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Old November 2nd 12, 07:03 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Information needed re. train passing through Tooting


On 02/11/2012 18:46, Graham Harrison wrote:

"Ian F." wrote:

This is a post from a local forum. Would anyone be able to shed any
light?

"We are woken every morning by a fast train around 6am, which shakes
our house. This train has much more of an impact than the other trains
throughout the day, and I am concerned it is the cause of a number of
cracks that have started appearing inside and outside our house.

"Is anyone else experiencing a problem since this train started
passing towards the city from the Wimbledon direction?"


Are we talking about the Wimbledon, Haydons Road, Tooting line? Have
they tried getting up in time to see it and describe it? I'd say there
are 2 possibilities - firstly an engineers train - significantly heavier
than the normal 319/377 but it could even be a 319 or 377 if it is ECS
and therefore running faster than usual when they're used to trains that
are calling at Tooting Station.

However.... Open Train Times doesn't list any ECS going through Tooting
and engineers aren't usually that regular.


Also, and you (Graham) probably know this but the OP might not, but Open
Train Times nor any of the other websites which present the railway's
'working timetable' (WTT) data show freight trains.

The 'raw' WTT is however available in table form on the Network Rail
site here, if you can work out how to decipher it:
http://www.networkrail.co.uk/browseDirectory.aspx?dir=\Timetables\Working%20tim etable%20%28WTT%29