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Post by mateusz180 on Oct 22, 2021 16:54:55 GMT
What is the closure for this weekend?
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Post by Dstock7080 on Oct 22, 2021 17:40:00 GMT
What is the closure for this weekend? |
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Post by mateusz180 on Oct 22, 2021 22:49:19 GMT
What is the closure for this weekend? Ah ok, so maybe if this finish earlier like last few times, It may run? |
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Post by Tom on Oct 22, 2021 23:54:23 GMT
No; this is testing, not commissioning. The line will remain closed all weekend.
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Post by DWS on Oct 25, 2021 6:49:42 GMT
No; this is testing, not commissioning. The line will remain closed all weekend. Now this is in the past can we know what was actually done over this weekend, ie did test trains run between Stepney Green and Upminster ? |
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Post by Colin on Oct 25, 2021 7:58:19 GMT
From what I saw at Upminster (I was spare both days), the testing mostly involved an engineers train.
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Post by Chris M on Oct 25, 2021 8:50:40 GMT
When I came through Barking on c2c about 1pm on Sunday there was an S stock in platform 6 with the doors enabled. There were about 5 people in hi vis jackets sat in the easternmost car not doing anything obvious.
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Post by Tom on Oct 25, 2021 10:02:17 GMT
There was system testing between Upminster and Mile End (not Stepney Green because VCC3 was still operating a revenue service). Tests were undertaken using both S7 and S8 trains and an Engineer's train. A lot of the testing involved the transition into CBTC at Upminster and various moves around the Barking Sidings area.
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Post by DWS on Oct 26, 2021 12:23:28 GMT
There was system testing between Upminster and Mile End (not Stepney Green because VCC3 was still operating a revenue service). Tests were undertaken using both S7 and S8 trains and an Engineer's train. A lot of the testing involved the transition into CBTC at Upminster and various moves around the Barking Sidings area. How did test trains that arrived on the westbound at Mile End station on the District Line get back on to the eastbound line to return to Barking or Upminster ? |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2021 15:04:15 GMT
Either they reversed at West Ham or they went upto Whitechapel.
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Post by DWS on Oct 26, 2021 16:48:35 GMT
Either they reversed at West Ham or they went upto Whitechapel. If they didn’t go to Whitechapel to reverse west to east, the only other way would have been to travel wrong road to West Ham and go via the siding/loop to regain the eastbound line. |
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Post by Tom on Oct 26, 2021 20:10:34 GMT
They reversed at Whitechapel. At Mile End the tripcocks were cut back in (and the tripcock latch relays on the train were forced to switch over) so the train could enter the CBTC system again in the correct mode at Stepney Green.
They then worked to/from Whitechapel to reverse in CTBC, before switching back to tripcock at Stepney Green and re-entering CBTC at Mile End.
On Sunday, there was no testing West of West Ham and all trains reversed there.
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