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Post by seaeagle on Dec 12, 2023 19:29:29 GMT
We used platform 4 on the northbound today. I wonder if this was due today's points failure at Seven Sisters. The train I was on originally terminated at Finsbury Park and then ran empty northbound. There were 2x CSAs at the platform to make for a quick dispatch. We were told the train terminated there due to the late running, but wasn't clear initially why it couldn't have just tipped us off at Seven Sisters and continued to the depot from there. Now I am thinking perhaps the points issue meant the regular NB platform at SS wasn't accessible. The train was most likely going to be held in the tunnel for a long period, so that's why it would have been terminated at Finsbury Park. It's not un-common for trains to go to Walthamstow via platform 4, as Seven Sisters is a crew changeover point, a train could be stuck on platform 3 awaiting a driver, so a following train could be run around it via platform 4.
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Post by seaeagle on Oct 31, 2023 6:57:30 GMT
The only thing this appears to have sorted out is getting trains in the right sequence onto the core but is it essential to do that at such a delay cost ? That happens all the time on TFL, E.G. a southbound Northern Line Morden via Bank train will be held at Kennington to let a late running southbound Morden via Charing X go ahead of it to keep trains in the right order
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Post by seaeagle on Oct 30, 2023 18:45:12 GMT
From what I understand it was a different failure to the last one, just happened to be in the same area.
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Post by seaeagle on Mar 11, 2023 18:45:28 GMT
Vehicle 80 is being stripped of parts before being sent for scrap. Vehicle 39 was sent away for scrap last month having spent around 7 years berthed outside the sheds behind Beckton Control Centre donating parts to other B92 vehicles. I assume the stripping of vehicle 80 was stopped as I travelled on it today!
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Post by seaeagle on Aug 24, 2022 16:00:05 GMT
I consider myself lucky. After 34 years on the trains I have never had to use the ice scraper. Although it came close a few times. 😊 Never had to use one myself in 33 years, mind you not really much reason to on the Vic
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Post by seaeagle on Jul 24, 2022 21:21:58 GMT
I was under the impression that the platform button killed the codes making the train emergency brake. There was a lot of people that thought that! True it would kill a 420 or 270 code, however if you were coming into a platform on a 180 code, (which was most of the time when coming into a platform), you could coast. Obviously when leaving a platform you'd have a 420 code, and if the platform plunger was pressed the train would stop in a heap. God that's bringing some memories back, haven't worked a 67 stock for more years than I care to remember! lol
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Post by seaeagle on Jul 24, 2022 19:36:49 GMT
Interesting, it seems LT simply applied the then-prevailing practice with necessary modifications for one man operation and automatic train operation ... with more radical changes coming later on ... There were push buttons along the platform walls that could stop the train in an emergency. The push buttons on the platforms would not stop the train, they would just cause the train to lose power, they could still coast
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Post by seaeagle on Jun 14, 2022 21:57:47 GMT
Just as an add on to this thread, there was a rule that two 72 stock's on the Vic couldn't be coupled together when in service as Vic T/Op's weren't trained on them in the event of a train having to be uncoupled and driven from the middle cabs. You can imagine the farce when I discovered an eight car train with two 72 stocks in the middle at Brixton and refused to take it many years ago lol
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Post by seaeagle on May 6, 2022 11:16:11 GMT
It's not a bad show, unfortunately there are a few things that are incorrect, as an example when Siddy climbs back onto the platform at Kennington after walking around the loop, the platform is on the wrong side !!!
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Post by seaeagle on Feb 2, 2022 22:16:40 GMT
There use to be two train washes at Northumberland Park depot on 51 and 52 roads, nearly every train when heading to the depot use to get a wash on the way in. Now days there is only the one on 60 road, so a train would only get a wash when doing a staff train, and if that's now knackered, nothing is getting washed. Anyone got a bucket and sponge?
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Post by seaeagle on Sept 1, 2021 12:27:34 GMT
On this day, 1st September 1968 the first stage of the Victoria Line opened from Walthamstow Central to Highbury & Islington
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Post by seaeagle on Aug 14, 2021 16:19:34 GMT
Air con on the 09 stock on the Vic was fantastic, only ever had one problem with it and that was a bit of leaking fluid. Guess the units were still fairly new compared to what the Central and Northern had.
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Post by seaeagle on Aug 9, 2021 18:29:50 GMT
A special service was being operated on 4/8/21, easily given away by the train not being numbers in the 2xx series. When an emergency timetable is brought into operation, trains are renumbered 001 upwards, it is known as Plan B to operating staff. Normally the renumbering of trains takes place at Seven Sisters northbound platform, (platform 3).
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Post by seaeagle on Jun 26, 2021 18:09:37 GMT
Had a most enjoyable day there, nice being able to sit in comfortable train seats again!
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Post by seaeagle on May 11, 2021 19:25:38 GMT
Shame they missed a few things, i.e. the headlight on the nose end for starters.
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Post by seaeagle on May 11, 2021 19:19:50 GMT
Wow! Not in great condition is it. At least delivery is free! Got to feel sorry for the postie
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Post by seaeagle on Apr 16, 2021 8:30:10 GMT
You just beat me to it Colin! Pictures of it being delivered on various FB groups
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Post by seaeagle on Dec 25, 2020 21:13:28 GMT
As I understand it there is provision to stable two eight car trains on each track beyond the south end of the platforms at Brixton. Both sidings at Brixton can stable two trains, however it is only signalled to take one train in each siding. To get a second train in either siding is an emergency move only
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Post by seaeagle on Sept 10, 2020 17:59:48 GMT
What was it like driving from the uncoupling end? Can't speak for the 38 stock, but the 72 stock was bloody horrible to drive from the cabinet, trying to control the three car unit from driving controls you aren't familiar with while trying to see out of the connecting door droplight window, so glad I only had to do it a few times.
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Post by seaeagle on Jun 22, 2020 17:56:03 GMT
Two trains, (one Met & one Chiltern) in a near miss at Chalfont
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Post by seaeagle on Jun 4, 2020 15:12:10 GMT
Just found this on YouTube, it was only posted on 3rd June 2020
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Post by seaeagle on May 24, 2020 18:10:05 GMT
Presumably the stock had to have an official second man in the cab as there was no trip cock fitted. Tripcock was fitted and operational from Finsbury Park onwards. Anyone who was in the leading coach of the tour would have the seats just behind the cab door being lifted and the tripcock being set while in Finsbury Park platform
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Post by seaeagle on May 16, 2020 13:12:32 GMT
I can not believe it was 9 years ago! OMG I'm getting old, remember driving 3007 that day, last time I ever drove that unit. Also remember selling car numberplates to various members of this forum at Uxbridge that day
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Post by seaeagle on Dec 31, 2019 23:07:03 GMT
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Post by seaeagle on Dec 31, 2019 18:18:33 GMT
link not working for facebook Could be because the photo's are in a FB group. Any way around this?
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Post by seaeagle on Dec 31, 2019 17:27:15 GMT
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Post by seaeagle on Nov 28, 2019 16:32:49 GMT
Such sad news and at such a young age. Thoughts are with all his family and friends.
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Post by seaeagle on Nov 20, 2019 14:26:13 GMT
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Post by seaeagle on Nov 13, 2019 18:57:11 GMT
So it sounds like the 5% figure is the one that is unrealistic in the real world. Where does that figure come from? Chris, I've no idea where that figure came from, it was always 5% since I started working on depot rosters. Perhaps when the 5% pool figure first appeared, (I guess with the company plan in the 90's) things were different i.e hardly any female drivers to get pregnant, no secondments as two examples. Just to make it clear, I'm not blaming females having families!!!
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Post by seaeagle on Nov 13, 2019 15:32:50 GMT
I have no idea what it says on the intranet but down here in the real world we've been short of drivers for at least a year so if all the depots are "over establishment" then the establishment is far too low. The establishment of a train crew depot is made up of the roster plus a pool which is worked out at 5% of that roster, i.e. a depot with 100 rostered drivers will have a pool of 5 drivers. These 5 drivers are used week by week to cover any duty that is uncovered for whatever reason, be it sickness, outstanding or uncovered leave, training, union release, secondments, pregnancy (which is not a sickness), disciplinary matters etc the list goes on. Using my ex depot as an example as it was one shy of 100 rostered drivers, there were 3 pregnant women, two I/OP's released for training, two seconded to other jobs, (both management jobs), a backlog of outstanding leave to be taken together with a backlog of LDI's (discipline) which meant two union reps need to be released as well as the drivers being disciplined, then you have the week to week sickness on top of that plus some of the pool drivers could be on leave. Five to cover three times that amount just isn't going to work!
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