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Post by Geoffram on Aug 22, 2013 11:37:05 GMT
Arrived on to platform 5 heading southbound at about 1000 this morning (Thursday 22nd). By the time I arrived, there was a train in all three platforms, plus two waiting outside the station going north, and one in the tunnel behind them. So, things were unusually busy. We waited in our Soutbound Train, and then the Operator came on to the PA. He sounded embarrassed and was choosing his words very carefully. 'The signal man has, erm, made a mistake and, erm, now no trains can move until it has been sorted out'. So we waited about 5 minutes, and then we got the green and our train moved off. Ours was headed via Bank, and there seemed to be a gap behind it, creating quite a hole in the Charing Cross services. By the time I reached the office, the official version on the TfL website was 'severe delays caused by a faulty train at Golders Green'.
Anyone know what happened?
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Post by southfieldschris on Aug 23, 2013 13:39:55 GMT
No, I don't, but I can't shake off the expression, "A rose-red city, half as Golder's Green". Sorry...
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Post by londonstuff on Aug 23, 2013 13:47:25 GMT
From what I've heard the area became locked up because a route was cleared for a northbound train while also being cleared for a southbound train and it took a bit of time to sort out.
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Post by Geoffram on Aug 24, 2013 17:36:34 GMT
Thanks, londonstuff, that tallies with what the driver said, albeit in an inguarded moment.
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Post by Tubeboy on Aug 27, 2013 6:39:09 GMT
The service Manager's report states thnat due to a defective train at Edgware, and therefore a reduced number of platforms, a train was reversed at Golders Green, but there were crew shortages so services backed up behind the reversing train.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2013 6:46:18 GMT
Gonna guess a release was taken rendering all signals inoperable for 3 minutes, not unusual for a wrong signal to be lowered but somewhere like Golders it does cause all manner of madness
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Post by class411 on Sept 12, 2013 8:39:34 GMT
No, I don't, but I can't shake off the expression, "A rose-red city, half as Golder's Green". Sorry... I can't shake the lyric: "Finchley Central, is two and sixpence, from Golders Green, on the Northern Line". Which just strikes me as downright wrong. |
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Post by manorborn on Sept 12, 2013 8:54:51 GMT
No, I don't, but I can't shake off the expression, "A rose-red city, half as Golder's Green". Sorry... I can't shake the lyric: "Finchley Central, is two and sixpence, from Golders Green, on the Northern Line". Which just strikes me as downright wrong. But "Finchley Central, ten long stations, from Golders Green change at Camden Town" is, I believe, pretty well spot on. |
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