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Post by astock5000 on Apr 9, 2009 22:00:30 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2009 21:02:50 GMT
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Post by uzairjubilee on Apr 17, 2009 21:30:22 GMT
I was on the Stratford branch on Tuesday. Pudding Mill Lane seems to have been extended from both sides.
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Post by uzairjubilee on Apr 17, 2009 21:32:57 GMT
There is one thing I do not understand.
When they say they are going to add one extra carriage, what do they actually mean?? At the moment, the DLR train have 2 units coupled together which I would call 2 carriages. What are they really going to add.
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Post by astock5000 on Apr 17, 2009 21:54:02 GMT
They will couple 3 units together (they will not be putting an extra section into each unit).
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Post by maxtube on Apr 18, 2009 21:38:41 GMT
When I first heard of 3-car trains, I thought the trains were getting shorter, counting 1 unit as 2 cars!
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Post by astock5000 on Apr 19, 2009 21:47:03 GMT
Pudding Mill Lane seems to have been extended from both sides. But they are only short platform extensions, and 3-car trains will also have to use SDO. This is because Pudding Mill Lane will have to be moved when crossrail is built. |
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2009 12:14:55 GMT
Just finished travelling from Limehosue to Canary Wharf. The Eastbound platform has been completly extended with only the new staircase and lift to be finised. The Westbound platform has a way to go, but it's getting there. Actually after all the gripes I've had with DLR over the last year, I think the quality of the stations, new trains and general service will be excellent when complete. Just a shame it took Taylor Woodrow from Sept-April (rainy period) to put a roof on Limehouse Station!  |
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Post by uzairjubilee on May 25, 2009 12:25:53 GMT
Just finished travelling from Limehosue to Canary Wharf. The Eastbound platform has been completly extended with only the new staircase and lift to be finised. The Westbound platform has a way to go, but it's getting there./ How is the progress of the WIQ - Canary Wharf flyunder? |
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2009 12:29:25 GMT
Looks pretty much ready to go. From what I've read on London Reconnections and Transport Brifing, it should be open and in general service from June. Not long now then ;D
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2009 12:31:32 GMT
Westferry - Canary Wharf line (avoiding West India Quay) commissioned 11.05.09 but not yet in regular service.
From the same date trains stop at the three-car mark at Bank platform 10 (departure) and West India Quay platform 3 (southbound). West India Quay platform 2 (northbound) stopping mark also altered from same date but hardly noticeable difference.
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Post by norbitonflyer on May 25, 2009 16:12:14 GMT
When I first heard of 3-car trains, I thought the trains were getting shorter, counting 1 unit as 2 cars! The DLR has always treated each articulated unit as a single car - hnce the numbering as e.g. 99A and 99B for the two body sections. |
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2009 17:22:35 GMT
I am fairly sure that the DLR still refer to their trains as "vehicles" (e.g. 1 vehicle, 2 vehicles etc) and not cars, units or whatever. I have seen official references to them as, for example, V85 or V22, etc.
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2009 20:22:23 GMT
Westferry - Canary Wharf line (avoiding West India Quay) commissioned 11.05.09 but not yet in regular service. Any idea when it will come into regular service? |
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Post by astock5000 on May 25, 2009 20:47:59 GMT
Westferry - Canary Wharf line (avoiding West India Quay) commissioned 11.05.09 but not yet in regular service. From the same date trains stop at the three-car mark at Bank platform 10 (departure) and West India Quay platform 3 (southbound). West India Quay platform 2 (northbound) stopping mark also altered from same date but hardly noticeable difference. I thought WIQ platform 2 was SB and platforms 3 and 4 were NB, and platform 1 was the one that was demolished so that the new flyunder could be built. If SB trains are stopping at the 3-car mark, does that mean the platform extensions there are finished? |
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2009 21:52:18 GMT
Oops - you're right - senior moment!
It should read -
From the same date trains stop at the three-car mark at Bank platform 10 (departure) and West India Quay platform 2 (southbound). West India Quay platform 3 (northbound) stopping mark also altered from same date but hardly noticeable difference.
As far as I know the 'extensions' on 2 and 3 are finished, but I haven't seen anything about platform 4 yet.
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Post by astock5000 on May 26, 2009 17:55:41 GMT
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Post by uzairjubilee on May 30, 2009 13:38:07 GMT
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Post by astock5000 on Jun 7, 2009 13:54:48 GMT
How much work has been done so far on the platform extensions at Blackwall and East India?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2009 21:19:19 GMT
Blackwall and East India have they been completed yet.
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Post by astock5000 on Jun 24, 2009 17:37:32 GMT
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Post by astock5000 on Jul 6, 2009 18:22:14 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2009 19:26:00 GMT
Apart from Limehouse and Westferry, all platform extensions are almost finished now. They've not even started Beckton, Prince Regent or Custom House yet.  |
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Post by Chris M on Jul 6, 2009 23:41:09 GMT
I can't remember if it's been mentioned on here or not, but at West India Quay southbound trains are using the new part of the platform at the southern end, with the original northern part marked as not yet in use except for access to the lift.
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Post by uzairjubilee on Jul 9, 2009 14:21:14 GMT
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Post by astock5000 on Jul 9, 2009 16:45:47 GMT
I think it is finished. I don't know why trains aren't using it yet (and when they do, it will only be in the peaks), but maybe it is only necessary once 3-car trains start running, as they will take longer to cross the old junction.
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Post by uzairjubilee on Jul 9, 2009 17:30:08 GMT
Yeh I think it's kind of weird that trains aren't using it yet. When I was at Canary Wharf, I came from got off from an ex Stratford train, and waited at Canary Wharf to see if a train would use the ramp. The points were still directed from platform 2 at WIQ, but then after like 5 minutes, they switched to the diveunder track, so that got me excited and I thought a train would use the diveunder, but then the points switched back and trains from Westferry were not using the diveunder  |
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Post by Chris M on Jul 9, 2009 19:17:07 GMT
I was at West India Quay at the weekend, and it seems like the rebuilt portion of the platform that is no longer a platform also looked complete but was still cordoned off. I wonder if they're just awaiting formal handoff or something?
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Post by astock5000 on Jul 9, 2009 19:33:46 GMT
I was at West India Quay at the weekend, and it seems like the rebuilt portion of the platform that is no longer a platform also looked complete but was still cordoned off. I wonder if they're just awaiting formal handoff or something? It probably is something like that. Mudchute and Shadwell have been finished for several months now (there is even a 'trains do not stop past this point' sign at Shadwell), but they still have a barrier accross the platforms. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2009 19:35:40 GMT
London Reconnections reports that the grade separated delta junction was commissioned on 11 May. "Light News" (DLR's newsletter) says the fly-under will open later this summer.
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