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Post by snoggle on Jan 12, 2017 20:43:55 GMT
The arrangements for the Battersea Station were thrown into disarray because the developer changed the over station development design. I understand this has had implications for what goes on below. The station box at Battersea includes the crossover so until you are dealing with a fixed, agreed design for the entire link there is no point tunnelling. The last official report stated that there had been ground problems at the location which delayed the box. Goodness knows what the commercial fall out has been for LU. I suspect the completion date for the extension is certainly now later than forecast and there may be other knock ons because the programme was already extremely tight when it was signed off and it's gone sideways by several months (last report I saw suggested at least 160+ days delay). Unfortunately the complete absence of Project Reporting by TfL in recent quarters has created a gap in terms of up to date info. Tunnelling was supposed to start with TBMs nearly a year ago so it seems the link may now be 1 year late if the TBMs have not yet gone into the ground. content.tfl.gov.uk/battersea-power-station-update-dec-2016.pdfcontent.tfl.gov.uk/northern-line-extension-quaterly-newsletter-dec-2016.pdfI think the timeline in the newsletter is rather too vague for its own good but I imagine no one wants to shout "project is late" even though it's not LU's fault.
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Post by 725DYE on Jan 13, 2017 22:53:15 GMT
So it's likely the "....left/ right-hand side" announcement will be confined to the Victoria Line? The weird thing is that for years, the Victoria Line is the only line with those announcements - even the 67 stock had the same announcements so it does perplex me why it's not rolled out on other lines. Jubilee line 1996TS stock now have this feature. Only they sound weird because they've been edited into the original announcement recordings and don't sound natural at all! Coupled to the lag you get when the announcer says "This train terminates at (2 second gap) Stanmore." This really annoys me as well. They really do nosed to sort it out IMO
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2017 14:10:08 GMT
The weird thing is that for years, the Victoria Line is the only line with those announcements - even the 67 stock had the same announcements so it does perplex me why it's not rolled out on other lines. Jubilee line 1996TS stock now have this feature. Only they sound weird because they've been edited into the original announcement recordings and don't sound natural at all! Coupled to the lag you get when the announcer says "This train terminates at (2 second gap) Stanmore." This really annoys me as well. They really do nosed to sort it out IMO To be fair the delay between announcement and terminus description is 0.75 seconds lol but on a serious note I do agree, it's as annoying as the 'Neaaaaaaaasden!' termination announcement lol
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Post by M1104 on Jan 20, 2017 14:41:55 GMT
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Post by COBO on Jan 20, 2017 17:33:28 GMT
Yesterday there was a Central Line running from White City to Liverpool Street.
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Post by M1104 on Feb 2, 2017 23:57:44 GMT
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Post by M1104 on Feb 13, 2017 23:17:07 GMT
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Post by M1104 on Mar 22, 2017 18:48:14 GMT
Westminister Station now reopened, for interchange only
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Post by Hassaan on Mar 24, 2017 8:52:33 GMT
Third time in 3 weeks I've found a 2-car DLR train on a weekday Beckton to Tower Gateway service. Before March I'd never seen anything less than 3 cars on this service on a weekday
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Post by snoggle on Mar 24, 2017 9:00:04 GMT
Third time in 3 weeks I've found a 2-car DLR train on a weekday Beckton to Tower Gateway service. Before March I'd never seen anything less than 3 cars on this service on a weekday I get a sense that the current operator is not having an easy time of it. How much is their fault and how much is inherited I've no idea. The recent paper on new DLR rolling stock said that there are increasing reliability issues with the older trains. The need to couple and uncouple units for maintenance and then service is also causing problems with the trains. It's a shame given the DLR has been renowned for its reliability for many years. If things get really bad then I expect there will be a lot of unhappy people.
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Post by Hassaan on Apr 5, 2017 15:07:44 GMT
Early on Saturday I got caught up in my first ever DLR disruption. There was a failed train near Royal Victoria, and reports from the staff radios appeared to be that staff were accessing it from the track. The train appeared to have failed just after clearing the points for the flyover and upper level, as a shuttle service between Beckton and Canning Town low level was announced, with trains on the Tower Gateway side of it announced as terminating at Pontoon Dock (although the two I saw were displaying Canning Town). In the end I noticed a perfect connection with the 474 at London City Airport so I went that way instead, which meant a shorter walk at the end . The Beckton service remained showing the same times for several minutes, and I don't know how long it took in the end. Meanwhile, guess what? Currently on another 2-car Tower Gateway service! That will be fun later
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Post by ThinLizzy on Apr 6, 2017 16:55:00 GMT
Early on Saturday I got caught up in my first ever DLR disruption. There was a failed train nei8ar Royal Victoria, and reports from the staff radios appeared to be that staff were accessing it from the track. The train appeared to have failed just after clearing the points for the flyover and upper level, as a shuttle service between Beckton and Canning Town low level was announced, with trains on the Tower Gateway side of it announced as terminating at Pontoon Dock (although the two I saw were displaying Canning Town). In the end I noticed a perfect connection with the 474 at London City Airport so I went that way instead, which meant a shorter walk at the end . The Beckton service remained showing the same times for several minutes, and I don't know how long it took in the end. Meanwhile, guess what? Currently on another 2-car Tower Gateway service! That will be fun later There's currently a vehicle shortage due to problems with the wheel lathe at Beckton. Should start to be rectified next week
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Post by rmz19 on Apr 13, 2017 13:24:29 GMT
Regarding the S stock, the driver-end carriages have narrower doors compared to the rest of the doors. Wouldn't it have made more sense for them to be single leaf instead? The width of the D Stock doors even appear slightly wider so this shouldn't be much of an inconvenience regarding dwelling time, it would've probably cost less to build too.
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Post by COBO on Apr 21, 2017 21:14:37 GMT
An westbound Central Line running from White City to Northolt. Departing White City from platform 2 instead of the usual platform 1.
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Post by M1104 on May 7, 2017 22:35:18 GMT
There's presently a 24 hour* disruption in progress at London Bridge tube station, this one said to continue until 9.59pm Monday night. It's in relation to a member of staff being sacked due to an incident with a fare dodger. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-39835541* - started 10 p.m. tonight
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