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Post by towerman on Sept 25, 2008 18:41:25 GMT
In February & March there are weekend closures between Morden & Stockwell.
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Post by superteacher on Sept 26, 2008 17:01:28 GMT
In February & March there are weekend closures between Morden & Stockwell. Chance to see Stockwell reversers - they are quite rare in day to day service, usually seen when the job has been up the wall! |
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Post by ruislip on Sept 26, 2008 18:57:26 GMT
What reversing facilities exist at Stockwell?
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Post by DWS on Sept 26, 2008 19:37:26 GMT
What reversing facilities exist at Stockwell? A trailing crossover. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2008 10:35:25 GMT
Whats being done? Points at Tooting Broadway (finally) or is it related to new signalling etc
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Post by towerman on Sept 27, 2008 17:30:37 GMT
The more detailed engineering closures page in WTT section doesn't go that far yet so I can't say.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2008 21:49:22 GMT
Will also be interesting how LU handle the replacement bus service. Given the current "ideal" of not favouring them.
If I remember last time there were loads of buses on the road.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2008 11:22:03 GMT
What reversing facilities exist at Stockwell? A trailing crossover. Which presumably means everything will use the southbound platform and the starting signal will be U9, I guess. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2008 18:29:58 GMT
Which presumably means everything will use the southbound platform and the starting signal will be U9, I guess. No other way to reverse south to north at Stockwell other than going NB from the SB platform. |
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Post by PGtrips on Oct 2, 2008 13:15:32 GMT
So presumably this will mean stepping back in order to achieve anything like a reasonable frequency?
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Post by astock5000 on Oct 3, 2008 17:55:26 GMT
Will some trains from the Bank branch have to use the reversing siding at Kennington, and will some trains have to stable at other places, instead of at Morden Depot so there are enough trains on the line?
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Post by rrbs on Oct 16, 2008 14:49:54 GMT
Author: to the letter of the contract, these are minor closures.
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Post by norfolkdave on Dec 15, 2008 10:29:51 GMT
Well there you go, learn something new everyday, all the years I was on LT I can never remember reversing`at stockwell.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2008 12:49:06 GMT
Will some trains from the Bank branch have to use the reversing siding at Kennington, and will some trains have to stable at other places, instead of at Morden Depot so there are enough trains on the line? I would expect the Bank branch services to be the only services to Stockwell and the Charing Cross branch to run round the Kennington loop. A slightly reduced four minute interval service on both branches, should be able to be covered from the number of trains stabled at Edgware, Golders Green, Highgate and High Barnet. The first trains from Stockwell running empty from at least Golders Green. |
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Post by tubebasher on Feb 25, 2009 14:13:52 GMT
That's waht was happening last weekend. I did also notice that Charing X branch services to/ from Kennington were only running to/from Edgware and Bank Branch services to/from Stockwell were only running to/from High Barnet. While this fact was displayed on the dot matrix platform indicators and at some stations on whiteboards, it was not on any printed engineering posters. Why?
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Post by Chris M on Feb 25, 2009 23:16:46 GMT
Presumably it wasn't on engineering posters because if, for any reason, it wasn't possible to run Edgware-Charring Cross-Kennington or High Barnet-Bank-Stockwell the line would be running a different service pattern.
For example I believe recently that there was some sort of (points?) failure that meant trains were running High Barnet-Charring Cross-Kennington and Edgware-Bank-Morden. Alternatively if there was a signal failure at Kentish Town then trains from Edgware would, I presume, be running to both central London branches.
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Post by astock5000 on Feb 25, 2009 23:23:01 GMT
But wouldn't passengers expect the service to be changed if there was a failure, and the Northern would be shown as havving delays, wouldn't it? Couldn't station staff make announcements to say that the service had been changed?
Also, 'Charing' only has one 'r'.
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Post by Chris M on Feb 27, 2009 23:29:24 GMT
But wouldn't passengers expect the service to be changed if there was a failure, and the Northern would be shown as havving delays, wouldn't it? Couldn't station staff make announcements to say that the service had been changed? Passengers may or may not expect the service to be changed if there was a failure, but why go to the extra trouble of producing posters et al specifying routes only to then have the extra trouble of explaining that the posters are wrong (and I'd guess many people would also ask why, and a reason would need to be given) when the frontline staff who have to go to this extra trouble are potentially at their busiest dealing with the failure? Also, 'Charing' only has one 'r'. Whoops! I am very poor at remembering whether any given word has a single or double letter in the middle, and I didn't have anything to hand to check with. Sorry. |
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