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Post by philthetube on Sept 23, 2016 1:37:06 GMT
But were they bored in the traditional sense of the word? You can still build a cut and cover single funnel. TfL calls them "single bore tunnels" here, which is what I was thinking when I made my post. I wasn't thinking hard enough to know for certain whether they were built by cut and cover or bored out of the ground, but I think they were bored out of the ground, they look like it and it's a tight fit in those tunnels. According to Video125 certain types of surface stock were banned on the section, although it was big enough for the A stock, and they were the biggest of all those that were left by the millennium. The tunnels on the met north of Baker Street are nothing like as tight as the tube ones, there is room to walk down the side of a train in these tunnels, that is deff not possible in the tube ones.
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Post by philthetube on Sept 23, 2016 1:33:08 GMT
One bell from the guard for starting was the only authorised bell signal as far as I remember. different to BR where the guard had a whole series of bells. 1=stop 2=go 3 set back..I forget the rest, I'll have to look up my KESR Rule Book for DMU bell codes! That's interesting, thanks. What if an Underground train stopped in the wrong place, how would the guard let the driver know that he could not open the doors? I never knew that to happen, all stock on a line being the same length it all stopped on the same mark, however not sure if this was ever an issue in the days when stock used to be split en route.
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Post by philthetube on Sept 18, 2016 15:26:38 GMT
See shouldn't write these when tired. Drivers need to depart at the correct time so they are on time when at the junction at Chalfont Ah gotcha Thanks for clearing that up Drivers need to depart at the correct time so they don't leave people with a half hour wait at Chesham, cant really understand it but people don't like that sort of thing, despite the views. On a slighty different topic, are there any conventionally signalled stations without starters?
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Post by philthetube on Sept 16, 2016 23:58:34 GMT
We are like a third world country in situations like this when major weather causes chaos I suspect that on this criteria the only not third world countries are the ones with no railways, with the damage that tornadoes cause in America they must be around 5th world.
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Post by philthetube on Sept 14, 2016 17:07:37 GMT
on the MET we have a couple of stations without station starters, including Chesham which is a terminus station so not departing early matters,.
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Post by philthetube on Sept 13, 2016 14:20:52 GMT
we had quite a few, many of them were rude, but easy to remember, I am sure things have changed big time now.
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Post by philthetube on Sept 12, 2016 0:31:30 GMT
Guilty, (hides under bush with red face)
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Post by philthetube on Sept 11, 2016 19:53:07 GMT
There is the timetable, which all T/Ops should carrry.
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Post by philthetube on Sept 11, 2016 14:57:22 GMT
At least one S stock has now stickers next to the driving handle saying that it has been "modded" for ATO, there is no other evidence in the cab confirming this and it does not drive any differently
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Post by philthetube on Sept 11, 2016 7:17:40 GMT
There are Two emergency brake buttons, one on each side of the cab, thoughtfully placed for automatic train operation mode. In the olden days, on the Victoria Line's 1967 trains, you had a red emergency brake lever on the offside dashboard, on the driver side, the operator simply moved the traction & brake controller lever to the braking position (The 1967's TBC braking positions remained permanently live even in auto mode!). The Brake on the right is for the use of a trainer, unlike the original vic trains where the driver operated the doors from the platform side of the cab an S stock driver remains in their seat where the monitors are easily visible, so would never use the other emergency stop button. Excluding using the emergency stop button for brake tests I cannot recall hearing of one ever being used.
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Post by philthetube on Sept 9, 2016 16:23:51 GMT
They do perform well though, never seem to be wrong though occasionally you see them change as a train arrives.
The only issue with them is that they have no flexibility, for example the display for the last Chesham will still say change at Chalfont for Amersham, even though there isn't a connection available
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Post by philthetube on Sept 9, 2016 1:58:03 GMT
I am not sure where the big kink comes from between Croxley and Watford, according ot the ordinance survey the line is virtually straight.
Looking again it appears to follow the line of the old West Watford line, soon to be Croxley rail link. Oops, I think someone misread a map.
Uxbridge is actually due south of Rickmansworth but to show the Met going as far west as it actually does would leave acres of blank space underneath it, so in my opinion fully understandable and acceptable.
I tend to think of the Met going north, when I look at a map it always surprises me how far west it actually does go,
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Post by philthetube on Sept 7, 2016 14:14:54 GMT
Well done Harrow is the one,
Platform 2 to Rickmansworth up the fast Platform 3/4 to Watford Platform 5 into the siding Platform 6 to Uxbridge
Keeping the signaller busy
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Post by philthetube on Sept 7, 2016 13:50:16 GMT
Can you get two Met trains leave Baker Street at the same time with one coming to a stop further along? Plus Jubilee and Bakerloo going north you could get four to leave Baker Street at the same time but three would have spads. No, two cannot leave together, the next signal up the line is beyond all the points.
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Post by philthetube on Sept 7, 2016 13:47:42 GMT
I doubt if that would be allowed, unless the reduced service involved closing a branch.
I think the service level was specified by the BTP.
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Post by philthetube on Sept 7, 2016 13:44:31 GMT
Sorry to hijack your page Chris.
No correct answers so far.
If it helps all trains are on the same level
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Post by philthetube on Sept 7, 2016 5:25:41 GMT
Hope you don't mind, fun question during the delay,
Which is the only station on LU where 4 trains can depart in the same direction (eg, north south east or west), at the same time.
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Post by philthetube on Sept 6, 2016 17:44:07 GMT
These are the sort of facts that some instructors and instructor operators throw around to try and impress
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Post by philthetube on Sept 5, 2016 18:09:16 GMT
I can speak for the Piccadilly Line. We have a little issue with having a bit of a shortage of Instructor Operators. This is having the effect of extending the length of training, set initially for 14 weeks on our line as it is complex and manually driven but my training went on for about 18 weeks before I passed my road test. There is obviously a range of abilities amongst the trainees and anyone that requires a little more training can ask for it. I have no idea at what stage we will have sufficiently trained T/Ops to put on the Night Tube service so we will wait and see when an announcement is made. There are various rumours knocking around but until we hear something official, nobody really knows. I had my first weekend driving alone last weekend. Apart from a bit of disruption on Friday night caused by a SPAD (not one of us!), I got turned early at T2/3 to get me back on time but thankfully the weekend ended uneventful for me! It is of course 100% concentration on the Picc. There are so many signals to observe, for those who aren't aware, if I drive from Cockfosters to T5 and back again, I will observe and act on around 700 signals. Can't afford to miss any of them! I think you are very lucky to get some short shifts to start. I remember my first week on the Northern, I was exhausted at the end of every shift, always driving on the edge of my seat, not sure what was round the next corner etc. Enjoy your career.
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Post by philthetube on Sept 4, 2016 16:01:00 GMT
Any of the new drivers like to give a report on how they have been getting on?
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Post by philthetube on Sept 4, 2016 13:10:41 GMT
I would be surprised if drivers are observing smartphones, if you can see the glow then so can anyone else and being caught would mean good bye job.
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Post by philthetube on Sept 1, 2016 15:28:37 GMT
It has never been done for last trains, these put out duff information, eg. on the last Chesham the advice is given to change at Moor P ark for Watford, really not a good idea. The problems with getting drivers to do it is that as they cannot hear the announcements they are not aware what needs overriding or correcting and to occasionally do something which is outside the norm on a routine job is difficult to remember.
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Post by philthetube on Aug 30, 2016 21:46:27 GMT
It could be possible to have made it possible to lock in an S8 on the branch using the Selective door opening to only open doors on half the train at Chalfont, however it would be unconventional, probably difficult to get past regulators and not worth the trouble for the very rare occasions needed. Would have needed major mods to implement SDO per half train. Currently only the DM car doorways are SDO. The other cars don't have the SDO facility. It would not have been a mod, it could have gone in at the build stage
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Post by philthetube on Aug 29, 2016 12:06:20 GMT
It could be possible to have made it possible to lock in an S8 on the branch using the Selective door opening to only open doors on half the train at Chalfont, however it would be unconventional, probably difficult to get past regulators and not worth the trouble for the very rare occasions needed.
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Post by philthetube on Aug 28, 2016 18:02:14 GMT
A1000 fails if either the policeman approaching the platform or the one in the platform fail. (policemen are trainstops which regulate train speeds).
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Post by philthetube on Aug 28, 2016 14:07:46 GMT
The problem is the way the drivers use the handset, it is necessary to place your mouth much closer to the handset on an S stock, the benefits of this are that this avoids background noise such as the train radio, and gives a much cleared announcement if done correctly, the drawback is that if your mouth is 3 inches from the speaker then a garbled message is broadcast. It is a training issue. Bombardier didn't get everything wrong. Perhaps when all D Stock is withdrawn the drivers will get used to holding the handset closer all the time. possibly, but drivers need to hear a problem of what they sound like, they are not going to change what they are doing when not aware of a problem
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Post by philthetube on Aug 27, 2016 11:52:33 GMT
Fascinating to see from the first picture on the link front page that the linear garden on the Yamanote line is at least as bad as Network Rail's I rather suspect that is a siding or depot location. I've no recollection of between the tracks "station gardens" anywhere on the Tokyo rail system when I used it. As you'd expect it was pretty spotless! Heck they employ people to regularly scrape chewing gum off the steps in stations - they'd not allow a rogue plant to appear on the main running lines! you don't often see chewing gum on underground stations either
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Post by philthetube on Aug 27, 2016 11:13:36 GMT
The problem is the way the drivers use the handset, it is necessary to place your mouth much closer to the handset on an S stock, the benefits of this are that this avoids background noise such as the train radio, and gives a much cleared announcement if done correctly, the drawback is that if your mouth is 3 inches from the speaker then a garbled message is broadcast. It is a training issue.
Bombardier didn't get everything wrong.
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Post by philthetube on Aug 5, 2016 2:32:51 GMT
There appears to be work going on at the cabin, new steps to the entrance and scaffolding and possibly? building work, anyone know what is being done?
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Post by philthetube on Aug 5, 2016 1:45:01 GMT
yes the met is often suspended when there are problems in the city, all Aldgate services tip out Harrow then run down the fast to Wembley and away, back out right time north, as crew reliefs are all Harrow or Ricky this causes no operational problems.
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