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Post by Tom on Jun 28, 2020 9:43:49 GMT
The signalling for White City used to show the extra pair of tracks many years after they were lifted. They even appeared on the new scale plan when White City was resignalled, years after they had been removed!
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Post by Tom on Jun 28, 2020 9:39:01 GMT
95/96 stock use a key which looks much like a yale, though it isnt. They are actually manufactured by Yale. The same key was used for all stocks from D stock until the arrival of 2009 Stock.
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Post by Tom on Jun 28, 2020 9:37:48 GMT
You still need a position switch key for certain functions (I'm not going to say which) on 1972 stock.
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Post by Tom on Jun 26, 2020 20:54:19 GMT
B Cannon Street C Blackfriars D Canons Park
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Post by Tom on Jun 22, 2020 14:50:17 GMT
At the risk of going off-topic, and also at the risk of sounding far older than I actually am, what is the 'Insights and Direction Team'? It's as bad as 'Customer Experience' on a job title, as seen on MTR Crossrail name badges.
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Post by Tom on Jun 19, 2020 20:14:23 GMT
B is between Turnham Green and Gunnersbury.
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Post by Tom on Jun 13, 2020 15:32:33 GMT
I think Chris M has hit the nail on the head. Cobourg Street, whilst not reused for anything, is no longer a working installation. The Piccadilly Line is, and shouldn't be full of redundant kit.
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Post by Tom on Jun 12, 2020 21:52:05 GMT
That's one of the problems with the suggestion to do a PICU on Parsons Green. The vital signalling is now sixty years old - twenty years longer than its design life. It has been rewired once already, and the outside cabling is in a poor condition - like many similar cables of the same vintage.
It's not logical to put it into the Griffin Rooms - it would then be an island rather than an integrated part of the Piccadilly line.
And yes- the Picc was relocated surprisingly cheaply - mainly because the PICU project made a very deliberate decision not to remove any of the equipment they made redundant, but instead leave that to the full Piccadilly Line Upgrade to resolve. Naturally that decision was made at a time before Emergency Budgets were even a remote possibility, but it means we have rooms often half-full of redundant equipment which will remain in situ for many more years to come.
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Post by Tom on Jun 12, 2020 8:46:03 GMT
That would be my view too, but remains to be seen.
As the boundary is mid-way between stations there probably would be a need to retain three existing signals to maintain signalling headway, but these could be retained as auto signals and monitored by CTBC.
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Post by Tom on Jun 11, 2020 17:47:03 GMT
Yes, only because the other train is not in a fit state to run so will be swapped under a concession. Issue with heights on the train. Yes, I was aware of the reason. Having the Senior Project Manager concerned in the same team has its advantages...
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Post by Tom on Jun 10, 2020 21:24:21 GMT
Someone on Twitter claiming that signal migration areas 10, 11 and 12 (that's everything west of Baron's Court and south of Fulham Broadway) has been cancelled as part of the emergency budget Anyone got any more info? Everything past SMA8 has been affected with the " Descope " West of Barons Court and Fulham Broadway (SMAs 10, 11 and 12) has been abandoned for the foreseeable future. My understanding is that work on the Met north of Preston Road is currently stopped with an intention to recommence in the second half of the current financial year; whether or not this happens remains to be seen.
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Post by Tom on Jun 10, 2020 21:21:34 GMT
I know fitment of the two D78 rail adhesion trains has been paused for the moment. That's partially Covid related - one of the trains was at Ruislip to be fitted when project work ceased. There is now a plan to arrange for the two trains to be swapped over at a suitable time to enable fitment of the the second D78 RAT first.
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Post by Tom on Jun 9, 2020 16:20:39 GMT
I understand that there has been a descope, and there is likely to be a go-slow on other areas of the project.
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Post by Tom on Jun 8, 2020 21:28:21 GMT
The vertical ones were usually subsurface, or the later gates if on a tube line. Moorgate and Green Park were both vertical.
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Post by Tom on Jun 7, 2020 23:42:18 GMT
I know signalling scale plans have been released under Freedom of Information requests in the past - but that's the most. I would be particularly reluctant for any more to be released.
That reminds me of a story when a delegation from Moscow Metro visited the LT (as it was then) signalling design offices in the 1980s. The host was told they could be shown anything - with the exception of any details related to floodgates.
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Post by Tom on Jun 6, 2020 17:45:14 GMT
It was a 305 during Steam on the Met 1989 I think?
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Post by Tom on Jun 6, 2020 14:11:05 GMT
All new schedules/timetables have been prepared and now available for the night tube lines. For some reason all night tube duties remain as scheduled on a Friday and Saturday so they will do nothing between close of traffic and start of traffic. Night Tube drivers are contracted to work Friday and Saturday nights only, they aren't required to work any other time but it's probably cheaper to let them sit there during engineering hours than run Night Tube There is little else they can do as contracted to work between 8.30pm and 8.30am and you can't change that.also at Arnos grove there is 7 less night tube duties Hopefully one post will address the comments all three of you have raised - the early start up on Sunday was a London COVID Transport Task Force travel demand management proposal, and requires a certain number of night duties at each depot, which in many cases is lower than the equivalent number with Night Tube operation. There is little that can be done to make these duties more efficient on Sunday Mornings without breaking an existing agreement or on Saturday nights without recasting all the Saturday duties, which will in turn have a consequential effect on Friday duties. Such a large change would need time to implement without excessive overtime working, which must also be taken into consideration in the current financial climate. It may not be perfect, but it's the best compromise right now. Putting my mod hat on - please bear in mind as suggested above that this forum is not just read by staff or enthusiasts but can be read by anybody. This could be the person who is compiling the amended duty schedule, a director, the Commissioner for Transport, or a politician. Please consider who might be reading your post and how they may interpret it, particularly if you are suggesting (as some have been) that TfL being wasteful.
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Post by Tom on Jun 5, 2020 10:36:25 GMT
I'd agree with johnlinford that A is Wood Lane, before it was opened up.
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Post by Tom on Jun 4, 2020 15:46:09 GMT
Some of us still have the DVD copy - I was using it the other day.
That controller's voice is familiar, too.
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Post by Tom on Jun 3, 2020 18:55:26 GMT
I think MoreToJack mentioned this above so apologies of this is repeating, but the vast majority of the merits of Night Tube operation could have been achieved by extending operating hours a bit each way on the days concerned. That was the plan in about 2006 - extended hours on Friday and Saturday nights. All the programme machine modifications were done and never used. I have to admit when I spent a week on nights at Heathrow last year I was surprised at how busy it was - when we finished the night's work we'd go up to Costa in Terminal 2 and it would be full of people on early morning flights who'd arrived on the last train.
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Post by Tom on Jun 2, 2020 16:05:22 GMT
Mod hat on... Yes, I noticed that the tone of the reply prior to mine wasn't quite what I would have wanted to read if I'd posted the question either. However...
As a general observation, not related specifically to this thread - more than ever we're living increasingly isolated and distant lives, and it affects different people in different ways. It may simply be that the rude, accusatory, or terse reply you get to a post was just someone having a bad day and we need to remember that it happens. Likewise, without the benefit of facial expressions and tone something meant quite innocuously can easily be misinterpreted and lead to people taking offence when no malice was intended.
Please try to bear this in mind when you post - we're all here because of a shared interest, after all.
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Post by Tom on Jun 1, 2020 20:32:45 GMT
The 75% discount is a misnomer. It's not like the privilege fares for pre-1996 staff (which were 25% of the regular full fare), it's a refund of 75% of the cost of a full-fare, annual season ticket which is reimbursed over ten pay periods - which you are taxed on.
In reality it works out at approximately 50% off, but it's only given on one ticket type and is only available for (some) permanent employees of TfL. Staff employed under certain Terms and Conditions are not eligible, nor are those employed by third parties (such as Capita) on TfL work.
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Post by Tom on Jun 1, 2020 8:43:43 GMT
I agree.
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Post by Tom on May 29, 2020 15:00:45 GMT
No. They were all transferred to Essen during 1991.
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Post by Tom on May 27, 2020 13:09:16 GMT
It's amazing how the walls are now on their third set of tiles in the last 44 years, yet the original ones on the walls lasted 72 years and are still on the ceilings without any issues.
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Post by Tom on May 27, 2020 13:01:39 GMT
Whatever it is, I would like our track maintenance guys to start working again as we have a line littered with 20mph TSR's (Temporary Speed Restrictions) and it's somewhat tedious. They're not not working. Priority is rightly being given to patrolling and urgent service affecting defects, and, just as control rooms and train crew depots are seeing reduced coverage through staff self-isolating, sick, or shielding, the maintenance areas are no different.
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Post by Tom on May 22, 2020 21:51:13 GMT
A looks like Aspen Way, looking towards Clove Crescent across the DLR between Blackwall and East India. B looks to me to be Plaistow. C is Birkbeck Street, Bethnal Green - looking to the Enfield lines between Bethnal Green and Cambridge Heath D is Campbell Road Substation as identified by @aetearlscourt.
They're all East London postcodes (E14, E13, E2 and E3 respectively), but I'm not sure what the next one in the sequence is.
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Post by Tom on May 21, 2020 16:35:26 GMT
The fourth rail was retained and bonded to one of the running rails to assist with traction current returns.
I note that the 1937 cable run is still in place, as are the 1904 ceiling tiles. I've not been on the line in a while, but if you were to take an LT scale plan for the line you could still see where all the blockjoints were - BR just removed them and welded the rails together.
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Post by Tom on May 21, 2020 16:33:38 GMT
I was wondering about a park, but more Regents Park.
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Post by Tom on May 19, 2020 18:46:43 GMT
I don't disagree - it's the old routine of having to 'play the game' and prove it doesn't work.
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