On Thu, 24 Nov 2016 09:42:21 -0000 (UTC)
Recliner wrote:
wrote:
On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 21:34:51 +0000
BirchangerKen wrote:
On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 10:16:47 -0000 (UTC), Recliner
wrote:
These 40+ year old trains are expected to soldier on for the best part of a
decade before the NTfLs replace them, so I hope the problem is temporary.

The fly-on-the-wall series on the Tube a while back made much of the
73s being LUL's oldest stock, and how difficult it was keeping it in
service. One of the programmes was partly based around the fact that
there were, I think, 17 trains (units?) out of service due to failts
that day.

I'm fairly sure I remember as a kid , if there was a door fault on a car the
driver would get everyone out of it then somehow disable the doors on that
car only so no one could get in except via the gangway doors (which most
wouldn't do because then they couldn't get off in time if it was in the rush
hour). Now if theres any fault on a door anywhere on a train they take the
entire train out of service.

There was a similar issue with the 73s a few months ago (when a door opened
uncommanded in a moving train), but I thought that had been fixed. In that
case, the drivers refused to take them out. This seems to be different.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-35337580

That video of "doors opening on a moving train" is pretty obviously simply
down to a driver who opened the doors 1 second before the train had fully
stopped. Happens fairly often in my experience. Good to see the BBC keeping
up their usual standards of not having a clue.

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Spud