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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2006 18:22:18 GMT
hi all anyone been out driveing or traveling today, whats it beenlike out their with the district line suspended between Earls Court and Whitechapel and the circle line slosed and with the northern line double works going on at the same time. i decided to stay at home much safer with the bottom half of the citys lines mostly closed so whats been everyones experiences of the day and the services on offer today.
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Post by JR 15secs on Nov 19, 2006 18:38:00 GMT
Watch the morning I've been told the work is 3 hrs behind so they will have to down scope the work if they want to hand back for the morning.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2006 18:49:39 GMT
The services to and from Richmond and Ealing Broadway to HSK were empty east of Hammersmith, as usual; most of the traffic at Earl's Court consisted of people heading for the Piccadilly Line, with the remainder stuffing themselves into the Wimblewares to switch to the Central Line at Notting Hill Gate.
The Victoria Line was coping, but barely; see my thread elsewhere. The Piccadilly and Jubilee Lines were busier than normal for a weekend, but not overly so.
As for the eastern shuttle between Whitechapel and Upminster, it was full but not full and standing.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2006 18:56:32 GMT
Well Yesterday The Piccadilly Line was Jam Packed! Especially if you were at Green Park, Massive Crowd getting to the Piccadilly Line Platform. At South Kensington , There were fencing to prevent people going near the Battery Loco >> Battery L54 at South Kensington << At Gloucester Road, lots of people packing into the lifts, but the Picc platforms seems Jolly empty! That didn't help with the Chelsea Supporters adding in! |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2006 19:25:07 GMT
I had to get from Earls Court to Victoria at around 5:30pm and it was terrible! Picc wasn't too bad, but it was third time lucky to squeeze onto the Vic at Green Park. The combination of Northern Line passengers going to Stockwell with District line passengers getting to Victoria was not good!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2006 21:53:29 GMT
Watch the morning I've been told the work is 3 hrs behind so they will have to down scope the work if they want to hand back for the morning. Indeed ..I am aware that Replacement Buses have already been contracted for operation in the morning !! |
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Post by Tubeboy on Nov 19, 2006 21:58:15 GMT
BBMS said about 1900, that there is a good chance it will not start until 0800.
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Post by Colin on Nov 20, 2006 7:48:06 GMT
Oh dear - it's 0750 and this is still on TfL's website:
DISTRICT LINE: Suspended between Whitechapel and Mansion House due to late finish of engineering works.
Message received 03:27am
CIRCLE LINE: Suspended due to late finish of engineering works.
Message received 03:28am
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Post by Dstock7080 on Nov 20, 2006 15:34:20 GMT
Eventually started rolling between Mansion House & Whitechapel at about 07.35.
Tower Hill bay road is out of commission as it is being used to store several road/rail vehicles used over the weekend. Guess they didn't have the time available to run back to South Kensington?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2006 17:35:06 GMT
Tower Hill will be out of use until close of traffic today (Monday). If you've ever wanted to get a close look at some rail plant, nows your chance!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2006 20:11:15 GMT
And the same again today, those vehicles are still in the bay.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2006 22:30:02 GMT
apprently the HMRI turned up on sunday night and condemmed some machines perhaps these are what are at tower hill?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2006 23:13:05 GMT
Er.... say what?
How on earth would HMRI suddenly decide to turn up and condemn engineering equipment?!?
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Post by Colin on Nov 22, 2006 2:51:24 GMT
Here's a pic I took on monday evening, whilst passing with an eastbound train. Unfortunately the temporary lighting at Tower Hill doesn't lend itself well to photography, and my train blocked the view being on a curve - but it at least gives you the idea...  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2006 8:27:53 GMT
im just going on what we heard monday night from my manager
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Post by Phil on Nov 22, 2006 9:15:33 GMT
How on earth would HMRI suddenly decide to turn up and condemn engineering equipment?!? They wouldn't - unless some concerned employee 'tipped them the wink' that they were unsafe to run.......... And having seen the state of some of the engineering trolleys etc. and the number of (fatal) accidents there have been in the recent years, I'm not at all surprised. Spending any money on maintaining on-track plant just does not feature in the bean-counters' plan. |
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Post by TMBA on Nov 22, 2006 12:18:47 GMT
The Engineering vehicles have now been removed from Tower Hill.
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