yet another bad day on the District Line

Considering you should have been in front of me and I passed you at South Ken ish, I wondered what they were going to do with you? ;D

Sorry, I didn't mean to commandeer your train earlier and make it mine, but my "suggestion" to the controller probably saved 10 mins and stopped a 30 min headway to Embankment!

I thought 'something' was going on in the Acton Town area as i had my Connect radio tuned listening to the Piccadilly Line. They were sending 'urgent' messages to trains in the Acton area asking them to 'stay there!' and approach with caution' - nothing over the District radio though!

Luckily i had (some) wits about me (after 5 visits to Ealing already!) to notice that both WL12^A and WL12^B had returned to danger in front of me when approaching Acton WB! I just managed to stop in time, on very wet rails. Timed 12.41 .

Upon observing, all the signals i could see started 'bobbing', then went out, then came back 'bobbing' and finally stayed constantly at danger.

After discussions with the DR Controller and the Earl's Court signalman, i was told to remain where i was.

Several calls to colleagues at Acton revealed that nothing was showing on TrackerNet for the area.

I was eventually called back to suggest i count up the passengers on the train while proceeding to the rear cab to prepare for 'wrong roading' back to Chiswick Park. The following train was already at the "X" signal behind and was in the course of being WDM'd back to Chiswick.

Just as all this was about to be done with my train the "all clear" was given and i proceeded normally WB at 13.29 !

I think they knew that the wrong roll was there.

Metronet never seem to get the correct rolls for special workings or rewind/forward them for Bank Holidays....

It then takes them many hours to fix it.

DL has crashed again tonight by the sound of it. She took the train to Romford instead and paid an arm and a leg. I'm using it tomorrow, so there's no chance of it working. If I was a driver, I would have smashed all the windows by now. Drivers must get more of this than passengers on the basis they're on the damn things more. The blood pressure, the blood pressure!!

Maybe - but you have to remember that all the D stock's were supplied by Parsons Green and Ealing Common only - would there be enough trains to operate your proposal?

Then there are the logistics of supplying enough drivers - you'd most likely need drivers to be taxi'd from the east end....

Yep - signal main lost (no power to the signals in laymens terms) Dagenham to Upney, both roads.

1405 to be precise - that was the time I arrived at Upney. By 1410 I was authorised past the starter by the SS and, after applying the rule at every signal up to Dagenham, eventually reached Upminster at 1510

So it's still going on now?

Just had word from the NOC, that the District will be suspended from Barking -Upminster from start of traffic due to engineering work at Upney.

Edit...Service resumed at 0524 to minor delays.

I said I'd have trouble yesterday. Coming home from Embankment last night around 10:00, the service was suspended and the station shut. Not sure what happened, but think somebody was on the track further west. Had to walk to Holborn and get home that way. Wonder if I'll be able to get to the Emirates tomorrow night !

Just as a matter of interest, what is the punishment for those convicted as a result of this sort of thing?

When I had my one-under, many years ago, I was told that there was a copper waiting at the blokes bed in hospital, so that if he woke up, he could be cautioned that he may be prosecuted for trespass. It was explained that this was more to do with preventing the bloke from making a claim against LU, than actually taking action against him.