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Post by Chris M on Oct 4, 2007 20:31:51 GMT
According to the live travel news at the moment, the District is suspended between Earl's Court and Olympia due to a signal failure at Olympia.
Will the Earl's Court - HSK portion of the usual service be suspended as well, or will the trains be reversing at Earl's Court or diverted elsewhere?
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Post by c5 on Oct 4, 2007 21:36:11 GMT
I would imagine that the Olympia Shuttle service is either being left at High Street or sent back to stable early. There is no real benefit of running a train from High St to Earls Court.
The service has just resumed though!
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Post by chrish on Oct 4, 2007 22:25:06 GMT
Not only is there no benefit of running a service from HSK to Earls Court, there is also no way of doing it! Its not possible to reverse trains West to East in that way at Earls Court. From HSK, you enter platform 4 at Earls Court which has no reversing moves at all. The closest you could come would be to reverse at Parsons Green, but again.. what would really be the benefit.
What probably happened is one got stuck up at Olympia by the failure, and the other went to Richmond/Ealing/Wimbledon to plug gaps. Failing that it sat up at HSK as you say!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2007 23:43:30 GMT
They do all sorts of things in these circumstances ! They won't keep running it, for the reasons outlined.
Usually one may stay at High Street and one stable at Parsons Green. However they have been known to pack one off out of the way for a bit often with a run to Plaistow.
If it happens late on, 152, the Upminster stabler, will probably be sent to Upminster early.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2007 16:37:00 GMT
this was caused by BW track failing but this was because WB7.28 trainstop was not coming to the ON position (fully up) the cause was a faulty valve which operates the trainstop but because of the nature of the failure 8's points were lying the wrong way so the train was stuck at WB5b (outside reception road of lillie bridge depot) for approx 40mins whilst we got access and walked round to lillie bridge but once found the fault it was easily rectified with a equipment change what took the longest was arranging protection
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