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Post by goldenarrow on Sept 11, 2017 15:30:13 GMT
As most of you already know, due to the Ballast Track Renewals (BTR) and Blast to Slab Conversion (Acronym?) taking place on the Metropolitan line between Finchley Road and Baker Street, the Met has been closing early south of Wembley Park from 22:00 (dependant on location/direction) Mondays to Wednesdays as an attempt to mitigate the disruption caused to the majority of passengers.
However, the Mets closures have started getting hour specific. As an example of this, on Sunday 17th September, the Met will have it's regular weekday style closure with the full service operating between 09:30 and 20:30.
Now this type of "hour specific closure" is nothing new. Lines that run as part of the Night Tube regularly have this for obvious reasons and during the Christmas/New Year period large scale closures on the SSR have featured this. But I'd just like to ask members on this forum weather these hourly closures on the Met were always part of the plan or weather the works have been accelerated for other reasons.
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Post by howda62 on Sept 12, 2017 9:16:06 GMT
There were posters up yesterday saying that due to the Spurs match tomorrow evening, the early closing for Met work was being cancelled (or possibly for shorter hours - was in a rush and didn't read all the details). Perhaps the extra overnight work on Sunday morning/evening is to compensate for Wednesday?
When this long running Met work was planned I wonder how it was estimated how many times the work would be suspended due to Wembley events, and is Spurs using the ground for home matches having any impact on those estimates?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2017 16:52:53 GMT
The works are cancelled on Wednesday 13th September due to an event at Wembley
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Post by goldenarrow on Sept 12, 2017 17:38:46 GMT
There were posters up yesterday saying that due to the Spurs match tomorrow evening, the early closing for Met work was being cancelled (or possibly for shorter hours - was in a rush and didn't read all the details). Perhaps the extra overnight work on Sunday morning/evening is to compensate for Wednesday? When this long running Met work was planned I wonder how it was estimated how many times the work would be suspended due to Wembley events, and is Spurs using the ground for home matches having any impact on those estimates? , Great shout, Im not sure how mach slack was incorporated into this project, however a glance at the dates shows that the number of engineering hours more or less balances out with roughly 15-16 actual working hours on the Sunday closures compared with the combined 16-17 hours on Mondays to Wednesdays. Using "Late 2018" as a publicity target obviously allows more leeway/ambiguity on what is published publicly. Early closures will not take place on the following dates: - Wednesday 13 September 2017
- Tuesday 19 September 2017
- Wednesday 1 November 2017
- Wednesday 6 December 2017
- Wednesday 13 December 2017
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Post by Chris M on Sept 12, 2017 18:06:44 GMT
I'm sure someone in the planning department will have spoken to Wembley and asked them how many events they expected, and looked back on historical data too.
"Late 2018" is a good target as it gives about 4 months (September-December) flexibility without overrunning, and the projected date will be towards the start of that date I expect otherwise "Early 2019" would be the phrase used. If works go swimmingly then they can open as late as about August and make a big thing about finishing early.
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Post by scheduler on Sept 21, 2017 22:10:47 GMT
The programme was always going to be a long running one. However with local London teams taking temporary residence at Wembley for this season and last, there have been more than expected Wembley events on Mon to Wed evenings, so there will now be some weekends where the work will also take place in order to catch up.
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