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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2008 17:36:20 GMT
Hi,
I have been reading about stepping back but don't understand how it works.
Can anybody help?
Dan
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Post by tubeprune on Dec 12, 2008 18:04:22 GMT
It goes like this:
Train arrives in terminus, like Brixton or Elephant. Driver shuts down, gets bag and coat and steps out of cab. Another driver gets into the cab at the other end and opens up. This train can now go whenever the signal clears.
The original driver now walks to the front end of the adjacent platform and waits for the next train to arrive there when he will get into the rear cab ready to start as soon as the arriving driver shuts down.
In some places the driver steps back two trains, as at Aldgate.
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Post by mrfs42 on Dec 12, 2008 18:15:15 GMT
Hi, I have been reading about stepping back but don't understand how it works. Can anybody help? It's fairly simple - the idea is to save the time that would be spent by a T/Op walking from one end of the train to the other, shutting down one cab and opening up another. Imagine T/Ops Henry, Charles and Harriet driving trains 1, 2 and 3 respectively. There is also a fourth t/op Willhelmina. Henry, Charles, Harriet and Wilhemina are all driving on the Bakerloo, and come into Elephant when stepping back is in action. Henry drives train 1 into platform 3 at Elephant, shuts down the south cab and gets out of the train. Wilhelmina, waiting at the north end of platform 3 gets on the north end of train 1 and opens up the north cab. Wilhelmina waits for Charles on train 2 to arrive in platform 4. Henry walks from the south end of platform 3 to the north end of platform 4. Once Charles arrives, Wilhelmina departs North to Harrow. Charles shuts down the south cab of train 2 and gets out at the south end of platform 4. Henry then gets on the north end of train 2 in platform 3 where he was ready and waiting to get on. Henry opens up the north cab of train 2 and waits for Harriet to arrive so he can depart north to Queens Park. Charles walks from the south end of platform 4 to the north end of platform 3, and he also waits for Harriet. Harriet arrives on train 3, into platform 3, she shuts down the south cab and gets out; Charles gets on Harriet's train and takes it north to Harrow; Harriet crosses over to the other platform ready for another train. OK? Each incoming driver gets out and takes out the next train in from the other platform - Henry and Charles have both gone back (or stepped back) one train; Harriet is waiting for a train to come in so she can step back. Wilhelmina is at Queens Park by now. The idea of stepping back is that with stepping back, you can get a train out quicker. Not all stepping back is one train, Met stepping back at Aldgate is two trains and the Drain steps back at both Waterloo and Bank during peak times. Hope this helps.  EDIT: TP posted whilst I was typing - I think he gets the prize for conciseness! |
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Post by Oracle on Dec 12, 2008 18:48:47 GMT
I recall when Drivers used to leave their keys in the cabs, and hand over their own key to the next person to save time. All very well except someone decided to have his/her keys chromium-plated, which required filing in the U-part to make it fit! Refusal to play ball and leave the shiny-plated item in the cab caused a ruction or two and explanation as to why! I had various keys given to me by an old Driver, including a C Stock and Standard Stock one and had them satin-chromed to stop them getting rusty.
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Post by JR 15secs on Dec 12, 2008 18:51:42 GMT
You guys TP & MRFS forgot to say at the Elephant and Brixton the T/Op has to press the rear cab clear plunger, well I did when I worked on those lines.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2008 19:52:12 GMT
You guys TP & MRFS forgot to say at the Elephant and Brixton the T/Op has to press the rear cab clear plunger, well I did when I worked on those lines.Same at Aldgate. 
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Post by Colin on Dec 12, 2008 21:04:47 GMT
I recall when Drivers used to leave their keys in the cabs, and hand over their own key to the next person to save time. Used to? we still do! ;D ;D ;D ;D I know it doesn't apply to all stocks now - and I'm not going to pretend to know each stock - certainly on C & D stocks this is still the practice. |
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Post by Oracle on Dec 12, 2008 22:27:38 GMT
Also, there were it seems a few choice words if the relieving Driver (Motorman/woman) was not there waiting....I have been in the front car of 1959 Stock [at Acton Town I seem to recall] and you could hear the comments when the key had to be taken out and taken with them as there was no-one to swap with!
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Post by Tubeboy on Dec 12, 2008 22:41:00 GMT
Hmm, TP's explanation is better for the layman MRFS!  |
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