TBTC Testing

Legally though, the amber on the road is more restrictive than that, as it means stop unless it is not safe to do so or you are already over the stop line. Of course, this gets heavily abused and many people now seem to consider that it is just a warning. The amber is also used as a warning that the lights are about to go green, either when it appears along with the red, or at pedestrian crossings to warn that pedestrians may still be there.

We initially suspended Stratford – Green Park after a train became defective at North Greenwich Platform 1. After we lost this road, trains began to run via Platform 2, only for the second departure to stall between North Greenwich and Canary Wharf.

Can't really go into any more details, but it has been established that there may be a defect in the loop in the NGW – CWF area as trains have been having problems departing WB or developing problems after leaving for Canary Wharf on a day-to-day basis. NGW have also lost use of the RTDIs since Thursday and this may indicate the same root cause. We're waiting for somebody to get back to us about it, though a whole bunch of Thales guys and Tube Lines TOs did turn up to have a walkabout.

What's all this 'Tube Lines' nonsense?

Surely they are no more??? ;D ;D ;D

I have two questions.

1) When the new platform at Stratford comes into fore, will Willesden Green/West Hampstead/Wembley Park reversers end?
2) What is the speed limit on the line under ATO? I remember reading on here that the JLE has no speed limits... Whats the speed limit on the JLE now?

It's pronounced Tallis, or Tarlis (I've heard both used).

Once again as a non regular tube user, I am behind the trend. But I took the Jub for the first time since TBTC has been introduced. I have to say I was very impressed. I travelled from Southwark to Bond Street. Southwark to Waterloo was a little of the heavy acceleration then cruise (jerky effect) that has been mentioned. I have to say I found it a little ironic as it's probably the shortest distance between two stations on the Jub. After that the acceleration and so average speed was ratcheted up and the ride became very smooth. I was particularly impressed with Westminster to Green Park and then Green Park to Bond Street.The journey was so much improved, I was 5 minutes earlier than I had wanted. Now for a journey that prior to TBTC took me about 15 minutes tops when a 'good service' was in operation during rush hour, that is very good going!

While it's taken a long time to arrive and the service isn't fully operational, am thinking this bodes well for Jub and Northern line passengers.

I wouldn't say it's "chaotic".

TFL can't say there are delays because of a signal failure because there are no more signals on most of the line hence "signal systems failure".

I believe this term will become more significantly used.

And even since the new signalling has been introduced on the majority of the line, I feel as if there have been less delays. With the old system, a signal failure seemed to be a daily occurrence.

So this system doesn't have light bulbs then? That's sure a good thing. Having a line brought down because a bulb has blown is too glass jaw to be funny.

Hopefully, this is just teething trouble. Remember the bathtub curve. And hopefully, the system doesn't run on Windows Server 2008.

How warped

There is some value to extensibility though. I'm not sure what that value would be to a railway line, but when it comes to managing an offshore installation, new bits are added and old bit are taken away all the time.

I see that following yet another complete breakdown on the Jubilee Line in the morning rush hour, Mayor Boris Johnson asked for a "complete report" from Commissioner Hendy on his desk by the end of the day.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12367400

I wonder if the "complete report" will do what TfL usually do, and say "Good Service" about all those times people were unable to even get into infrequent and overloaded trains?

Meanwhile, I was driving off to a business meeting yesterday, and at 09.00 Commissioner Hendy came on the car radio in what is apparently a regular appearence on one of the radio stations, and the subject of what was happening on the Jubilee Line came up, which was being reported on the travel news. Mr Hendy tried to say that it was just unfortunate that it had happened that morning and that things were all going well on the Jubilee Line - which someone who telephoned the radio programme then rebutted, and described the never-ending issues.

As someone who has seen the constant disruptions to morning business meetings at Canary Wharf since the New Year and the new signals, I just wonder how there can be this difference in view. It could be that the Commissioner is just trying to gloss over reality, which would be unacceptable. On the other hand it could be that as news of yet another breakdown is passed up the layers of management is is progressively sanitised at each stage, until what is described to him bears little relationship to what is going on - the "Good Service" syndrome, of course.

I do wonder what the report actually said in the end. If it lists all the occasions when things on the Jubilee Line have been badly disrupted over the last 12 months, I hope the printer in the TfL office has been loaded with plenty of paper.

Its doing worse than the Northern line at the moment! But I suppose any new computer based stuff is gona have problems at first. Anyone know how smoothly the Central line upgrade went?

Another morning, another faulty train...

Interesting snippet on the BBC Transport Blog today talking about the "inability to reverse" under the new system.

There's a number of different ways to read that, so is that really suggesting that Wrong Direction Movement isn't possible now?