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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2011 13:22:24 GMT
I have been up to London many times back end of last year to try to see all the stock. Three sets i have not seen in 10 plus visits to london, Could anyone please let me know if 96082,84,109 are running. Thanks for any help
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2011 14:46:40 GMT
082 and 109 were ex-Highgate after a derailment there and are still O/O/S at Stratford Market depot to be repaired. Won't be around for a while. Meanwhile 084 has been O/O/S since April 2008. Return to service is expected within a couple of months - maybe.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2011 14:51:14 GMT
Highgate? The Jub goes nowhere near there!
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Post by DWS on Feb 26, 2011 14:54:31 GMT
082 and 109 were ex-Highgate after a derailment there and are still O/O/S at Stratford Market depot to be repaired. Won't be around for a while. Meanwhile 084 has been O/O/S since April 2008. Return to service is expected within a couple of months - maybe. Any reason that 96084 has been out of service for so long ? |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2011 14:56:21 GMT
Highgate Test Track, for TBTC etc testing, which is where 091 and 092 are at present, which I forgot to mention!!
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Post by DWS on Feb 26, 2011 14:57:27 GMT
Highgate? The Jub goes nowhere near there! There is a Tube Lines test track at Highgate depot and Jubilee line trains have been taken to Highgate for TBTC testing. one train is there now. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2011 15:01:10 GMT
96084 - robbed for spare parts to keep others going. Most depots have (at least) one long-term-stopped unit (or their "Christmas Tree" as it's often called).
Incidentally, this was the reason that A60 unit 5036-6036-6037-5037 was 'stopped' on 19/7/77. 6036 never carried passengers again and is the Met's Sandite car, while 5036-6037-5037 were eventually reinstated and became (respectively) 5116-6117-5117 in 1992. 6116 in that unit is original.
** Admins - please move this last para to a new/different thread if you think appropriate. **
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2011 15:09:25 GMT
Highgate? The Jub goes nowhere near there! There is a Tube Lines test track at Highgate depot and Jubilee line trains have been taken to Highgate for TBTC testing. one train is there now. That makes sense now. Ta. |
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Post by metman on Feb 26, 2011 15:11:28 GMT
I'm surprised that spares are hard to come by so early in the stocks life. A few extra trains/cars were built 5 years ago, so I would have thought that a float of equipment could have been formed.
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Post by causton on Feb 26, 2011 19:51:44 GMT
Highgate? How do they get there?
I can only think they would go to the Met north of Baker Street -> Circle/H+C -> District -> Picc -> Northern, which is an incredibly long way!
Is there another rail connection or am I totally wrong in thinking they go via the Northern line?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2011 22:30:59 GMT
From what I recall, the units are split into a 3 and 4 car, and each bit is propelled by a pair of battery locos from Stratford to Ruislip, then Ruislip to Highgate over a series of nights.
They can't run as a complete unit under normal power as I believe the train shuts down with interference from signalling, or is that the other way around, signalling shuts down due to interference from the 96 stock traction packs?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2011 22:43:29 GMT
Don't think there's any reason why they couldn't go on the Northern under power though, there's similar on the 95ts.
It would be signalling being piddled with by the aux converters.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2011 23:15:05 GMT
Why is that these 'modern' stocks are very restricted?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2011 23:44:53 GMT
Stock does seem to be much more line-specific these days, so I guess that transfers during engineering hours, between battery locos, is the only feasible way of getting units to 'odd' places.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2011 0:57:38 GMT
I mean when it says all stock is cleared north of Finchley on the Met, this surely cant mean 95/96 stock and also 09 stock (if you somehow get that onto tripcocks)
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Post by Ben on Feb 27, 2011 20:25:05 GMT
The auxilliary converters on stocks are usually only cleared for the lines on which they work which is what makes it difficult. Interferance as mentioned with signalling. What I don't understand is why one standard type wasn't decided upon when the majority of stocks were refurbished, as before there seem to have been far less restrictions. Off topic though.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2011 20:45:42 GMT
That's because it was provided by motor generators(alternators) before!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2011 20:53:14 GMT
What the cause of the change?
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2011 20:33:14 GMT
Bumping this thread ! - 96084 seen moving in SMD yard for the first time in months (years?). Is it making a comeback for the new timetable (increased requirement for trains?)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2011 12:26:21 GMT
Any news on any of these in service yet
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2011 15:30:34 GMT
Saw 96082 & 96084 in service at West Hampstead on 07/07/11
and again at Finchley Road on 27/07/11.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2011 15:56:41 GMT
96084 released for service 9/6/11.
96082 released for service 14/6/11.
96109 still 'stopped' (derailment) as far as I know.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2011 23:32:34 GMT
96109 seen at Finchley Road on 17/08/2011 (coupled to 96062)
Bob Parsons.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2011 7:04:21 GMT
Thanks. Will get date.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2011 18:53:45 GMT
96109 released 29/7/11.
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