Danger UXB!

Well, that's the NOC for you! Now you know that most of their information is usually not totally correct! ;D ;D ;D
Earlier on today a passenger on a train was asking why there was a delay, they looked quite shocked and worried when I said it was WWII bomb! Though I didn't tell some Germans the same reason! They were also slightly confused by some old fashioned signs - they said that they didn't want to break the rules! ;D ;D

Ah. That makes sense now.

Those ex Fen. St. were running towards Rainham.

Those ex Liv. St. were running towards Shoebury'

I wonder how often that line you mention is used Oracle?

That explains a lot. When I was waiting at Earls Court for a Wimbledon train, I thought I saw a train going the other way to Bromley-by-Bow. Also, the station announcer was giving details of the replacement bus service and telling customers to use local bus services between Whitechapel and Bromley-by-Bow.

Deal with the District Line management - after the WCL - PLW suspension had been agreed and publicity gone out, various DR senior people decided to operate to B-by-B in addition. But a NOC/DR decision was made not to advertise the 'limited' service to B-by-B to avoid swamping that station with 1000+ passengers per teminating EB train. I could name names but guess the post would then be deleted...

With regard to the Gas factory Junction single track, it is used mon-fri for a single ECS move into Fenchurch Street prior to the evening peak.

All last trains on the District ran as booked last night.

True, there was no realistic means of travelling onward from Whitechapel - certainly not the "existing local buses" routinely trotted out as an alternative which in this case meant the 25 which is always crush-loaded with fare-fiddlers on a good day. I presume the intention was that people used other LU lines to reach Liverpool Street or Stratford thence by c2c or NatEx; or on the rail replacement bus from Stratford or Canning Town to Plaistow. Obviously the DR management wanted to run as much of the railway as possible, but clearly trying to detrain/reverse every EB train at B-b-B would have been "challenging" to say the least. The point is that it was agreed therefore that the service would reverse E-to-W at Whitechapel, as it had done during the initial suspension on Monday. Only after all the publicity, posters, messages had gone out was it decided to run a small number of trains through to B-b-B. This made sense operationally as the H&C were still using platform 1 at Whitechapel to reverse, so it reduced the number of District trains reversing in platform 2 and thus the potential for blocking back on the EB. But it was felt that to widely advertise the "limited service" of through trains would overload a) B-b-B station and b) the bus service. So it was a case of damned if you do, damned if you don't. Incidentally c2c didn't help with an ever changing range of services and London termini used nor when the TFL poster-plotter system crashed and prevented revised posters from going out (unbelievably there's no IT support for it out of office hours!). Maybe not LU's finest hour information-wise...