Fun Today wasn't it???

it was a seized silec treadle just before WB1/2 so when the olympia train went through the area the route was not beening cancelled thus not allowing nothing to west ken or from west ken and when the early turn t/o went to change it the new one from the REW did not work either so they just suspended the olympias

yesterday at cannon street was a sticky trainstop valve
monday at putney bridge was a trainstop valve for the policeman trainstop which just life expired
thankfully i just been getting stupid little jobs this week on lates ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

The DR appeared to be running better than the H&C yesterday morning.

Leytonstone -> Paddington. Departure approximately 09:45.
I got of a standing room only Central Line train at Mile End in the hope of getting a seat on a H&C train.

1st train was a DR train to Richmond with seats available, so I took this as far as Aldgate East.

Next train and Ald E was a DR to Wimbledon, following one was a DR to Richmond. then two DRs to Upminster arrived on the e/b. Then finally was a H&C to Hammersmith, with a D stock arriving on the e/b immediately before we departed.

On the tuesday early afternoon the Circle wasn't working well either - it shoudl not take 20 minutes to get from Paddington to Baker Street!

We were sitting on our C stock on 27rd PG doing our refresher and we saw D stocks going past with 'special' numbers on the front... Then it seemed to be a C stock only service on the branch. I assume an emergency TT was introduced?

this was due to the signal main deciding that enough was enough so it shut everything but it might have something to do with the earth they have had on it all week

the 600v signal main developed a fault with a cable around the mile end area which knocked out the breakers and whitechapel and bow road this then makes the signalling completely shut down. maintenance is done on them but due to the electricity at work act special conditions have to be put in place before any work is carried out on that type of equipment because of the voltage involved. and yes it can happen again it could happen anywhere on the system like anything failing if the equipment has had enough its had enough.

Interesting - I'd always heard it said that sites like Whitechapel and Edgware Road almost NEVER fail, primarily because they were wired up in the "good old days" of the LTE, and therefore benefited from the differing working practices of the time (the wiring looms are supposedly works of art!).

the area between whitechapel and plaistow is life expired and will be the first section to be re-signalled

the east end is more reliable then the west end but i have found when it goes wrong it really goes wrong

the wiring looms around the network should be all roughly to the same standard as there wasnt that many circuit installers around and still isn't

I am led to believe that the signalling itself is actually prewar, the 50s changes being comparatively minor.