Planned Stabling at Lillie Bridge

Is this planned relocation of stabling all to do with the accommodation of the deliveries of the new S Stock. A re jig of stabling needed to accommodate A Stock displaced from Neasden Depot?

It is indeed the one near West Ken..and unless things have changed it is accessible still from the Eastbound District at West Ken via a connection. There is or was a trailing crossover from the EB to the Westbound that used to be used by certain early morning Piccadilly trains. There is also a connection into the Olympia branch before it goes into the single line section.
Tubeprune's page has a diagram (which I commented on some time back directly with him):

www.tubeprune.com/route%20and%20track%20diagrams.html

I thought the first line to get the new S Stock was the Met rather than the other SSR lines.Why move stock about that run on lines that aren't immediately about about to get the new S Stock?

We know that there will be 13 more trains on the system when the S Stock is all delivered. As they're getting longer trains, they've already lost 13 existing stablng spaces, making 26 required in all. The 13 they lose are: 3 at Farringdon, 5 at Hammersmith, 2 at Triangle, 2 at Edgware Road, 1 at PG. I estimate that they could get 4 more in Neasden, 1 at Uxbridge, 1 more in Barking, 3 at Ealing Common, 3 Upminster, 10 Lillie Bridge, 1 in Moorgate, 1 at Edgware Rd Platform and 2 in Acton Town sidings. Other solutions (and there are others) would probably cost more. Anyone want to offer me odds?

Dave,

Will the cabin shunters be the existing Tube Lines Transplant ones do you know?

To the best of my knowledge they will be.

I'm working closely with CMO Fleet's trainers to agree all the procedures and radio protocols for the depot and all the stuff we are agreeing will be the same for both the Depot and Operational staff so we're all working to the same plan!

Thanks for the info Dave.

So the option of anything at South Harrow has been ruled out, if ever considered?

4 Piccadilly Line trains start & stable at South Harrow sidings ever day/night

I'm happy to stand corrected - thank you DWS.

Sorry, i can't see how they would get turned by entering from Olympia and exiting via West Ken?

Oh yeah!

The sidings at Farringdon are only long enough for 6-car C Stock length trains and even then they are very tight. They will never get a 7-car S Stock in there unless they do some serious civil engineering.

And they will have the room to provide sidings on the formation of the former Thameslink tracks. The location seems easier than many of the other proposed sites for the extra length needed, even if is not so convenient for planned services.

Lillie Bridge has been well documented here as a future stabling point.

Farringdon may be brought back at some point in the precedings with just one siding that is slewed to give extra length.

Edgware Road is likely to be a similar story to Farringdon.
As for platform stabling at Edgware Road, 2 things need to be considered. Firstly, filling all platforms is unwise, because should you encounter problems first thing in the morning, the whole area is lost until the stabled trains can be moved. Secondly, given that the signalling is tied quite tightly to 6-car lengths at present, serious work is going to be needed to allow 7-cars to berth during the normal traffic day - let alone properly berth overnight clear of the through lines.

The ex-Thameslink lines from beyond Farringdon to Moorgate have not been ruled out as being brought into use as sidings (in fact I think the plans are very much alive. On their own they could easily hold 8 or more trains - which pretty much solves the bulk of the stabling overflow.

Amersham Sidings have also been rumoured - but obviously additional security measures are needed to be put in there, to prevent a new paint job being done each night.

Neasden depot is probably out of the question for any "H&C" stabling, as finding room for the "Met" stabling is proving enough of a task. It doesn't look like the Jubilee will be kicked out in the foreseeable future.