispatch...

Where do you stop C stocks at Richmond and Ealing when sent to these locations as there are no C stock stopping marks at either.

I knew about the bay road C stock markers, I used them many times when I was on the H&C but I have never noticed them at Ealing.

The new stopping marks were brought into use today. Click for a pic of the one on platform 1:

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They're a bit different from other C stock marks, being C|R within a diamond, a bit of a combination of previous types.

It basically stands for C Reversing mark

I suspect you're right about it being more of an issue since the D's were refurbed - certainly the C stock's mirrors get in the way and that's really the crux of the issue.

There always was separate stopping marks at wimbledon until a few years back when they were taken out due to passenger complaints about the extra walk to the C stocks...guess what's going to happen in a few weeks/months when they have to do the extra walk.....you couldn't make it up.

I went to Wimbledon on Monday and travelled there on a C Stock, and it pulled up to the 'old mark' right by the fixed red lights, I noticed that the OPO mirrors for the C Stock were removed my question is... When this train left would the Driver have an assisted departure or would he have used the former Guards Controls whilst standing on the platform observing the doors to leave?

The train was in Platform 1 so there is a nice view down the train from the 'country end'

With regards to C stock operation to both Ealing & Richmond they are only routed into category B platforms. In the case of Ealing this is platforms 7 & 9 and for richmond platforms 4 & 6. This means that the T/Operators can self dispatch like any other cat B platform.

IIRC only platforms 7 and 9 at Ealing Broadway have C stock marks. None of the platforms at Richmond have them.

AFAIK those instructions only apply when the train is stopped at the normal stopping mark and the OPO equipment is defective, so the safest bet is just to get assisted despatch from another t/op.

Good point! My mistake.

"Non-stopping" a terminus is not quite as daft as it first sounds! Trains could detrain at the previous station and run empty in and out of the terminus.

I think that the two statements are actually part of the same comment, rather than two separate ones. i.e. the unions wouldn't be happy with drivers being told to put their train on the concourse; personal injury claims being one reason that they wouldn't be happy.

Although drivers should be savvy enough to work out what is really meant, it isn't obvious to the layman that, at least in this circumstance "non-stop" means "do not call at a station in service" rather than the literal "do not stop the train at a station" - at non terminus stations the two are (as far as a layperson is aware) identical.