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Post by oe on Nov 2, 2012 11:39:16 GMT
I was just wondering if there was a reason that only platform 1 was used this morning at Stanmore during the points failure. The route through the depot road (and checking it on CartoMetroLondon map confirms it) seems to indicate access to and from both platforms 1 & 2.
This restriction, even with stepping back, meant the service between Stanmore and Wembley Park was half what it could have been. Could anyone elucidate this laymans view.
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Post by Harsig on Nov 2, 2012 14:55:20 GMT
I was just wondering if there was a reason that only platform 1 was used this morning at Stanmore during the points failure. The route through the depot road (and checking it on CartoMetroLondon map confirms it) seems to indicate access to and from both platforms 1 & 2. This restriction, even with stepping back, meant the service between Stanmore and Wembley Park was half what it could have been. Could anyone elucidate this laymans view. All the information I have is that platforms 1 & 2 were used equally throughout this morning's failure. With all trains running to and from the platforms via the siding reception road for the most part northbound and southbound services alternated with a train in one of the platforms at Stanmore waiting the arrival of a northbound train in the other platform before departing south. At one point however one of the northbound services was routed, for whatever reason, into the sidings rather than the platforms. This meant that there were two consecutive southbound departures from the platforms without a corresponding northbound arrival. When the next northbound did arrive, by chance it was routed into the same platform (No 1) as had been used by the second southbound departure immediately beforehand, and if you were in the area at the time you may have been misled into believing that only platform 1 was being used. This would have been about 0720-0730. In practice I believe that the service level provided was about the best that could be achieved given that all trains had to make use of the single siding reception road, over which trains are speed restricted and which is signalled in such a way that a through route between Stanmore platforms and Canons Park cannot be set up in one go, meaning that all trains had to stop on the reception road while the remainder of their route was set up. |
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Post by oe on Nov 2, 2012 16:28:34 GMT
Is it too late to edit my O/P with the word appeared?
Yep I arrived at Stanmore at 07.31 and gleaned my info from someone on the platform (not staff).
However I must say that we were kept informed as what was happening throughout the delays.
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