Picc to Uxbridge

I have no idea if this would be possible, but what about the Picc exchanging North Ealing to Uxbridge with the Central in exchange for the Central Line's service to Ealing Broadway.

Looking at a map of the area, I think the track configuration would be possible. I can't see a way to inergrate West Acton station into this proposal, unless you create a new branch of the H&C running Latimer Road - White City - West Acton - Ealing Broadway, sharing tracks with what is currently the Central Line but would be Central/Picc/not shared under my first proposal. This would require a new connection between the Central and H&C in the White City area, but it looks like it might be possible - although I don't know what the layout is going to be when they finish the redevelopment there.



Chris

The easy way to do it is give Ealing Broadway to the Picc and the District takes Uxbridge, as the track work is already there.

The difficulty for the District is that there would not be enough stock, until the plastic stuff arrives anyway. Mind you, this idea has been knocked around for quite a while now - who know's what the future will hold.

yes, 15 mph under bridges.

And that was only because track replacement and tamping have raised the track level just high enough to make surface stock trains a little nervous when passing under the bridges. If a line swap was to be done I suppose some remedial work would be needed to guarantee clearances.

As for swapping the lines, on the surface it would be simple - the Picc gets the use of Ealing Broadway, allowing it to divert trains away from that line towards Heathrow, while the users of the Harrow line get larger, more comfortable trains to take them into the city. The only issue, as already mentioned, is rolling stock allocations - if it were done right now, a serious drop in D stock diagrams to Richmond and Wimbledon would be required.

See the Hanger Lane Junction guide in my sig (although there is a scurrilous rumour that people on this forum have first hand experience of taking D stocks to South Harrow).

Presumably if the line swap happened, then there would be more Picc trains than they needed, as I presume any increase in stock required for T5 has already been sorted/is currently being sorted.

Would there be any problems than in the District taking on the surplus tube stock trains, perhaps using it on the shorter journeys? It would also give time for the remedial work on the clearances to be carried out. The driver's would need to learn the new stock, but they would also need to learn the new route to Uxbridge - presumably they would be taking on some staff from the Picc who know the route, at least initially, and they would only need to learn the route east of Barons Court.

on some cross-overs at Hanger lane there are 3 glass tubes hanging down, if a district train was to take this route it would smash the glass and activate something

There's a total of 75 six car D stock trains. We currently use 67 during the Mon-Fri peaks.


We also use 10 C stocks, which after recent events, is certainly not going to be increased.

The only other on the network is to stop the Met entering Jubilee tunnels.

So what about all the retardation controllers on every car of every item of rolling stock?

In any case the mercury is no hazard unless the glass IS broken (hopfully never)

Ye GODS is this H&S gone totally mad: I hate to think what they would have made of my (briefly) open baths of mercury when I was teaching

I think they'll have a heart attack ...