S stock delivery & introduction - discussion

IIRC, there was one S7 Delivery this week, and no S8's went back up to Derby for modifications as (usually?) happens

That's very good news, the faster the C stock goes the happer I will be.

i have noticed that s8 stock trains between aldgate and finchely road seem to accelerate quite quickly at each stop, however, in the north west part of the metropolitan line they accelerate almost much slower! any reason for this? cant acceleration be upgraded now everywhere with no a stock about?

Would the Performance still be increased with those pesky C-Stocks in the way in the city? Anything as slow and poorly accelerating as a C when put in front of a S would cause a huge bunching in the service (I hope prjb doesn't see this!)

I'm NOT asking for dates of deliveries.

Will deliveries continue at the same rate as they have done over the last month?

I believe new deliveries of S Stock, presumably S7's, will be stabled around the various Depots, prior to introduction, including Northfields Depot on the Piccadilly Line. Is this due to the ongoing works at Ealing Common Depot east, making available space in the Depot at a premium?

I'm not very impressed by the quality of the tracklaying on LU. I compare it with riding on Japanese trains (urban as well as shinkansen bullet trains), where you actually have to look out of the window to get any sense of movement, the track is so well laid.

S7s seem to be more apparent on the H&C over the last few days.

Train this morning peak at Liverpool Street was in service without adverts

Yes, five of them when I passed at 8am this morning. Would be interesting to know what the arrangements are for changing them over with S7s at Hammersmith Depot in advance of the 19th May.
Not sure what arrangements will apply from the 19th May for storing S7s when Wembley Park Sidings becomes a scheduled stabling location for S7s.

Thank you for the information. I had wondered whether this would be the arrangement but thought it might present some problems if the Met driver wasn't there to take over from the H&C driver due to service disruption on the Met. Also, there is the need to take the train out of passenger service in Baker Street Pfm 2 which is not a normal arrangement these days.

I guess in my mind to mitigate the risk of delays, I perhaps thought S7 trains would come out of passenger service in Pfms 3 and 4 at Moorgate having worked passenger from Hammersmith and then be worked empty to Wembley Park Sidings from there by the Met driver.

I've made two journeys on the between Mile End and Kings X and I saw 2 S7s on both journeys (was on one for the first journey).

Services are indeed thinned out to Hammersmith in the 23:xx hour with no replacement, the 10min service from Barking is maintained including a later departure at 00:05 to Baker Street/Harrow.
Starters/stablers at Wembley will currently only be H&C trains, 4 Mon-Sat, 3 Sun.

Can anyone tell us the day of the timetable change,and will it involve S7s going on the circle?

19th of may and yes.