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Post by capitalomnibus on Apr 6, 2019 11:16:50 GMT
Nothing wrong with it, it is twitter, not posting this on their website. lucky they even bother to put out any info. You'll go far with that attitude lol. I'm afraid I'd have to agree, appallingly worded. attitude>>> kettle and pot springs to mind
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Post by sid on Apr 6, 2019 13:05:13 GMT
You'll go far with that attitude lol. I'm afraid I'd have to agree, appallingly worded. attitude>>> kettle and pot springs to mind Seriously, even Southeastern would have started a tweet like that with something along the lines of........"we're sorry to inform you that............." rather than a glib "evening all".
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Post by wirewiper on Apr 6, 2019 13:36:05 GMT
attitude>>> kettle and pot springs to mind Seriously, even Southeastern would have started a tweet like that with something along the lines of........"we're sorry to inform you that............." rather than a glib "evening all". Yes, there were enough characters left over for an apology. And also to mention the rail replacement buses.
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Post by mondraker275 on Apr 7, 2019 8:34:11 GMT
I have been trying to find out if trains/RR buses are running today. From TfL website it says good service, then check the due times of trains 77 minutes, 107 minutes....I am almost certain there are rail replacement running but cannot get confirmation, so have decided to avoid it.
TfL have been shambolic running/managing the bus service lately, but it has crept to their running/management of trains with the Crossrail/GOBLIN.
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Post by routew15 on Apr 7, 2019 8:51:28 GMT
I have been trying to find out if trains/RR buses are running today. From TfL website it says good service, then check the due times of trains 77 minutes, 107 minutes....I am almost certain there are rail replacement running but cannot get confirmation, so have decided to avoid it. TfL have been shambolic running/managing the bus service lately, but it has crept to their running/management of trains with the Crossrail/GOBLIN. The reason for 77mins and 107mins As for the RR service who knows it is not be advertised as a substitute. Absolutely agree on the abysmal states of the line. Forget turn up and go it is turn up and who knows...
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Post by busaholic on Apr 7, 2019 19:39:34 GMT
I have been trying to find out if trains/RR buses are running today. From TfL website it says good service, then check the due times of trains 77 minutes, 107 minutes....I am almost certain there are rail replacement running but cannot get confirmation, so have decided to avoid it. TfL have been shambolic running/managing the bus service lately, but it has crept to their running/management of trains with the Crossrail/GOBLIN. The reason for 77mins and 107mins As for the RR service who knows it is not be advertised as a substitute. Absolutely agree on the abysmal states of the line. Forget turn up and go it is turn up and who knows... Not always advisable to post an immediate response to everything one reads, but I can't resist on this occasion. Turn up and go to hell might be the new watchwords.
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Post by Eastlondoner62 on Apr 7, 2019 22:29:17 GMT
And at 11pm we finally have good service
Although looks like the line side fire is what caused the good service according to the tweet.
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Post by snoggle on Apr 7, 2019 22:50:31 GMT
And at 11pm we finally have good service Although looks like the line side fire is what caused the good service according to the tweet. Well by a minor miracle they actually appear to have run the last train ex Gospel Oak tonight. The advertised 2325 on weekdays has not run for over a week with no apology and no information. It is shown on TfL's temporary timetable but has not run or shown in any of the real time tracking systems. Ludicrous given you should NEVER cancel the last train if you can avoid it.
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Post by snoggle on Apr 8, 2019 20:39:51 GMT
Apropos possibly not very much at all we seem to have achieved a little bit of a record today with the class 710 GOBLIN test train paths. 3 out of 4 of them ran including the afternoon and early evening paths which have not run before despite having been scheduled for weeks. Oddly the midday run [1] was abandoned - the train was ready to go on to the North London Line but was shoved into the reversing siding at Willesden Junction and then sent back to Willesden Junction. The rescue loco also had to go the same thing. I can only assume the 710 developed a fault requiring it to go back to depot.
It will be interesting to see if this scale of test (training?) runs continues. If it does it might be indicative of a bit of progress.
[1] this is the one that has run the most.
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Post by Eastlondoner62 on Apr 8, 2019 20:47:39 GMT
Apropos possibly not very much at all we seem to have achieved a little bit of a record today with the class 710 GOBLIN test train paths. 3 out of 4 of them ran including the afternoon and early evening paths which have not run before despite having been scheduled for weeks. Oddly the midday run [1] was abandoned - the train was ready to go on to the North London Line but was shoved into the reversing siding at Willesden Junction and then sent back to Willesden Junction. The rescue loco also had to go the same thing. I can only assume the 710 developed a fault requiring it to go back to depot. It will be interesting to see if this scale of test (training?) runs continues. If it does it might be indicative of a bit of progress. [1] this is the one that has run the most. Hopefully that 710's fault wasn't enough to reset the milage clock. I had wondered what had happened to these test runs, I've not actually seen a 710 in the flesh yet however I've seen the rescue loco multiple times now, which probably means I just keep missing it or it seems to go East of Barking to turn around rather than using Platform 1.
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Post by snoggle on Apr 8, 2019 21:19:03 GMT
Hopefully that 710's fault wasn't enough to reset the milage clock. I had wondered what had happened to these test runs, I've not actually seen a 710 in the flesh yet however I've seen the rescue loco multiple times now, which probably means I just keep missing it or it seems to go East of Barking to turn around rather than using Platform 1. Yes it runs into a siding / connecting line east of Barking to turn while the rescue loco usually has time to stand on P7 awaiting the 710 to arrive back on P8. The 710 then heads off and the loco follows - signals permitting. No idea where any of the units are in terms of fault free mileage. They keep running them but we never quite manage to hear whether they've achieved handover to Arriva Rail London.
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Post by Eastlondoner62 on Apr 8, 2019 21:48:20 GMT
Hopefully that 710's fault wasn't enough to reset the milage clock. I had wondered what had happened to these test runs, I've not actually seen a 710 in the flesh yet however I've seen the rescue loco multiple times now, which probably means I just keep missing it or it seems to go East of Barking to turn around rather than using Platform 1. Yes it runs into a siding / connecting line east of Barking to turn while the rescue loco usually has time to stand on P7 awaiting the 710 to arrive back on P8. The 710 then heads off and the loco follows - signals permitting. No idea where any of the units are in terms of fault free mileage. They keep running them but we never quite manage to hear whether they've achieved handover to Arriva Rail London. That would probably explain why I've never seen a 710 at Barking, they probably don't spend long at the station and if any waiting needs to be done to let c2c have the platform for a few minutes it'll be done in the siding as opposed to clogging up the station platform.
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Post by snoggle on Apr 12, 2019 13:56:28 GMT
THUDORR have given a conditional approval for class 710s to be used on the London Overground network!! No one yet knows what the conditions are but some progress at very long last.
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Post by snoggle on Apr 12, 2019 15:47:28 GMT
ORR have now released their conditional approval letter for the 710s. orr.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/40981/interoperability-authorisation-bombardier-class-710-2019-04-11.pdfAs might be expected it is quite technical in places and I don't understand all of it because I have no familiarity with the referenced regulations. There is clearly more work to do for Bombardier and Arriva but I doubt any of it was a surprise to them. Also of note is the requirement to reduce the risk of people riding on the inter-car areas or climbing to the roof. Like many modern EMUS I think the 710s have "dangling" inter car connector cables which can be used as a ladder. The Hitachi IEPs have this style of inter car connection and I've seen something on Twitter where a modification has had to be designed to prevent access to this area of the train from the platform. Looks like Bombardier have to do the same. Not unlike what LU had to do to tube car ends to stop falling into the gap.
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Post by Eastlondoner62 on Apr 12, 2019 16:04:49 GMT
The stand out condition to me is the fact DC so far has only been approved for non passenger use, I wonder if that's where the remaining software problems lie. Fingers crossed we will now hopefully start to see progress with driver training.
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