Boxing day service 2017

The points at the East End of Earls Court are being replaced so no service for sure

The delay in accurate information reaching all parts of the TfL website is that the engineering works were going to start on Boxing Day, but they have been extended to include 24 December, and so the issuing of the Sub-Surface Christmas and in particular the District has been delayed. The information should be fully available and correct from external TfL sources at 6 weeks before.
As far as I'm aware from 26-30 Dec and possibly also 24 Dec District is only running a South Kensington to Upminster shuttle at 5 minute intervals. Hammersmith & City Line is running as normal. No circles on the southern half of the circle, because there's no place to reverse them, so they reverse at Aldgate.
To fill in for the missing District service out west, the Piccadilly Uxbridge branch trains will be running on the locals (District tracks) west of Hammersmith to provide an every 10 minutes service as far as Acton Town. 
In other words the first link shown in the start of this thread was correct.

The service mentioned above (Upminster to Edgware Rd via Victoria) seems to be a copy of last year's Christmas service. This does not appear to be in operation this year, with no District west of South Ken and no Circle between Aldgate and Edgware Rd via Embankment and Victoria.

First link is correct; Duty sheets, working timetables, Duty books all published now, reflecting closure on Christmas Eve South Kensington-Ealing/Richmond/Olympia/WimbledonEdgware Road
5min service South Kensington-Upminster

Well I've just checked the 2 links and they currently show the correct information for Christmas Eve.

Conspicuous by its absence is information about replacement bus services for the District Line closures over the Christmas period.

Or is it that there wont be any?

OK, so people who live near Kew Gardens, Gunnersbury and West Brompton can catch Overground trains, but by-en-large its an absolute disaster for most Wimbledon branch passengers and Tramlink passengers who use the District Line to reach zone 1.


Many of these passengers choose the District Line because the fares are less expensive. Making them use SWR services from Wimbledon / Putney means that their travel costs will rise very significantly, especially if they need to go to work on days between Christmas and the New Year - when they will be hit by another whammy in the form of being charged weekday peak hour fares for a weekend service*. For some of these passengers their journey durations will also be very extended, especially if they live near one of the intermediate stations.

I assume that SWR wont be running a local stations passenger shuttle service between Wimbledon and East Putney. But I bet their normal passenger and ecs workings will still be running via that way.

*Only the railways can get away with this - its almost like a supermarket charging an inverse BOGOF - instead of 'buy one get one free' its 'buy one and be charged for two'. Ouch.

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edit to add: I am assuming that the District Line is not running a West Brompton - Wimbledon shuttle? I suppose that the WLL Overground service would be swamped if it did.

The track from Wimbledon pfm.5 towards East Putney is still out of commission following the recent derailment.

Due to the work at Earl’s Court the traction current section stretches to Putney Bridge, so limiting the service which could be provided.

Last year point work was also undertaken at Wimbledon platforms.

Oh, well I'm pleased to see that there will be a replacement bus service and that information about it is on display at stations.

It would have been even better if (at a minimum) the weekly TfL travel news had said to see posters at stations.

As already pointed out, SWR charge PAYG passengers higher fares than TfL. However at least for Travelcard passengers there is a happier story, as their fares will be unchanged.

Simon

I'm driving the Sullivan buses service from Hammersmith to Wimbledon late shift this week, so it ought to be running!

Last time we had this job there was a fatal accident at Hammersmith Broadway (not involving one of ours) that blocked the Broadway and we had to suspend the service for a few hours. Nothing could move anywhere.

A further update:

Do they work directly for TfL? Or is this part of a short or long term maintenance contract?

Unusual sight of a couple of battery locos on a ballast train at Wimbledon, near the derailment site, this morning. Presumably there to repair the junction.