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Post by seaeagle on Jun 3, 2013 6:55:05 GMT
11001/2 and 11003/4 are replacements for the original Trains 1 and 2. There are two schools of thought - they are Trains 1 and 2 or Trains 48 and 49. Take your pick I think management would like them to be known as Trains 1 and 2. Just to confuse things even more, when the replacement 11001/2 & 11003/4 were in the process of being built and delivered, they were officially trains 48 & 49, then they became trains 1 & 2 when they entered service! Also prior to delivery, one of the trailer cars from T1/48 was damaged in a shunting mishap, so a trailer car was taken from T2/49 to keep to delivery schedule.
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Post by seaeagle on May 19, 2013 20:05:05 GMT
seaeagle when was this commissioned may i ask? (the trains entering platform 5 in auto from the outlet signal). Because the new signalling was in at seven sisters last July yet the trains were still coming in manually? Would have been towards the tail end of last year, October/November time, can't remember exactly off the top of my head.
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Post by seaeagle on May 19, 2013 18:11:02 GMT
From memory it's all manually driven within depot confines up to the last outlet signal (VNP 1937?) and when that clears it's all ATO. AS SE13 says, Seaeagle will be able to confirm. That is exactly what happens, a train coming from the depot has been manually driven to the outlet signal, then auto from there. A train reversing at Seven Sisters sidings, is driven manually into the siding and comes out in atuo.
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Post by seaeagle on May 14, 2013 19:18:25 GMT
I don't do the lottery, but I will say Germany. As its an indicator rather than a signal, if the signal clears and the indicator doesn't light, does the train op have to wait, or will the signal not clear until the indicator lights? Also, what cancels it? In theory the train op is meant to wait until it is lit up, but in practise a lot of T/ops don't really take a lot of notice of it. Many a time a T/op has forgotten to hit the plunger at the south end for one reason or another, we don't really worry about it. It's very rare for a T/op to still be on the south end of the train when it departs and if they were, they'd hit the emergency stop button as soon as the train started moving. The starting signal and the RCC sign are independant of each other.
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Post by seaeagle on May 14, 2013 17:52:00 GMT
A complete guess, Rear Cab Clear? For a complete guess, that's exactly what RCC stands for, (care to guess at this weeks lottery numbers? lol). The driver of an arriving train operates a plunger on the south end of either platform at Brixton once he/she has left the cab.
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Post by seaeagle on May 11, 2013 21:10:19 GMT
I once heard a driver at Harrow apologise for some confusion about his train's destination with the phrase "that work of fiction known as the timetable". Would that get his card marked or would this be seen as fair comment from someone who ought to know? Over the years I think nearly every driver has made comments over the P.A that have been shall we say a bit near the mark, I think it's a case of who is listening on the train at the time. As an example, I once used a four letter word starting with f over the P.A, no one said a word, yet once when the current got turned off, I made a bit of a joke out of it, "sorry for the delay, the electric has gone off and someone is just running down to the bank to get some 50 pence pieces for the meter" and I got taken off and was given a verbal warning!
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Post by seaeagle on Apr 22, 2013 7:06:04 GMT
Was there a test ex Walthamstow or when northbound? No there wasn't. The only time I can ever recall using the Westinghouse on a northbound trip was when I was pushing out a defective train!
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Post by seaeagle on Apr 22, 2013 6:22:16 GMT
As we all know the 1967 stock and C/72 stock was fitted with a failsafe Westinghouse air brake that is tested at the penultimate station on every trip. But with ATO running, only EP+Rheo was used, so how did the driver test the Westnghouse when in ATO? The Westinghouse brake was tested, (or meant to be tested!), every time the train either came out of Northumberland Park depot into Seven Sisters platform 5, (southbound), or when coming out of the sidings into the same platform.
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Post by seaeagle on Apr 17, 2013 10:03:14 GMT
With thanks to Metman for bringing it to our notice, the LT Museum website now has six trips advertised using A Stock on 19th May for the Rickmansworth Festival. Times and prices as follows, (I assume the times are at Rickmansworth): Trip 1: 10.07 - 10.46 Price £5 Trip 2: 11.08 - 12.13 Price £15 Trip 3: 12.42 - 13.46 Price £15 Trip 4: 14.08 - 15.16 Price £15 Trip 5: 15.38 - 16.46 Price £15 Trip 6: 17.08 - 17.36 Price £5 The website doesn't appear to say where the trips go, the link for the timetable doesn't work! Anyway get your credit cards out, here's the link to the website: ticket.ltmuseum.co.uk/peo/default.asp then click all events on the left hand side and scroll down.
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Post by seaeagle on Apr 15, 2013 8:15:34 GMT
Welcome seaeagle, I hope you never have to !!!! on me from a great height Good Luck XF Thanks Xercesfobe. I'm sure if you behave yourself nothing will be dropping on you from a great height. lol
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Post by seaeagle on Apr 11, 2013 14:11:44 GMT
www.ltmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/events/vehicles-on-the-moveOur beautiful Art Deco special – the 1938 Tube stock train, and the latest vehicle to our heritage collection, the A stock, will make journeys to Metro-land as part of the Rickmansworth festival. The Friends of the London Transport Museum are providing a free heritage bus service, which will be available throughout the day, running between Rickmansworth Station and Batchworth Lock where the festival is taking place. Which A stock will be running for this event? Look forward to having a ride on one once again. Sorry to burst your bubble, it will just be the museum's driving car in the bay at Ricky. There were plans to try and get the 4 car out of Neasden, but that has gone very quiet now.
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Post by seaeagle on Apr 3, 2013 7:36:24 GMT
yes that's sort if someone falls in trackway - the plunger allows to cut off power to rail - this commonly found on DLR and other cities The plunger on the Vic stops trains by removing block proceeds, don't think it cuts traction power. You are correct, it doesn't cut traction current off. Any train within the area of the plunger operation with stop, the driver can then switch to RM to move the train if required.
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Post by seaeagle on Apr 1, 2013 20:47:53 GMT
I'll have a look when I'm next on the line to see if I can see the devices that activate them then. Having travelled on the Vic perhaps more than any other line, I can't say I've ever noticed them... I'm a driver on the Vic and know nothing about them.......................
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Post by seaeagle on Mar 30, 2013 21:52:59 GMT
What happens to all the drivers roistered to work on theses days? They are given the choice of changing rest days, taking annual leave or coming into work. The services that are running are being driven by Ricky T/OP's.
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Post by seaeagle on Mar 13, 2013 22:48:42 GMT
You and me both mate! The simple answer is probably not. Speaking to Andy Barr last September he said it was very very unlikely that there would be any A stock out for heritage days during 2013 as there is just so much on. Hopefully 2014 will allow them out. Speaking to someone at Neasdon today, it may just be worth keeping an eye out in the Rickmansworth area on 19th May Car 6132 has been removed from the centre of 5110/11. I don't know how much this manager I was talking to knew about the 19th May, but they said that moves were afoot to make a four car A60 roadworthy for that date. Don't know how much longer I'll be working on the Met, but I'll keep my ear to the ground.
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Post by seaeagle on Mar 13, 2013 22:32:35 GMT
You and me both mate! The simple answer is probably not. Speaking to Andy Barr last September he said it was very very unlikely that there would be any A stock out for heritage days during 2013 as there is just so much on. Hopefully 2014 will allow them out. Speaking to someone at Neasdon today, it may just be worth keeping an eye out in the Rickmansworth area on 19th May Car 6132 has been removed from the centre of 5110/11.
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Post by seaeagle on Mar 5, 2013 19:39:03 GMT
All stock when first introduced is going to have unforseen problems, with the 09 stock on the Vic, the sensitive edge was a nightmare, but generally outside of that, the train was well recived. Having spent the last few weeks going up and down the Met in the cabs, (and driving) S stock, I find them quite good, the TCMS is better than the 09 stock, however speaking to drivers, they've beening moaning about things like no volume control on the radio, no opening windows in the cab, the air con system that you can't turn off to name a few.
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Post by seaeagle on Feb 25, 2013 19:15:08 GMT
I'm going up and down the Met for other reasons Now you have us intrigued.... Believe me it's nothing exciting, unfortunatly.
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Post by seaeagle on Feb 25, 2013 16:08:42 GMT
When you start a job you enjoy, there is always a buzz at first. Any job becomes a chore after a while, sometimes it can even take away some of your enthusiasm (ie. a railway enthusiast becoming a train driver). It lasted a good year or so for me, but I had 38 stock to drive. It gets rekindled when I end up on a new line, currently spending a few weeks on the Met playing with S8's, so the interest is back for a short while until I go back to my home line. Is 'loaning' something which happens a lot on LU? When I was single, I would jump at the chance to work at other First Group depots - it just makes it a bit more interesting. Loaning doesn't happen on LU simply because of road training/stock training issues. I'm going up and down the Met for other reasons, just happen to be taking the chance to drive something different to what I'm more used to while I'm there.
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Post by seaeagle on Feb 24, 2013 14:43:52 GMT
When out driving on the Met this morning, the I/OP who I was with was saying that a certain points to slow down because otherwise bits of the train will start falling off!!! Careful now, Eagle, your home line is a tube. If you forget where you are and accidentally drive an S back home that will be guaranteed to make a few bits fall off. I'm sure there are a few people on here who would love me to try taking an S8 home and destroy it in the process. lol To think the last time I drove to Uxbridge it was on a 67 stock. Happy memories.
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Post by seaeagle on Feb 24, 2013 14:15:00 GMT
When out driving on the Met this morning, the I/OP who I was with was saying that a certain points to slow down because otherwise bits of the train will start falling off!!!
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Post by seaeagle on Feb 24, 2013 14:12:46 GMT
It lasted a good year or so for me, but I had 38 stock to drive. It gets rekindled when I end up on a new line, currently spending a few weeks on the Met playing with S8's, so the interest is back for a short while until I go back to my home line.
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Post by seaeagle on Feb 23, 2013 11:31:07 GMT
Having spent the last week going up and down the Met, (all in the cause of work!), I must say I have heard some rather odd and worrying sounds and rattles, especially compared to the 09 stock that I'm more used to. I have at least another week to come on the Met from tomorrow, may bring a hard hat with me. lol
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Post by seaeagle on Feb 18, 2013 21:31:08 GMT
It was still there this morning. Interestingly enough the notices in the cab are in German, is this DBS trying to sneak onto the Underground via the back door? lol
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Post by seaeagle on Feb 5, 2013 7:51:50 GMT
He was most likely a driver travelling back to Seven Sisters. There are several duties that require drivers to travel on the cushions, i.e. a Seven Sisters driver may finish his or her booked train work at Brixton then has to travel back to Seven Sisters to book off. Brixton drivers also have duties that finish at Seven Sisters.
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Post by seaeagle on Nov 13, 2012 20:40:17 GMT
Yes and err no! I need to be back in Kent for three o'clock that afternoon, so it will be a quick pint at the pub. Of course I need to be there in the morning.
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Post by seaeagle on Oct 22, 2012 19:57:26 GMT
I would like to see the first trains sent to london sent back to Derby first. Poor would be a polite way of decribing them.... Where have I heard that statement before? Ah yes, 09 stock!
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Post by seaeagle on Oct 13, 2012 6:47:33 GMT
That's correct, trains will start going back to depot much earlier than now, for example during the evening peak the first train goes back to depot at half five, only twenty minutes after the last one leaves the depot! <blink> Goodness that's very early for trains to be "going to bed". I assume this is because 33 tph really puts a lot of strain on turn back facilities and cannot be sustained for long periods? Therefore trains need to return to depot pretty quickly. TBH they are just testing the water to see how a 33 tph service will hold up.
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Post by seaeagle on Oct 12, 2012 6:52:15 GMT
"For one hour in each peak period". Thanks, and I'm assuming the rest of the peak will be 30tph as at present. That's correct, trains will start going back to depot much earlier than now, for example during the evening peak the first train goes back to depot at half five, only twenty minutes after the last one leaves the depot!
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Post by seaeagle on Oct 9, 2012 18:16:31 GMT
This caught me out a few weeks ago, you should have heard the controller's reply when I told him I was looking at different coloured signals at Victoria southbound. When the line was re-signalled, the headwall signals were covered over, this has left the problem of station staff being unable to see what aspect the starter signal is showing. So starting with Victoria, the former white aspect on the headwall signal is being used to indicate to station staff when the starter signal clears.
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