WTT 70 & Hainault to Woodford Shuttle

For the avoidance of doubt this *is* an old map. The Central is particularly notorious for out of date enamel maps.

Ah, fair enough. I thought it might be a new map made preemptively that was supposed to be hidden behind a temporary patch or similar!

And you're right. Lots of old maps around the Central Line, even on some of the trains. Plus the Westbound map at Mile End which misspells Hanger Lane as Hangar Lane.

I doubt they will spend any money updating the maps, especially as the reintroduction of the shuttle isn’t intended to be a permanent change.

After the "heavy overhaul" is finished we'll be back to all 8-car trains with Woodford via Hainaults going through Zone 1 because its a more efficient use of available rolling stock and train crew.  It also offers Wood Lane greater flexibility when things go wrong.

I've heard two years

Thanks all.....2023; by then the worthy Chigwellians will have got used to half-length trains! By then, LU may have got round to stabilising the cuttings and embankments, the lack of action on which was raised by irate residents  at the last Epping Forest counci lmeeting.

Very much doubt it will be 5 years... Also, anything can be uncoupled, even the s stock gets regularly 'somewhat' split.

2030s was what I heard, the Piccadilly and Bakerloo will get theirs first.

From what I heard, electrically, they were ruined. Phantom electrical draws everywhere. Hopefully the 92TS don't end up the same way, otherwise it could be a bad few years for the train maintainers.

A rejected title for the first one with Jar Jar Binks?

It's called 'leakage' in normal electrical terms.
To isolate it, you turn everything off, put the ammeter in circuit, then pull out the fuses one at a time until the current ceases to flow.
The leakage is in that last circuit.

Slightly fuller details emerging, much already revealed in parts:

A draft has been around for sometime, final version not due for release until 1 month before introduction, doubt it’ll be on website until introduction date 26 January.

Plenty of people were grumbling on Twitter that the shuttles would be on Platform 2, they'd have to scurry over to Platform 1 for the next WB train, by the time they got there the train would have left and they'd have to scurry back to Plat 3.  Platform 1 makes a lot more sense (until the lift breaks down).

Woodford is going to be hell in the morning, better to go to Hainault where at least the trains will be starting out empty rather than already full of passengers from Epping-Buckhurst Hill.