Jubilee line reliability worries

And it's still closed 5 hours later!!!!

I am going on the Jubilee line in 2 weeks time when i come down to London i hope its reliable then I don't want to be stuck in tunnels for 2 hours! I am not sure why there is so many faulty trains and signaling system failures? Hardly any other underground lines have this so why is it consistently the Jubilee line the Northern line line trains never break down! I have never seen a status saying severe delays due to a faulty train yet! I blame wear and tear for increased failure rates!

that's why its odd that line should reopened sooner - unlike Other places - in DC - metro trains can single track around broken train and new york has 4 tracks which trains can skip broken train at station

this morning - jubbiee line is back in service full line again

I do not understand what is wrong with certain officials in tfl. If they were able to walk passengers out via the track then why the ++++ didnt they do it four hours earlier??

Is all the talk in the staff lunch place here at Canary Wharf once again, as well as in our overseas offices - all of their own Metros seem to have worked without a problem for years.

You would not believe how fed up people - same people affected yesterday and today - have become about this, and they feel that the management not understanding how fed up the passengers are is a major part of the problem. For the people actually running the stations and trains though - which I think is many people here - , you would however be surprised how much you have all gone up in everybodys understanding since that television programme about life on the underground last month.

There must be a major fault with the fleet if trains are continuing to fail today it says Minor delays due to earlier faulty trains at Canada Water. People say the Central line is unreliable but how often do you see that in the news that people have been stuck for hours. Is poor maintance to blame or ATO driving styles? Its funny since TBTC started things have got worse when I used the Jubilee line when it first opened it was so much more reliable then!

You must have been 4 at most, jardine, even if you are talking about the extension..

I am rather surprised at the lack of discussion of last night's Jubilee Line catastrophe on the message boards. As a layperson I struggle to understand :
(a) how a tube train can "stall" - if this was the cause of the problem
(b) why the problem cannot be easily resolved
(c) why - according to press reports which I accept may not always be reliable - the driver did not give sufficient information to passengers - surely one of a train operator's main roles in these circumstances is to inform and reassure passengers at regular intervals ?
(d) if the driver was not being told by line controllers what was happening, why this was so ?
(d) what plan is in effect to rescue passengers in these circumstances ?
(e) what are the time limits for initiating a rescue plan ?
(f) why - according to press reports - the plan to push the failed train towards the next station failed because of the tunnel gradient - surely the gradient and likely success of this will be known to line controllers ??

I appreciate that - given the Jubilee Line's appaulling track record - some of these issues may have been debated in the past, so if anyone can point me in the direction of previous threads I would be grateful.

I am not meaning to be unnecessarily critical, just to understand why such a problem cannot be dealt with efficiently.

I thought after other serious incidents with passengers being held in tunnels in the heat for hours and hours and needing the ambulance service to treat heat exhausted passengers etc., that detrainments now happen after half an hour.

Main line burst I heard! Many a rumors!

And 2500 passengers involved not 800 surely?

No change there then !! It's never been any different during a "biggie".

You see, it's that CTC signalling that no-one liked apart form Morkill. ;D ;D ;D ;D