Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2014 16:48:23 GMT
I changed off of a Woodford via Hainault train today and was waiting on the westbound through platform at Woodford for a Northolt. I saw it was 'held' at one point and seemed to be taking a little while in arriving. Finally I noticed the headlights reflecting off a train in the eastbound platform. I realised it was approaching very slowly. The reason soon became clear - the front of the train was covered in graffiti, I have never seen the like. Obviously the train arrived slowly in Coded, but in service. Hats off to whoever brought that in. Am I right in my surmise that it had to be brought in slowly because visibility was so obscured and the T/Op was obviously responsible for ensuring nobody had fallen onto the track, everything was safe within the platform, etc. and so it was necessary to go slowly when so little could be seen?
Anyway he brought it to a stop and opened up. Clearly, though, he had to give it up as a bad job and he decided to take the train out of service and get us off the train. There was already a train in 21 rd and he had the route to South Woodford. So that's where he went. I passed it again when I was approaching Leytonstone on the west as it was heading in service to Grange Hill via Woodford. Obviously there was a clear view out of the other end. So, would I be right in deducing that it was taken down to Leytonstone in Coded (presumably taken through the platforms at low speed) and reversed back to head into the depot at Grange Hill?
Well, first I wanna take my hat off to the T/Op who took it through with such poor visibility. But I also wonder if anyone knows more about the general procedure that would have been followed in this instance. I happened to overhear the T/Op explain to someone on the platform that he reckoned it had happened when he was reversing at Northolt. Obviously someone tagged the back of the train when the T/Op was on the front and then it ran through on the east no problem. I deduce from that (I could be wrong) that the train would have been reversed at Loughton (most ex-Northolts during the day reverse at Loughton, I believe), which is where the problem would have been noticed when the T/Op changed ends. What would have happened in that situation? Would it have been at the T/Ops discretion whether to keep it in service? I assume at Woodford he gave it up for a bad job, but I was surprised and impressed it got that far. So, does anyone know more than me? Thanks
Anyway he brought it to a stop and opened up. Clearly, though, he had to give it up as a bad job and he decided to take the train out of service and get us off the train. There was already a train in 21 rd and he had the route to South Woodford. So that's where he went. I passed it again when I was approaching Leytonstone on the west as it was heading in service to Grange Hill via Woodford. Obviously there was a clear view out of the other end. So, would I be right in deducing that it was taken down to Leytonstone in Coded (presumably taken through the platforms at low speed) and reversed back to head into the depot at Grange Hill?
Well, first I wanna take my hat off to the T/Op who took it through with such poor visibility. But I also wonder if anyone knows more about the general procedure that would have been followed in this instance. I happened to overhear the T/Op explain to someone on the platform that he reckoned it had happened when he was reversing at Northolt. Obviously someone tagged the back of the train when the T/Op was on the front and then it ran through on the east no problem. I deduce from that (I could be wrong) that the train would have been reversed at Loughton (most ex-Northolts during the day reverse at Loughton, I believe), which is where the problem would have been noticed when the T/Op changed ends. What would have happened in that situation? Would it have been at the T/Ops discretion whether to keep it in service? I assume at Woodford he gave it up for a bad job, but I was surprised and impressed it got that far. So, does anyone know more than me? Thanks
