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Post by jardine01 on Apr 21, 2011 18:39:38 GMT
Does anybody know how reliable the 96 stock is compared to other tube stocks? Lately there has been many faulty trains on the Jubilee line, i guess to do with the TBTC?
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Post by younglulnerd on Apr 21, 2011 19:05:13 GMT
Yep, I presume teething problems. Hasn't really happened on the Jubilee as reguraly as it has recently, in my memory (which isn't too long or too good  ) |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2011 20:59:28 GMT
I think that it was a 'faulty train' that caused a shut-down east of London Bridge this evening.
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Post by North End on Apr 21, 2011 22:47:46 GMT
Does anybody know how reliable the 96 stock is compared to other tube stocks? Lately there has been many faulty trains on the Jubilee line, i guess to do with the TBTC? I can't comment on the 96 stock, but what I will say is the similar-but-not-identical 95 stock is generally adequately reliable. They suffer from minor problems, but generally it is very rare indeed for these trains to fail in a way which prevents them from moving completely. The one exception is when there's an earth of the traction current system, which causes the sensitive detection systems to identify a problem and shut down the traction equipment. (Having said that, a 95 stock did totally sit down at Finchley Central today, with two separate faults, it is not yet known if the 2nd fault was a consequence of the 1st - with any train, once you start getting into the territory of "double defects" then a long delay is guaranteed). |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2011 11:10:42 GMT
What sort of minor problems do 95ts suffer from?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2011 13:28:51 GMT
The words cab air con on the warnings and alarm list come to mind...
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Post by auxsetreq on Apr 27, 2011 14:32:37 GMT
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Post by jardine01 on Apr 27, 2011 19:12:40 GMT
I have been on many 1996 stocks in the past and they havent broken down on me yet. However the photo of the damaged bogie does look quite worrying!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2011 15:25:15 GMT
That's not really what I'd call a damaged bogie, just a broken shoebeam, which is considerably less dangerous. According to the article, it's because the shoe was ripped off, which is usually caused by damaged juice rails, which may or may not have been damaged by the same train, or possibly an earlier train. It's something that's likely to stop the service for a short while until they can fix things up enough to move the train without causing further damage. I imagine that since they have to discharge the traction current to deal with this anyway, they figured that they'd let the passengers walk to the station rather than wait on the train for an hour while it was repaired.
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Post by underground2010 on Apr 30, 2011 15:16:13 GMT
I was told by a friend of mine who worked for LU during his work experience on the Jubilee line, this was back when the trains were being introduced along with the extension that the stock had quite a few issues. Whether this was the case with all trains, I doubt it, but the one he rode on had quite a few problems. Before the line was being made ATO, I would of said the 96's were quite reliable, although they still had their problems, they weren't too bad. Now, I think the whole line as a whole has its issues  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2011 20:01:51 GMT
Sounds about right, When they were still pretty new (early 2000's) They did seem to have a tendancy to fail at least when I used the jubilee.
I have a memory from years ago sitting on a 96 and an alarm suddenly came on just before BAS with "Attention!" flashing up on the dot matrix screens and the driver announced that due to a defect it would go out of service. Infact I think that happened quite a few times!
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