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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2012 19:22:08 GMT
So what happened at Baker Street on the evening of 10th April? Coming SB from Rickmansworth, the fast lines looked like a parking lot of out-of-service trains, the slow lines were at a crawl with everything terminating at Baker St or before.
I would put it down to run of the mill except the driver sounded particularly cheesed off, "what I can only describe as a massive signal failure at baker street".
Thanks for any info!
(Next stop - overground forum, a traffic jam of fright trains from wilsden jn to camden road earlier in the afternoon!)
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Post by castlebar on Apr 10, 2012 20:01:04 GMT
There have been MAJOR delays of 1 hour plus around Glasgow today too. But the fault has now been traced to a "signal cable".
One has to ask are things now being made over complicated with perhaps too many safety nets? Jumping out of a plane with 6 parachutes could become more dangerous than jumping out with 4 when only 1 needs to work, and please accept that I am attempting to make a serious point here. It's more complicated, yes, but is it any better/safer??
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Post by graeme186 on Apr 10, 2012 21:29:17 GMT
The Watford train I took home from Baker Street took some 50 minutes to travel on the Fast Line from the first signal north of Wembley Park to Harrow. This was because there were no driver reliefs available at Harrow for late running NB trains ahead, some of which must have been stuck in the City for an hour or so.
I understand the failure was at Baker Street Junction and that the problem was rectified at about 1745 only for the failure to re-occur shortly afterwards.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2012 22:00:04 GMT
Interestingly enough, me and a friend were at Baker Street shortly after it all went wrong and a C stock set arrived into Platform 2 of the Met line station.
It sat there for about 15-20 minutes then formed an empty train to Moorgate.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2012 12:54:07 GMT
Interestingly enough, me and a friend were at Baker Street shortly after it all went wrong and a C stock set arrived into Platform 2 of the Met line station. It sat there for about 15-20 minutes then formed an empty train to Moorgate. 242 did indeed come into platform 2 as that was the only route available. It then reversed empty to Moorgate to stable. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2012 18:59:24 GMT
It did indeed!  |
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