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Post by aslefshrugged on Jul 11, 2021 8:27:20 GMT
No Bakerloo Line services from 19:00 today. Customers are advised to complete their journeys by 17:30. BBC's Tom Edwards on Twitter claimng it due to shortage of control room staff but while I was writing this the status has changed to "good service" so maybe some of the staff have returned to work
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Post by aslefshrugged on Jul 1, 2021 10:42:54 GMT
1992ts 133m, that should still fit on the platforms, there are a few where the rear cab is in the tunnel when the train is fully berthed (I've spent quite a bit of time in the rear cab over the last 18 months) The new stock on pic line will have front and rear cab in tunnels on most of the stations So if the driver needs to leave the cab they'll have to use the J Door and reach the platform via the saloon, as with the 1967ts and 1972ts. That'll be fun at 8:30 on a Monday morning... How will the train be dispatched if CCTV fails? The driver won't be able to look out of the cab door to check the platform on Category Bs and they won't be able to see the stations staff giving a hand signal on Category As. Not too clever...
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Post by aslefshrugged on Jul 1, 2021 7:53:48 GMT
Out of curiosity, I decided to do some rough calculations to get an estimate of the different car lengths and, by extension, approximate lengths of different formations. Based on the requirement for a 10-11m bogie spacing as stated in the Rail Engineer article I reckon that the trailers will be somewhere around 10m long with the intermediate motors around 14m (the difference will be approximately 2x bogie length). The driving motors are likely to be slightly longer than the intermediate motors due to the extra length of the cabs (as a comparison, S stock driving cars are about 2m longer than the intermediate cars). It is easy to check that these figures are at least close to the actual lengths since this would put a 9-car train at 110m + cabs which would be close to the stated length of 113.7m. Therefore, by either adding or subtracting car lengths I calculate that a 5-car train would be somewhere around 66m while an 11-car train would be about 138m. 66m is a perfect fit for the Waterloo & City since a 4-car 92TS is 65.982m long, however as an 8-car 92TS is only 132.294m the cars for the replacement Central line trains would each need to be about a half metre shorter than on the other lines in order to still fit. This corresponds to the last sentence in the article. These estimates tie in with the figures in the December 2020 Underground News. The new Central line trains may be a little longer than the current trains, up to 134.4m. 1992ts 133m, that should still fit on the platforms, there are a few where the rear cab is in the tunnel when the train is fully berthed (I've spent quite a bit of time in the rear cab over the last 18 months)
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Post by aslefshrugged on Jun 25, 2021 18:02:37 GMT
I'm sure I've read previously on this site that by the time the Tubelines-era new Piccadilly line trains were cancelled, they were intended to be articulated and walk-through, and had almost reached the point of issuing an Invitation to Tender. I can't find the relevant post though. I am absolutely certain that I read online somewhere that an Invitation to Tender was issued then withdrawn in 2010, maybe 2011 but similarly I can't find any reference to it now. As for private sector v public sector, London Underground started planning Oyster in the 1990s while they were under the DfT and after 2003 TfL expanded it but the privatised TOCs took ages before they accepted it (2010?)
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Post by aslefshrugged on Jun 20, 2021 11:23:25 GMT
Under PPP Tube Lines were to deliver new trains on the Piccadilly from 2014 and Metronet on the Bakerloo from 2019. Even though Metronet folded in 2007 a tender was put out but then withdrawn after Tube Lines also went bust in 2010.
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Post by aslefshrugged on Jun 15, 2021 8:33:30 GMT
Is the Woodford shuttle the only four-car service? Also, am I right in thinking Epping-Ongar never operated the 1992 Stock? Woodford shuttles are 8-car
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Post by aslefshrugged on Jun 14, 2021 1:44:39 GMT
Odd, when I've worked the W&C I've never noticed a lift on the arrivals platform. I will have a look the next time I'm down there although with only 10 duties required for peak time working that might not be until September
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Post by aslefshrugged on Jun 12, 2021 8:03:28 GMT
The problem with the Waterloo and City is there's a ramp at Waterloo "Departures" platform but only stairs at "Arrivals". Bank has step free access from the new Walbrook entrance.
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Post by aslefshrugged on Jun 12, 2021 7:48:11 GMT
If you are "travelling to locations that cannot be reached by walking" you don't need a car, you need a boat or a plane. Sorry. I'm in the Durham coalfield, not the Jet Set. People walk from Land's End to John o'Groats I'm in Leyton, I don't own a car but I've never needed one as I walk or use public transport to get wherever I need to go
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Post by aslefshrugged on Jun 11, 2021 8:58:11 GMT
If you are "travelling to locations that cannot be reached by walking" you don't need a car, you need a boat or a plane.
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Post by aslefshrugged on Jun 7, 2021 8:56:31 GMT
The re-opening is a great relief: last autumn's financial bailout discussions showed the Treasury flying the kite of permanent closures of parts of the network. Nothing specific was mentioned/leaked at the time but one can well imagine that the W&C, along with Mill Hill East and the Fairlop loop were in the Treasury sights. [Not that that would save any significant sums, any more than driverless trains will, but the important thing to understand about the Treasury is that, like the Bourbons, they learn nothing and forget nothing...] The Fairlop loop is sacrosanct, a lot of influential people live in the vicinity and use those stations. As for the W&C the City of London Corporation would cause a huge stink if it was closed permanently. A return to Monday -Friday 06:15 - 22:00 and closing Saturdays seems more likely, we never understood why it was expanded in the first place According to BBC's Tom Edwards there was a "soft opening" Friday, so "soft" that none of us at Leytonstone knew it was open
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Post by aslefshrugged on Jun 5, 2021 7:48:52 GMT
First train Dep Waterloo 06:07 Dep Bank 06:14
Last train Dep Waterloo 10:02 Dep Bank 10:09
First train Dep Waterloo 15:23 Dep Bank 15:30
Last train Dep Waterloo 19:00 Dep Bank 19:07
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Post by aslefshrugged on Jun 4, 2021 15:45:24 GMT
Good news
Booked on for work and was greeted with an email sent today at 15:49 announcing that the W&C will open on Monday 7th, apparently they've had successful trial running this week
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Post by aslefshrugged on Jun 4, 2021 12:09:51 GMT
The plot thickens
Both RMT Reps at Hainault have quit and joined ASLEF. Apparently there was a bit of friction with head office who blamed them for not getting the strike vote but they say that after speaking to the members they warned head office that there wouldn't be enough support for a strike
And that is why I will never be a Rep again!
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Post by aslefshrugged on Jun 1, 2021 9:09:32 GMT
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Post by aslefshrugged on May 31, 2021 11:11:51 GMT
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Post by aslefshrugged on May 31, 2021 3:35:48 GMT
Whoops, maybe whoever typed up the notice at Leytonstone hadn't seen the timetable...
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Post by aslefshrugged on May 30, 2021 13:02:02 GMT
Waterloo & City reopens 14 June, passenger services from 21 June
5 minute service
06:15 - 09:00 and 15:30 - 19:00
Just 10 drivers, 4 ''running'' and a spare for each peak
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Post by aslefshrugged on May 29, 2021 5:47:19 GMT
The FT claims that TfL will get another bailout of about £1bn to "cover roughly six months of TfL’s budget until the Treasury’s comprehensive spending review at the end of this year". However TfL will have to "find £300m savings in the current financial year" on top of the "£730m a year of annual spending cuts by the middle of this decade" and "identify between £500m and £1bn a year of new annual income-raising measures from April 2023". Various methods of "income-raising" suggested are:- - a new Greater London Boundary charge for cars driving into London - expansion of the capital’s congestion charge zone to the north and south circular. - fares to rise by the equivalent of 17 per cent spread over several years - increase the supplement in Londoner’s council tax bills equivalent to £130-£165 annually for Band D properties - a “tourist tax” or development levies www.ft.com/content/27a1b02c-3188-45ba-b903-923b5f563df2
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Post by aslefshrugged on May 29, 2021 2:59:25 GMT
If the result supports a strike I predict management launching a legal challenge as the ballot includes drivers on the five lines that currently don't have Night Tube and won't immediately be effected.
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Post by aslefshrugged on May 28, 2021 13:41:56 GMT
RMT have just announced a ballot over Night Tube which also closes 29th June so it looks as if they're going to roll the two disputes together
I suppose the question is whether they can ballot all drivers or just those on lines that were doing Night Tube before it was stopped
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Post by aslefshrugged on May 28, 2021 12:40:45 GMT
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Post by aslefshrugged on May 28, 2021 2:46:30 GMT
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Post by aslefshrugged on May 25, 2021 5:19:24 GMT
H&S Reps from Leytonstone visiting the W&C tomorrow (Wednesday) with management for an inspection.
LU was advertising for IOps a few weeks ago as unsurprisingly quite a few of the senior drivers who retired over the last 12 months were IOps. Added to the difficulties of training under Covid restrictions it could be a long time before we have enough drivers to run a full service
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Post by aslefshrugged on May 25, 2021 4:14:38 GMT
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Post by aslefshrugged on May 21, 2021 10:41:35 GMT
Museum siding was decommissioned on 21 May 2016 because the points were prone to failing and maintenance costs were huge.
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Post by aslefshrugged on May 14, 2021 13:31:20 GMT
BBC's transport correspondent Tom Edwards on Twitter saying that the Waterloo and City will reopen 21 June, I don't book on until 16:45 so I will check then
Addendum: There was nothing when I went into work but its been confirmed by various sources.
WTT7 had 26 duties Monday-Friday, 21 running turns and five spares but we are told that the peak service will only need 14 duties so there's going to be a lot of unhappy Drainites. Leytonstone could look like "The Hunger Games".
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Post by aslefshrugged on May 10, 2021 14:30:28 GMT
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think Section 12s have to have a member of staff overnight or all the entrances have to be locked. Also if contractors are working on any station I think there has to be a member of staff on duty.
I left stations in 2002 so my memory is a little hazy
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Post by aslefshrugged on May 4, 2021 18:37:44 GMT
The article on the RMT website is dated Friday 30 April and the management bulletin saying its suspended was Saturday 1 May but according to all the RMT members inc. one of the reps I've spoken to they all say its off
I have been told that LU MD Andy Lord will have a sit down with newly elected RMT Gen Sec Mick Lynch (ex-electrician on Eurostar) to discuss the matter but that could just be mess-room banter
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Post by aslefshrugged on May 4, 2021 13:18:33 GMT
I have realised that as a "late" the D&A are always going to be there before I book on but that wouldn't be the case with "dead earlies". 6 years, 8 months and 12 days to retirement but the brain is already slowing down... You missed this bit the next day Yesterday mylondon.news website cut-and-paste the Evening Standard article announcing the strike from last week, two days after it was called off www.mylondon.news/lifestyle/travel/london-underground-central-line-strike-20512548London seriously needs a proper news service!
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