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Post by jkwok678 on May 5, 2023 20:02:43 GMT
There's been a few times this year where especially on the weekend, there doesn't seem to be much of a recovery of service after an incident. The line would be on severe delay for the rest of the day, and there would only be Ealing Broadway trains through the central section and a North Acton shuttle to West Ruislip. Is there any reason for this?
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Post by superteacher on May 8, 2023 14:41:23 GMT
I have found that recovering from delays has definitely got worse over the years.
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Post by towerman on May 8, 2023 16:38:30 GMT
Think it’s being exacerbated by shortage of T/Ops.
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Post by Colin on May 8, 2023 18:59:06 GMT
There's been a few times this year where especially on the weekend, there doesn't seem to be much of a recovery of service after an incident. The line would be on severe delay for the rest of the day, and there would only be Ealing Broadway trains through the central section and a North Acton shuttle to West Ruislip. Is there any reason for this? It boils down to several elements and how they interact. 1) What sort of incident caused the initial problem 2) Where on the line and at what time of day it occurred 2) How far off book the service is 3) Availability of driver resource 4) The service control team running the railway at the time Some service control teams will default to an emergency timetable straight away (split the service into manageable shuttles each run by particular depots). This can be difficult to undo if it goes on for long enough - it's often easier to remain with it till the end of the traffic day than try to put the working timetable back in as the driver resource ends up all over the place. An incident at one end of the line will likely have much less impact than an incident in the central zone 1 area. Time of day can be important. If it occurs first thing, you can possibly get the railway back on book by reforming trains after early turn drivers finish their meal breaks. If an incident occurs late morning or around midday there won't be much that can be done till the late turn drivers start booking on. Most wheel stop incidents will lead to train cancellations - trains put away in sidings or depots. There's no point trying to run the full compliment of trains if the full railway isn't available. Whilst putting trains away can free up some driver resource, this also creates the opposite problem when these trains need to brought back out onto the railway as often a spare driver resource is needed to facilitate this and as has been well documented on this forum recently, some lines are struggling with driver availability. How an incident is initially responded to can have a big bearing on how the service recovery works out afterwards. Ultimately every incident is individual and the service recovery afterwards will be Individual too. There's never a one size fits all solution! |
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