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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2017 8:56:20 GMT
District line Part Closure 17th-18th June
On the weekend of the 17th-18th of June majority of the District lines western arteries will close from South Ken to Richmond/Acton Town aswell as Edgware Rd to Wimbledon and the Olympia branch. Some Piccadilly line services will run on the slow lines to serve intermediate stations between Acton Town and Hammersmith echoing the Christmas closures of 2013. One difference this time however is that the Piccadilly won't run into Ealing Bdwy. Clearly the scale of this closure has negated the use of other reversing points such as High St Ken, West Ken or Parsons Green etc. Does anyone know what kind of work will be undertaken during this closure? Many thanks, Martin
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2017 9:45:22 GMT
Earls Court is having 8a and 8b points converted to Surelocks don't know the rest of it
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2017 10:09:27 GMT
Earls Court is having 8a and 8b points converted to Surelocks don't know the rest of it @aetearlscourt, Thanks for the info. |
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Post by PiccNT on May 17, 2017 10:33:42 GMT
Sunday only, Network Rail Engineering Work Between Gunnersbury and Richmond
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Post by DWS on Jun 17, 2017 18:08:09 GMT
Track replacement works are taking place over the weekend.
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Post by uzairjubilee on Jun 17, 2017 21:23:22 GMT
This closure is a major PITA for me in Southfields!
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Post by paulsw2 on Jun 17, 2017 22:54:08 GMT
District line Part Closure 17th-18th June
On the weekend of the 17th-18th of June majority of the District lines western arteries will close from South Ken to Richmond/Acton Town aswell as Edgware Rd to Wimbledon and the Olympia branch. Some Piccadilly line services will run on the slow lines to serve intermediate stations between Acton Town and Hammersmith echoing the Christmas closures of 2013. One difference this time however is that the Piccadilly won't run into Ealing Bdwy which will be served by an isolated District line shuttle to/from Acton Town. Clearly the scale of this closure has negated the use of other reversing points such as High St Ken, West Ken or Parsons Green etc. Does anyone know what kind of work will be undertaken during this closure? Many thanks, Martin No shuttle between Acton - Ealing Broadway I believe as it would impact the Picc services running through Acton because of the various shunts needed |
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Post by MoreToJack on Jun 17, 2017 23:42:19 GMT
District line Part Closure 17th-18th June
On the weekend of the 17th-18th of June majority of the District lines western arteries will close from South Ken to Richmond/Acton Town aswell as Edgware Rd to Wimbledon and the Olympia branch. Some Piccadilly line services will run on the slow lines to serve intermediate stations between Acton Town and Hammersmith echoing the Christmas closures of 2013. One difference this time however is that the Piccadilly won't run into Ealing Bdwy which will be served by an isolated District line shuttle to/from Acton Town. Clearly the scale of this closure has negated the use of other reversing points such as High St Ken, West Ken or Parsons Green etc. Does anyone know what kind of work will be undertaken during this closure? Many thanks, Martin No shuttle between Acton - Ealing Broadway I believe as it would impact the Picc services running through Acton because of the various shunts needed Exactly this. When it's run previously it's caused far too many delays to the through service. It is a shame that pilot working cannot be introduced as it was a few years back (2014 iirc?) but there are union issues. Just as well there wasnt a District service in place, as there were a number of signalling issues at Acton today causing major headaches even just for the Piccadilly service that was running (including the trains diverted all stations down the local). |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2017 23:47:06 GMT
It was quite nice to have an opportunity to go over the trailing crossover at South Kensington before they take it up.
Also, I have to say, whoever drove me back from Sloane Square to Mile End knows how to handle an S Stock, beautiful driving.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2017 0:06:09 GMT
No shuttle between Acton - Ealing Broadway I believe as it would impact the Picc services running through Acton because of the various shunts needed Exactly this. When it's run previously it's caused far too many delays to the through service. It is a shame that pilot working cannot be introduced as it was a few years back (2014 iirc?) but there are union issues. Just as well there wasnt a District service in place, as there were a number of signalling issues at Acton today causing major headaches even just for the Piccadilly service that was running (including the trains diverted all stations down the local). Defective Trainstop and a set of points affected by the heat |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2017 7:42:04 GMT
District line Part Closure 17th-18th June
On the weekend of the 17th-18th of June majority of the District lines western arteries will close from South Ken to Richmond/Acton Town aswell as Edgware Rd to Wimbledon and the Olympia branch. Some Piccadilly line services will run on the slow lines to serve intermediate stations between Acton Town and Hammersmith echoing the Christmas closures of 2013. One difference this time however is that the Piccadilly won't run into Ealing Bdwy which will be served by an isolated District line shuttle to/from Acton Town. Clearly the scale of this closure has negated the use of other reversing points such as High St Ken, West Ken or Parsons Green etc. Does anyone know what kind of work will be undertaken during this closure? Many thanks, Martin No shuttle between Acton - Ealing Broadway I believe as it would impact the Picc services running through Acton because of the various shunts needed My bad, forgot the fact that the Tfl status page map is sometimes incapable of displaying the full extent of an affected line. |
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Post by crusty54 on Jun 18, 2017 16:37:42 GMT
Disgraceful lack of suitable announcements in the Blackfriars/Cannon Street area today regarding the absence of Circle Line trains to Liverpool Street and beyond.
Lots of people waiting on the platform for a train that will not come.
Station staff seem to be able to use whiteboards for anything but useful information on days like these.
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Post by spsmiler on Jun 19, 2017 20:30:16 GMT
This closure is a major PITA for me in Southfields! I feel sure that in BR days passengers were offered an alternative mainline service when the District was not running. Simon |
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Post by uzairjubilee on Jun 19, 2017 20:55:52 GMT
This closure is a major PITA for me in Southfields! I feel sure that in BR days passengers were offered an alternative mainline service when the District was not running. Simon Closest thing would be SWT from Wimbledon to CLJ and then Victoria line to Victoria. |
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Post by roythebus on Jun 20, 2017 23:08:47 GMT
BR sometimes ran a single line shuttle from Wimbledon to East Putney using the up line. this offered cross-platform interchange at EP for the District. I believe there's a photo of a 455 on such a duty on here, and I have personally driven that route as single line.
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Post by bassmike on Jun 21, 2017 13:20:34 GMT
Do you mean the B R train used the "district" platform at E P (as it theoretically could do ) or the Point pleasant up platform? Otherwise it would not be exactly cross platform interchange (down stairs and up again.
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Post by Dstock7080 on Jun 21, 2017 13:28:16 GMT
Do you mean the B R train used the "district" platform at E P (as it theoretically could do ) or the Point pleasant up platform? Otherwise it would not be exactly cross platform interchange (down stairs and up again. unless single-line working back to Wimbledon Park was employed, this can no longer be done. took this myself, 8 May 1983:  |
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Post by bassmike on Jun 21, 2017 13:44:58 GMT
I think it could be done at the time roythebus was talking about.
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Post by spsmiler on Jun 24, 2017 15:45:55 GMT
BR sometimes ran a single line shuttle from Wimbledon to East Putney using the up line. this offered cross-platform interchange at EP for the District. I believe there's a photo of a 455 on such a duty on here, and I have personally driven that route as single line. This is the solution that should have been adopted last weekend, albeit with the bus replacement shuttles rather than District Line train north of East Putney. Simon |
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Post by Dstock7080 on Jun 24, 2017 16:41:25 GMT
This is the solution that should have been adopted last weekend, albeit with the bus replacement shuttles rather than District Line train north of East Putney. Simon It is no longer possible to travel back from the UP National Rail platform to Wimbledon, as the emergency crossover was removed last Christmas. |
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Post by roythebus on Jun 27, 2017 8:31:39 GMT
There used to be a hand-worked emergency trailing crossover on the District side of East Putney. This was utilised to reverse the DR service. The DR trains used the "westbound/down" district platform to change ends and reverse.
The BR service used the "up" BR platform and used the trailing worked crossover to the south of the station to use the "down"/westbound track to run to Wimbledon. A second train was used on the service, usually passing at Revelstoke Road if they were both on time.
For those who don't remember the line in semaphore signal days, there were signal boxes at East Putney, Cromer Road, just south of the tunnel, Southfields, Revelstoke Road, Wimbledon Park and Wimbledon. The line was resignalled in 1971. The box at Revelstoke Road was taken out of service some time in the 1960s and the signals there converted to intermediate block signals.
I worked the very first District train into Wimbledon over the new layout and under the new colour light signalling back in 1971, the 05:08 empties from PG to Wimbledon which then formed the first e/b train to High Street if I remember correctly.
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Post by spsmiler on Jun 27, 2017 10:36:31 GMT
This is the solution that should have been adopted last weekend, albeit with the bus replacement shuttles rather than District Line train north of East Putney. Simon It is no longer possible to travel back from the UP National Rail platform to Wimbledon, as the emergency crossover was removed last Christmas. A very retrograde action, albeit typical of what is called an 'improvement' in present-day pc terminology, in my view. Simon |
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Post by 35b on Jun 27, 2017 16:57:37 GMT
There used to be a hand-worked emergency trailing crossover on the District side of East Putney. This was utilised to reverse the DR service. The DR trains used the "westbound/down" district platform to change ends and reverse. The BR service used the "up" BR platform and used the trailing worked crossover to the south of the station to use the "down"/westbound track to run to Wimbledon. A second train was used on the service, usually passing at Revelstoke Road if they were both on time. For those who don't remember the line in semaphore signal days, there were signal boxes at East Putney, Cromer Road, just south of the tunnel, Southfields, Revelstoke Road, Wimbledon Park and Wimbledon. The line was resignalled in 1971. The box at Revelstoke Road was taken out of service some time in the 1960s and the signals there converted to intermediate block signals. I worked the very first District train into Wimbledon over the new layout and under the new colour light signalling back in 1971, the 05:08 empties from PG to Wimbledon which then formed the first e/b train to High Street if I remember correctly. As an aside, where was the box at Revelstoke Road? I grew up near there after resignalling, and had no idea that a box had been there. |
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