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Post by DWS on Apr 16, 2017 15:48:31 GMT
Just to let you know that there going change the hole fleet with new type of seat yes they have cleaned all the light diffusers and replace all the light tubes PS i think seats will have the London eye on it. Any idea when this work will start and who the order for the new seats was placed with ?
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Post by DWS on Apr 16, 2017 15:45:48 GMT
Surprised to see a couple of class 66 locos on the NB Met Fast at Northwick Park. I thought that the contract with GBRf had finished last year. May be a new contract was signed as LUL are short of powerful locomotives for engineers trains on big jobs such as is going on over a four day track work blockade at Harrow-on-the-Hill.
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Post by DWS on Apr 16, 2017 11:59:14 GMT
The DRM grade is not a "Trains" role, It's a Service Control role, the DRM is a shift job , reporting to the shift Service Manager on the line . Both are accountable to the Service Control Manager. One can argue that service control is part of the trains side- they both come under the PM(T). The function sits better as part of trains, indeed it worked a lot better when part of the DMT role. The break-up of that role has proved to be a predictable failure, hence why we now have seen a reversal with the DTSM and TOSM roles. I think in a perfect world the company would reverse the DRM too, however logistically it's too difficult for various reasons. The London Underground revolving door of change continues to go round in its usual dysfunctional way... Yes I agree with you things are now more dysfunctional, but try telling management that .
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Post by DWS on Apr 16, 2017 9:13:13 GMT
What is happening to the stock stables on the roads at Acton where the sheds are going to be built?! "to be disposed of" , although not '62 Stock RAT or D Stock RAT. hence the recent photo in Underground News !! Disposed of , this is LUL code for being scrapped 🙄🙄
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Post by DWS on Apr 16, 2017 9:09:50 GMT
I won't be there this year. Sounds like the LTM has upset many of the traders by increasing the fees and relocating them outside in insecure tents which means they have to move all their stock over night! Hope to be there next year. How much are traders charged for a stall ?
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Post by DWS on Apr 16, 2017 7:28:01 GMT
And now they are merging the DTSM and TOSM roles into one "Trains Manager" role. Yep, but with the existing salaries retained for each grade, which will obviously be great for team work 🙄 The TOSM grade was what they were all scurrying around the dirt for when the killed off the DMTs, watching all these 'superior' beings vying for the 'alpha' position, so they could come into work wearing a suit, a grade with over inflated importance. The safest of the managers on trains was always going to be the DRM, it's the only position that hasn't been eroded over the years The DRM grade is not a "Trains" role, It's a Service Control role, the DRM is a shift job , reporting to the shift Service Manager on the line . Both are accountable to the Service Control Manager.
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Post by DWS on Apr 15, 2017 8:10:00 GMT
Are you sure about that? According to TfL's website, on 7th May there is: No District between High Street Kensington & Edgware Road No Metropolitan between Wembley Park & Aldgate No Overground between New Cross Gate and West Croydon / Crystal Palace No TfL Rail between Brentwood & Shenfield No mention of any closures on the Circle or H&C I think this is wrong , all London Underground lines have a normal service on Sunday 7 May 2017.
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Post by DWS on Apr 15, 2017 7:49:40 GMT
That just don't happen on the trains believe me Tell use more Mr SOM, are you saying this type of thing happens in the Signal Department ?
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Post by DWS on Apr 14, 2017 7:17:56 GMT
Main photo D, Stratford High Street DLR, lift shaft from eastbound platform , the brick building is the former Great Eastern Railway printing works in Burford road.
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Post by DWS on Apr 13, 2017 23:40:25 GMT
Will this Rail Live show be open to the public or will it be a trade show ? it is a trade show and you have to register in advance Thanks for the information .
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Post by DWS on Apr 13, 2017 13:22:47 GMT
Will this Rail Live show be open to the public or will it be a trade show ?
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Post by DWS on Apr 13, 2017 8:22:47 GMT
New build of a shed in Acton Works is going ahead for this work to be done in house. The site is a group of open sidings , to enable the construction the sidings will have to be cleared of redundant rolling stock currently stored there. The April issue of Underground News has a photo of the trains which include Tube and Surface stocks.
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Post by DWS on Apr 10, 2017 13:09:32 GMT
Chadwell Heath ?
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Post by DWS on Apr 6, 2017 7:52:40 GMT
Main photo is Plaistow.
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Post by DWS on Apr 5, 2017 15:24:39 GMT
Faulty trains at Holborn and Bethnal Green, severe delays this afternoon and may be into the evening rush hour.
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Post by DWS on Mar 17, 2017 13:29:52 GMT
How can an inductive loop be fibre optic? The red inductive loop cable is a non fibre optic, staff on the Jubilee line at the time of the upgrade to the CBTC signalling had a 6 inch length of the cable posted to their home address at the time. Sill have mine some place and it has a single core wire in the centre of the insulation .
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Post by DWS on Mar 16, 2017 6:38:23 GMT
Can some one explain why the D Stock rats can not be put to more use outside the leaf fall season, and be used as de-icer units in the winter season ? I know this may be off topic .
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Post by DWS on Mar 5, 2017 19:07:06 GMT
When I joined LU in 1979 I was offered direct recruit Supervisor, but I chose to come on as a guard. 1979 was pre company plan (1991) so I presume it was for Station Foreman which were directly recruited as well as promotions from railman and leading railman (the successors to stationman and ticket collector) Station Inspectors were internal promotions from Foreman and Train Driver until one man trains practically killed that route due to pay differences. Not all Station Inspectors came from Foreman or Train Drivers. In 1972 I was promoted from Relief Signalman to Station Inspector "A".
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Post by DWS on Feb 25, 2017 11:39:22 GMT
Which is, after all, most of them. Yes most of the accident's happen at stations without the PED's.
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Post by DWS on Feb 25, 2017 11:25:51 GMT
Thanks-that clears it up. Still think it spoils the effect of the rest of the upgrade, but that's a personal opinion. I absolutely agree... especially with it only being one or two (none would be better!). At the same time... they have to fund the fare freeze somehow. 🙃 This a £27 million project , it will take two and half years to compete , only one 1996 stock can be worked on at one time due to the intensive use of the Jubliee line fleet.
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Post by DWS on Feb 25, 2017 11:17:29 GMT
I see there are warning signs for the door's teeth. Presumably to discourage people from trying to get on once the doors are closing. Yes the dragons teeth are to discourage people from trying to get on once the doors are closing. Also the removal of the outside door buttons are to discourage people to press them trying to get doors to reopen, and get too close to trains and getting injured by a train moving , this is an issue on stations without platform edge doors ( PED's ).
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Post by DWS on Feb 16, 2017 23:04:24 GMT
The other place on the District Line uncoupling and coupling up took place was Upminster , but this was done in the depot not the platforms
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Post by DWS on Feb 16, 2017 19:15:30 GMT
The usual predictable totally disproportionate action of an irresponsible, mindless, callous bunch of cowardly louts. Yeah, we're all losing a day's pay for no personal gain to ourselves, supporting colleagues who followed the transfer procedure, were offered a transfer by management to the depots they wanted, were told that Night Tube would be introduced without any detrimental effect to existing drivers and have now been moved off the Central Line. Oh we're such a bunch of callous, cowardly louts!!! Would you stand up for a colleague or would you just shrug and let management get on with it because it didn't affect you? I've been working here for 19 years, 1 month and 11 days, every dispute and every strike I've witnessed has been a result of management or political failure, even in the case of the Northern Line driver who failed a breath test they managed to leave an unsupervised trainee to carry out the first test in complete disregard for procedure. London Underground management are unfit for purpose, every time there's a problem the public and the media give them a free pass, blaming the unions. Management dread the day that unions would be banned as they'd actually have to take responsibility for the mess they create, we're a useful bogey man! Still Mike Brown messes up the Sub Surface Line signalling and Fit for the Future - Stations, he gets promoted to TfL Commissioner. Incompetence is rewarded Well said Mr Shrugged . I am glad to have retired from LUL, the management have been not fit for the task, thats why they keep leaving after a few years in the top posts.
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Post by DWS on Feb 15, 2017 23:46:29 GMT
West Hampstead
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Post by DWS on Feb 15, 2017 18:11:41 GMT
C . Disused staff letter box at Kilburn
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Post by DWS on Feb 11, 2017 7:42:56 GMT
Path to Emerson Park, Overground station.
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Post by DWS on Feb 7, 2017 7:26:56 GMT
I think you are referring to the London Transport Instruction Train which appeared in the parade of 1963 as: Ballast Motor Car L66 – IC1075 – IC1076 – IC1077 – IC1078 – IC1079 – Ballast Motor Car L71. Not Standard Stock. Those are "Cammell Laird" trailers from 1920, and it is indeed a pity none of these - the first Tube stock with air-operated doors - survive. They shared with the F stock on the District the distinctive feature of oval cab windows. Built for the Picadilly Line, to operate with older motor coaches converted from "Gate" stock. Delays in converting the latter meant that the last examples entered service at about the same time as the first Standard stock, in 1923. (They were stored on the spare track of the Aldwych branch) Some were loaned to the Central London Railway in 1926 whilst its own rolling stock was being converted to air door operation. They were converted to work with Standard Stock motor coaches in 1931. Being unsuitable for operation on the Picadilly's long open air sections they were transferred to the Bakerloo, where they only operated south of Queens Park, but were withdrawn as 1938 stock came into service. They were destined next for the Northern City Line, but found to be out of gauge. Most were put into store, but several found non-railway use as mess rooms and the like, and apart form the five cars forming the instruction train, all were scrapped at the end of the War. My source (Brian Hardy's book) does not record the ultimate fate of those last five cars, but they would be in far from original condition by 1963. Why would this stock be out of gauge for the Northern City Line as the Finsbury Park to Moorgate via Essex Road line was built to Main Line loading gauge ?
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Post by DWS on Feb 4, 2017 1:10:08 GMT
No your not getting confused the T stock are no longer at the Spa Valley Railway. Apologies, I trusted the Wikipedia article linked above. Where are they now? If only we had someone in our membership that is involved in editing Wikipedia.... The former 2 coach sleet unit of T Stock was moved from store at the Spa Valley Railway to the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre at Quainton Road by road , over two days -18/20 December 2015 This move was reported in the January 2016 issue of Underground News ( magazine of the London Underground Railway Society ).
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Post by DWS on Feb 3, 2017 23:47:03 GMT
Bank on topic we have a sleet loco preserved in the LT Museum depot at Acton and the Spa Valley has the T Stock cars. Much better than nothing! I thought the ones from spa valley went to the Buckinghamshire railway centre? Or am I getting confused with something else. No your not getting confused the T stock are no longer at the Spa Valley Railway.
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Post by DWS on Jan 30, 2017 23:26:35 GMT
Yes another all lines station staff strike is on the cards, Sunday 5 Feb from 18:00 until 09:59 Monday 6 Feb, Tuesday 7 Feb from 10:00 until 00:59 Wednesday 8 Feb. If this goes ahead this will effect services all day Monday and Tuesday. I have no information about the Drivers dispute on the Central Line if this may be ongoing . ASLEF announced they'd be balloting their Central Line East members 12 days ago, closing date 13 February so expect the result to be announced shortly after that. RMT are still in dispute but haven't announced another strike day yet. Today all the Leytonstone spares are out on the road, there's no dead late spare and we've got two Hainault spares covering Leytonstone duties. And we've got too many drivers here according to management....... TSSA have suspended next weeks for its Station Staff membership , again LUL are try to divide staff on Stations and Trains tactics well honed in past disputes .
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