Weekend 3/4 July ?

3rd/4th July was a trial ops weekend with special signal diagrams issued for this wekend only.
Basically the system is working allbeit with plenty of "issues".
Next weekend (10th/11th July) is supposed to be the first weekend that the public will get to try it out.
It has to be said that this is a "maybe" as It has to be decided by LU and Tubelines/Thalys if the weekend just gone was a sucsess or not.
I would say if it goes ahead then dont use the section between Waterloo & Stratford if you are in a hurry!

'Issues' include:

- door failures on PED stations (PEDs and train doors refusing to open simultaneously, &c.)
- where the above has taken place, failure of the RTDI to illuminate
- after PTI is carried out and doors shut, no forward movement (sometimes after experiencing the above)
- at North Greenwich Platfoms 1 & 2 (an island platform), both RTDIs illuminating for each platform when a train departs from Platform 2, which can imply to station staff that a train on Platform 1 has been routed into the same road at the same time
- trains stalling across points in various places all over the shop...

I could go on. There was also something at Stratford that could've turned into a big broo-hah-hah a few weeks back at another trial ops. I'd really like to elaborate, but that'd open a big can of worms.

Also, from the drivers' point of view – they are all used to driving to exactly the target speed. So if it's 20, they'll be driving 20. Under TBTC, they find they have to keep about 5mph slower than the target speed because it's so sensitive that if you overspeed by 1mph you get the emergency brakes come on. A bit of a pain in the bum if you get this happening time after time.

Panic over!! A normal Saturday and Sunday service will operate this coming weekend.
Back to the drawing board for Tubelines me thinks!!