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Post by bengady3 on Feb 2, 2018 21:15:53 GMT
Yeah, When I mean gearbox I mean the throttle and etc. The company that produced the gearboxes and certain parts for the train went bust and the parts were slightly faulty. But they don't even use fuel so how will they have a throttle? I've already mentioned that the issue that caused them all to be withdrawn from service was because of the issue with the doors. I know, I was just adding extra information because its not only the doors.
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Post by snowman on Feb 6, 2018 9:48:15 GMT
TfL looking for a partner, appears they are going into property development, building 1500 homes at the Limmo site (near Canning Town) which was used as a tunnelling base. Presumably lots of apartments as it works out at 122 homes per acre Link
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Post by snowman on Feb 8, 2018 11:29:17 GMT
Apparently Balfour Beaty has got tough with the striking Sparks (electricians) at Woolwich. They have used a clause in the contracts to claim back bonuses already paid by deducting it from current wages from those on strike. Wonder if this will delay the station opening.
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Post by snoggle on Feb 9, 2018 21:41:22 GMT
Confirmation of the planned contingency plan for TfL Rail / Crossrail western services from May this year. Track access application to NRLot of detail on that link including service levels and the fall back arrangements for different types of rolling stock. Also confirms some of the technical / project issues that are hindering the planned service.
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Post by snowman on Feb 10, 2018 7:37:37 GMT
Confirmation of the planned contingency plan for TfL Rail / Crossrail western services from May this year. Track access application to NRLot of detail on that link including service levels and the fall back arrangements for different types of rolling stock. Also confirms some of the technical / project issues that are hindering the planned service. Very interesting that short 7 car versions of 345s may be used initially if the bay platform extension at Hayes and Harlington is delayed. Originally only the Liverpool Street services were getting short 345 trains Were the class 360 Heathrow Connect units just spare from May so can be reused, Or were they supposed to be going to another Operator (who and when), guess it’s a bonus for their lease Co if rented instead of parked up
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Post by ADH45258 on Feb 10, 2018 8:03:14 GMT
Confirmation of the planned contingency plan for TfL Rail / Crossrail western services from May this year. Track access application to NRLot of detail on that link including service levels and the fall back arrangements for different types of rolling stock. Also confirms some of the technical / project issues that are hindering the planned service. Very interesting that short 7 car versions of 345s may be used initially if the bay platform extension at Hayes and Harlington is delayed. Originally only the Liverpool Street services were getting short 345 trains Were the class 360 Heathrow Connect units just spare from May so can be reused, Or were they supposed to be going to another Operator (who and when), guess it’s a bonus for their lease Co if rented instead of parked up Don't think the HC 360s are destined to go anywhere, though it would make sense if they were to go (along with the greater anglia examples) to LNWR to work alongside the 350s, with no need to purchase any new aventras.
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Post by snoggle on Feb 10, 2018 10:30:21 GMT
Confirmation of the planned contingency plan for TfL Rail / Crossrail western services from May this year. Track access application to NRLot of detail on that link including service levels and the fall back arrangements for different types of rolling stock. Also confirms some of the technical / project issues that are hindering the planned service. Very interesting that short 7 car versions of 345s may be used initially if the bay platform extension at Hayes and Harlington is delayed. Originally only the Liverpool Street services were getting short 345 trains Were the class 360 Heathrow Connect units just spare from May so can be reused, Or were they supposed to be going to another Operator (who and when), guess it’s a bonus for their lease Co if rented instead of parked up The use of the short 345s out west is a new measure but given they have a surplus of trains "accepted" but not in use on the Shenfield line it is probably a pragmatic move given the risks of non completion of the extended Hayes bay. The 360s were, AIUI, going to be surplus so keeping them going means cash for the ROSCO and it digs MTR Crossrail / TfL out of a very difficult hole given no other stock, other than HEX's 332s, can work into the H'row tunnel. HAL won't be overly sad at TfL only being able to run half hourly into the airport in the short term - reduced competition! It is also noteworthy that TfL have scaled back the planned Sunday service levels too - to avoid Network Rail being lumbered with Sch 4 payments. Still the Sunday service will twice as frequent as at present into the airport. There were further comments on London Reconnections yesterday which indicated that the problems with getting the 345s to work into Heathrow are not to do with ETCS per se as the ETCS test train (the converted class 313) has apparently worked perfectly well in the tunnel. This means it is the class 345 that is causing "interference" issues which is a whole other ball game and puts the onus on Bombardier. Depending on what you read and where there seem to be two (and soon to be three) issues - the basic reliability of the 345s themselves given door and CCTV interface problems. The second one is operation into Heathrow and the third will no doubt be its ability or otherwise to work with CBTC in the core. That is an awful lot of complex issues to be juggling at one time. Heaven help them if something else emerges. There will also be the need to ensure the trains, albeit in ECS mode, can get across the signalling transition points at Westbourne Park and Pudding Mill Lane. Trains to run the core service will come from both Old Oak Common and Ilford so they have to be able to switch from CBTC to conventional signalling at PML and on to ETCS / TPWS (not entirely sure how the western bit will work) at WP.
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Post by snowman on Feb 10, 2018 11:23:44 GMT
Might be update in the Board papers for Programmes and Investment committee this week
Meeting is 21st February so papers likely to go on TfL website evening of 13th or morning of 14th
Probably also give clues as to other items and which programmes are being pared back due to TfL being skint
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Post by snowman on Feb 20, 2018 9:01:40 GMT
345.020 visited Paddington (main station) last night. First one at Paddington
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Post by M1104 on Mar 5, 2018 16:39:28 GMT
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Post by snoggle on Mar 16, 2018 16:57:50 GMT
The Mayor has announced the fares that will apply on Crossrail when it starts operation plus the fares regime for services into Heathrow from May this year. In essence the fares are as for the Tube within Zones 1-6 but journeys into Heathrow attract a premium (as Heathrow Connect currently does). The premium is slightly lower than Heathrow Connect BUT normal Z1-6 daily and weekly caps and Travelcards will be valid to Heathrow without an extra premium. This means people travelling to / from Heathrow on Crossrail will only have a small incremental premium to pay for all of their remaining travel in Greater London. Existing concessions will apply meaning the Freedom Pass and 60+ Pass and free / lower child fares will apply into Heathrow. Printed paper tickets from Zone 1 or beyond Z1 (where travelling via the centre) will cost slightly more than Oyster or Contactless fares but will be lower than current Heathrow Connect through fares. Heathrow Express will accept Oyster and Contactless from a date to be announced but remains entirely outside of the Travelcard and capping scheme. The Mayoral Decision has full details of the fares to be charged. Mayoral DecisionPress releaseEDITA summary from the Mayoral Decision document - basically a retained premium on PAYG fares of £7 if travelling from or across Zone 1 to reach Heathrow via TfL Rail - a premium of around £4.50 on top of TfL PAYG fares if travelling from West London / along the line from Paddington. - Travelcards and Daily / Weekly Caps will be valid into Heathrow without a premium charge so that lowers costs for regular users - TfL are negotiating ongoing discounted tickets for airport employees. Current discount is not funded by HAL but on a "goodwill" basis by GWR (seems a bit generous to me) - Apparently the publication of the Mayoral Direction was delayed by 2 weeks awaiting a DfT decision about "Zone 6 allocation". Shows these decisions are not entirely for the Mayor. - Existing concessionary fares for children and those on low income / seeking work also apply as does free travel for Freedom Pass holders, 60+ Pass Holders and Veterans Oyster Cards. - The Heathrow stations and HEX platforms at Paddington are all being gated. I imagine the Paddington works are more than a little involved. - Fares for Heathrow Express remain a matter for Heathrow and will not fall within the capping or Travelcard schemes. The date for HEX to accept Oyster / Contactless is yet to be announced and will be subject to the completion of gating at Paddington.
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Post by busaholic on Mar 17, 2018 22:30:38 GMT
The Mayor has announced the fares that will apply on Crossrail when it starts operation plus the fares regime for services into Heathrow from May this year. In essence the fares are as for the Tube within Zones 1-6 but journeys into Heathrow attract a premium (as Heathrow Connect currently does). The premium is slightly lower than Heathrow Connect BUT normal Z1-6 daily and weekly caps and Travelcards will be valid to Heathrow without an extra premium. This means people travelling to / from Heathrow on Crossrail will only have a small incremental premium to pay for all of their remaining travel in Greater London. Existing concessions will apply meaning the Freedom Pass and 60+ Pass and free / lower child fares will apply into Heathrow. Printed paper tickets from Zone 1 or beyond Z1 (where travelling via the centre) will cost slightly more than Oyster or Contactless fares but will be lower than current Heathrow Connect through fares. Heathrow Express will accept Oyster and Contactless from a date to be announced but remains entirely outside of the Travelcard and capping scheme. The Mayoral Decision has full details of the fares to be charged. Mayoral DecisionPress releaseEDITA summary from the Mayoral Decision document - basically a retained premium on PAYG fares of £7 if travelling from or across Zone 1 to reach Heathrow via TfL Rail - a premium of around £4.50 on top of TfL PAYG fares if travelling from West London / along the line from Paddington. - Travelcards and Daily / Weekly Caps will be valid into Heathrow without a premium charge so that lowers costs for regular users - TfL are negotiating ongoing discounted tickets for airport employees. Current discount is not funded by HAL but on a "goodwill" basis by GWR (seems a bit generous to me) - Apparently the publication of the Mayoral Direction was delayed by 2 weeks awaiting a DfT decision about "Zone 6 allocation". Shows these decisions are not entirely for the Mayor. - Existing concessionary fares for children and those on low income / seeking work also apply as does free travel for Freedom Pass holders, 60+ Pass Holders and Veterans Oyster Cards. - The Heathrow stations and HEX platforms at Paddington are all being gated. I imagine the Paddington works are more than a little involved. - Fares for Heathrow Express remain a matter for Heathrow and will not fall within the capping or Travelcard schemes. The date for HEX to accept Oyster / Contactless is yet to be announced and will be subject to the completion of gating at Paddington. I wonder how the fares from Abbey Wood to a Zone 1 station will compare with current Southeastern fares to London terminals?
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Post by snoggle on Mar 18, 2018 0:27:58 GMT
I wonder how the fares from Abbey Wood to a Zone 1 station will compare with current Southeastern fares to London terminals? If we take the Mayor at his word then it will be a fair bit cheaper than South Eastern as there is "Zone 1 add on" for Crossrail. South Eastern fares will also keep rising so they will go up about 3 weeks after Crossrail opens to Abbey Wood. The only query I have in my mind is that Thameslink trains will also run from Abbey Wood to Farringdon direct as from May. There will be no way of distinguishing how people reach Farringdon (or elsewhere in Zone 1) from Abbey Wood if they use Thameslink or Crossrail. Obviously South Eastern services run to gated terminal stations so people will have their cards read why they interchange. Of course people will be able to change to frequent Thameslink services within the gateline at London Bridge to reach Farringdon so, again, this throws up a potential anomoly. Part of me thinks that TfL and DfT may do a deal to scrap the Zone 1 add on fare because Thameslink and Crossrail jointly tie together so many rail services and afford open interchange at a number of stations that the concept becomes a bit stupid / hard to enforce. I do know that there has been a Fares and Ticketing Working Group reviewing Crossrail's ticketing for a long time. This is purely because it is a rather revolutionary rail service given how it ties together two large parts of the NR network and, via Farringdon, links to 5 other main routes (MML, Great Northern, South Eastern, Southern and SWR (via Wimbledon)).
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Post by snowman on Mar 18, 2018 7:51:32 GMT
I wonder how the fares from Abbey Wood to a Zone 1 station will compare with current Southeastern fares to London terminals? If we take the Mayor at his word then it will be a fair bit cheaper than South Eastern as there is "Zone 1 add on" for Crossrail. South Eastern fares will also keep rising so they will go up about 3 weeks after Crossrail opens to Abbey Wood. The only query I have in my mind is that Thameslink trains will also run from Abbey Wood to Farringdon direct as from May. There will be no way of distinguishing how people reach Farringdon (or elsewhere in Zone 1) from Abbey Wood if they use Thameslink or Crossrail. Obviously South Eastern services run to gated terminal stations so people will have their cards read why they interchange. Of course people will be able to change to frequent Thameslink services within the gateline at London Bridge to reach Farringdon so, again, this throws up a potential anomoly. Part of me thinks that TfL and DfT may do a deal to scrap the Zone 1 add on fare because Thameslink and Crossrail jointly tie together so many rail services and afford open interchange at a number of stations that the concept becomes a bit stupid / hard to enforce. I do know that there has been a Fares and Ticketing Working Group reviewing Crossrail's ticketing for a long time. This is purely because it is a rather revolutionary rail service given how it ties together two large parts of the NR network and, via Farringdon, links to 5 other main routes (MML, Great Northern, South Eastern, Southern and SWR (via Wimbledon)). There would potentially be all sorts of routings that could confuse the system, not just Farringdon As an example could travel to City Thameslink or Blackfriars via Farringdon If you were crazy could also reach Blackfriars via Whitechapel or Liverpool St More practically someone from Plumstead or Belvedere might choose to travel via Abbey wood, easy change, get a seat all the way. How do you know their routing unless vast numbers of pink validators start appearing in many interchange passageways Similarly if someone travels Abbey Wood -Stratford, did they stay in zone 3 (changing to DLR at custom House) or go via another zone, how does it know which route
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Post by snoggle on Mar 18, 2018 15:45:49 GMT
There would potentially be all sorts of routings that could confuse the system, not just Farringdon As an example could travel to City Thameslink or Blackfriars via Farringdon If you were crazy could also reach Blackfriars via Whitechapel or Liverpool St More practically someone from Plumstead or Belvedere might choose to travel via Abbey wood, easy change, get a seat all the way. How do you know their routing unless vast numbers of pink validators start appearing in many interchange passageways Similarly if someone travels Abbey Wood -Stratford, did they stay in zone 3 (changing to DLR at custom House) or go via another zone, how does it know which route I agree there are all sorts of "holes" on the network. Many already exist but are tolerated as the revenue at risk is low or they can be targetted by revenue staff fairly easily. Some places like Farringdon are not fixable because you can't safely gate cross platform interchanges at an affordable cost. Crossrail and Thameslink together do create a lot of extra opportunities although I expect TfL is working to gate as many Crossrail stations as possible as ticket halls get rebuilt. More gating on Thameslink or longer hours of operation where stns are already gated is a matter for the DfT as it's a management contract with DfT taking revenue risk. It remains to be seen whether some sanity on fares levels happens as it will make life a lot easier for people if it did.
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