On 30/01/2013 02:23, Spyke wrote:
On 29/01/2013 19:45, Peter Smyth wrote:

Would be nice if they could provide the full weekday service before
worrying about Sundays.
Queues back beyond the top of the ramps at Waterloo at 9am today,
which usually means at least one train out of service.
Who on earth thought running a timetable that required 100%
availability was a good idea?

So you would rather they always ran a four train service, even when all
five trains are available? It seems better to run five trains when
possible, and accept that sometimes one will be out of service.


By all means, use all 5 when available. However, during the 2006
'upgrade', commuters were sold a 'capacity increase', which was actually
nothing more than sweating the existing assets by requiring 100% train
availability. This was never going to be realistic in the long term,
especially given the reliability of 1992 stock and the limited
maintenance facilities available.

I thought that it was summer 2005 when they shut the line for upgrading.