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Post by hollywood on Apr 1, 2014 3:28:31 GMT
As the current WTTs are on the new TFL website we can see exactly what a Good Service would have been at that hour:
23.04 Hainault 23.09 Epping 23.14 Woodford via Hainault 23.19 Epping 23.24 Hainault 23.29 Epping 23.34 Hainault 23.39 Loughton 23.44 Epping 23.50 Hainault
Obviously the timetable was shredded due to the two customer issues. But as this was the final hour of service for the night, the gaps experienced could well have come from only a single cancellation (corresponding to either the 23.19 or 23.29 Epping trains) followed by just a bit of late running.
We all agree consecutive gaps of double the timetabled interval is not Good Service. But could it just be that at such late hour the controller is primarily concerned with insuring the running of the last trains on each route as published? Knowing that those trains would run would there be any point in advertising delays?
(I know this is a well-worn question; I hope you don't mind indulging an infrequent visitor who, thanks to this site and others like it, finds it easier to use public transport in London, and trains between UK cities, than in his own USA hometown)
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Post by hollywood on Mar 25, 2014 4:46:40 GMT
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Post by hollywood on Jun 21, 2012 18:22:02 GMT
Train is reversing from the Euston bank branch platforms. Since there is an apparent belief that "Euston via Bank" is misleading to the customers (as the train will not be carrying on to Bank) "not via Mornington Crescent" is the compromise. No such move is timetabled at that hour. Was this a reform to cover a gap in one branch, or was the train being returned to the depot? No idea what it's about, but this and this will explain why it wasn't stopping at Mornington Crescent - it wouldn't be going through it! "Look at the map and figure it out yourself" is not the kindest greeting for a new member making her first post...just sayin'
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Post by hollywood on Apr 11, 2012 19:12:16 GMT
Looking at the Crossrail Timetabling page you can crunch the numbers thusly: Of the peak 12 TPH Westbound from Canary Wharf, seven will end at Paddington while five continue further west Of the peak ten TPH terminating at Heathrow, six will be ex-Paddington while four originate further east Thus the presumptive possibility of an average of two TPH from Canary Wharf continuing to Heathrow--or at least a same-platform interchange in central London. Of course all this assumes that each western terminus serves each eastern one in precise porportion to the proposed service levels and remains so even in off-peak hours. (Or is the service pattern more likely to be akin to the current DLR?)
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Post by hollywood on Jan 8, 2011 4:34:06 GMT
Just wondering what the rationale is in running the old Circle service this weekend when there are no track closures requiring it. The H&C is running Hammersmith-Aldgate as its eastern end is closed, but that still leaves only a half service on the Hammersmith branch. With all the weekend closures since the current service patterns began a year ago, has it become the norm to run only one of the two services to Hammersmith every weekend? Or is there an issue with reversing capacity at Edgware Rd this weekend?
Similarly, with the H&C occupying Aldgate, the Met is reversing at Moorgate. The opposite would only require one line modifying its service rather than two. (To me it would all make more sense to just run normal Circle, normal Met, and H&C turning at KX or Moorgate) The Met stopping at Willesden Green should not require short turning, as Farringdon is being non-stopped. Is it an operational preference to have the Met trains hold up the C&H as they enter and exit Moorgate, rather than the other way around? Or does having the C-stocks reversing at Aldgate make better provision for reformations when the inevitable disruption of the old Circle occurs?
(Thanks for indulging some obvious questions from an occasional tourist whose experience on the tube is all of five days; in my ramblings I probably answered some of them myself. And as I have cobbled this together from some seemingly contradictory information on the TfL site [the journey planner says the same service will run next weekend, while the track closures page does not] feel free to say if I have got it all wrong)
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Post by hollywood on Dec 29, 2010 3:42:47 GMT
Also, Russell Square and Heathrow Terminal 4. I can't imagine there being stampedes at Heathrow and Russell Square. Are there other events going on, other than at the river, that are very poorly publicised? Russell Square is exit only from 2230 reopening by 0300. In my limited time in London, I found Friday night at Russell Square just as heaving as Saturday evening at Covent Garden (which will similarly be exit only NYE). Better safe than sorry at lift-only stations, I presume. indeed - that's T4's normal opening hours Not a planned Xmas closure - imagine they've just lumped it in for some reason!?! Hopefully some daft tourist who heard that the underground will run all night and plans to go straight from the fireworks to T4 for his flight on Saturday will have read the leaflet!
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Post by hollywood on Dec 1, 2010 20:00:51 GMT
The TfL site this morning did report the Overground 'Suspended Dalston Junction to West Croydon/Crystal Palace' so your morning news was just parroting the source. Presumably they, and the rest of the public, should have been able to infer that since TfL did not report 'Suspended Dalston Juction to New Cross/Crystal Palace/West Croydon' that a Dalston to New Cross service was running--even though the entire ELL was highlighted on the disruption map! I often think that the person responsible for TfL's 'Service Update Now' page believes we can read his/her mind.
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