London Banter - View Single Post - It's all kicking off on the Piccadilly Line

[email protected] · January 17th 16, 05:06 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On 17.01.16 17:13, Recliner wrote:
wrote:
On 16.01.16 23:17, Recliner wrote:
Basil Jet wrote:
Some butterfly valve has failed, and it's a recurring failure, happening
half a dozen times in the last three years according to the union reps,
or two or three times according to the management. Large numbers of
drivers are refusing to drive the trains and managers are being called
in on their rest days to handle the crisis. The valve is rumoured to be
connected with the doors. There's no mention of this on TfL's site.

Presumably that's the reason the Picc is part-suspended this evening, "due
to a temporary shortage of train operators"?

Do you know what's the consequence of the butterfly valve failing?

If it is the butterfly valve (the one that controls doors on each car,
right?) that has failed. Then why the big ordeal?

The train just needs to be pulled, so have the driver dump his load, hit
the interlock and be on his merry way?

Latest Piccadilly line tweets:

(1/2) We are very sorry for the delays to Piccadilly line services this
weekend. Following an incident with one train door,
(2/2) we carried out checks on all of the fleet which shows that this was
an isolated incident.

Oh for f* sake! These things happen! Why do they have to make a big
thing out of one simple little malfunction? Just dump the load, get the
train bank to a depot and fix the door. It probably just needs a good
kick in any event.