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Post by superteacher on Jan 7, 2015 22:45:52 GMT
During a weekend in April, the line will be suspended between Queensway and North Acton. This will be a rare chance to do a bit of track bashing over the Queensway crossover. It's the only passenger move over a crossover that I haven't done on the Central.
But isn't it a bit odd to terminate the whole service at a station with only lifts? Despite the notices, there will be a lot of people who will have failed to take heed, and thus find themselves at Queensway. Will it cope!
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Post by North End on Jan 8, 2015 6:49:30 GMT
During a weekend in April, the line will be suspended between Queensway and North Acton. This will be a rare chance to do a bit of track bashing over the Queensway crossover. It's the only passenger move over a crossover that I haven't done on the Central. But isn't it a bit odd to terminate the whole service at a station with only lifts? Despite the notices, there will be a lot of people who will have failed to take heed, and thus find themselves at Queensway. Will it cope! Queenway was used recently during a prolonged 'one under' in the East Acton area, and it was definitely used as the use could clearly be seen on Trackernet. I haven't looked at the timetable for the weekend in question, however I'd suspect that some trains will also reverse at Marble Arch to spread the load. For those keen to cover the Queensway crossover, I'd suggest getting in there as early as possible, just in case a crowding issue develops, as the solution to that would probably be to tip out all trains at Marble Arch. |
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Post by hobbayne on Jan 8, 2015 10:18:06 GMT
Is this closure on the TFL website? I can only see the forthcoming engineering works up till Feb 2015 only.
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Post by sawb on Jan 8, 2015 12:45:47 GMT
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Post by hobbayne on Jan 9, 2015 9:37:47 GMT
I think they are double ending at LAG but I cant be positive coz the timetables not ready yet.
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Post by superteacher on Apr 18, 2015 16:59:27 GMT
Interesting was that there was only one lift in service at Queensway, which caused a lot of congestion. It took a good 10 mins to get out of the station.
The ATO was being a bit temperamental in terms of stopping the trains in the right place. A couple of trains pulled up short and thus had to be drawn forward to the stopping mark, which is in the tunnel.
One train seemed to overrun, because half of the front set of doors opened in the tunnel.
There is a very low speed limit over the crossover.
All in all, it's not hard to see why reversing at Queensway is rarely undertaken!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2015 17:02:15 GMT
In the case of my train it braked hard and late, but did manage, as far as I can tell, to hit the marks, seeing as only a very small amount of the doorway was in tunnel. Still good fun  |
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Post by superteacher on Apr 18, 2015 17:49:06 GMT
I think they are double ending at LAG but I cant be positive coz the timetables not ready yet. Only 2 out of every 5 trains went to Queensway, so there was no need for double ending or stepping back. Was a slightly strange service pattern today in that the Epping line service was better than the Hainault line. |
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