s stocks in the snow.

Severe delays are occurring due to adverse weather conditions.

23.17

met line.

Just seen two s stocks rumble through M P on the local lines.

There seems to be no reluctance to send S stock to Chesham this morning. The 0855 departure was S stock and seems to have rejoined the main at Chalfont OK. If an S stock did get stuck yesterday, can anyone say positively that an A stock wouldn't have done?
Given the conditions, where the conductor rail was already at or below 0C when the snow started, the critical factor would have been whether de-icing fluid was being deployed by the booked and maybe additional, de-icing paths. That is equally important to all LUL fleets. There are more de-icers in the S8 fleet than there ever were in the A stock fleet.
The Chesham branch is perhaps more vulnerable, due to its geography and weather. Also there are only 2 trains each way per hour. Arguably, an 8 car train is less likely to get stuck than a 4 car, as it has more collector shoes.

Certainly are some big gaps this morning but more trains seem to be out now. The next one to Chesham is S stock too.
But SE England is still poor at all this isn't it. Glad I wasn't on the M40 or M25 last night.

Did a few things in the snow yesterday, but no Met. C and D stocks were really struggling for traction out of Bow Road, on the gradient!

Not when I was using them. I think there was a actually a points/signal problem around Wembley Park. The SS at Finchley Road was ready to throw in the towel-poor bloke!

So many trains got stalled in the snow including the Capitalstars and the 96ts.

the early trains remain the worst ones. 21009/10 also.

The adverse weather caused national problems. Not saying it's right, but most of the country - road, rail, air - ground to a complete standstill.

The S-stocks out and about performed more or less as expected, and better on the whole than A-stocks. There is one issue. They have a running mode which is designed to keep them moving in the worst weather. However this does degrade both their speed and their performance in other areas.

The (non-weather) delays experienced are, unfortunately, a symptom of running full services at the weekend. We simply do not have a robust level of train staff at the weekend as efforts are focused on weekday running. It has been this way for some years now, and shows no sign of being properly addressed.

Yes last Sunday afternoon I was passing through Baker Street when the Station Control announced that both the 1619 and 1626 Uxbridge services were cancelled due to the non-availability of train operators. It reminded me somewhat of the mid 70's.

The 1619 cant have been cancelled, im sure I was on it home! Got into Eastcote around 1650, so infact it must be it