On Jan 14, 5:47*pm, Mizter T wrote:
On 14 Jan, 17:01, MIG wrote:





On Jan 14, 4:48 pm, "Paul Scott"
wrote:

SWT's advance engineering works info for the Easter weekend shows a 6 tph
service through East Putney. *Will this result in a much reduced District
Line service?

"Two Basingstoke/Alton to Waterloo services per hour, two Woking to Waterloo
services per hour and two Shepperton to Waterloo services per hour diverted
via East Putney. (Sunday: Woking service starts at Guildford; one Kingston
via Shepperton and one Twickenham via Kingston)."

info from SWT website:http://www.southwesttrains.co.uk/SWT...Easter2008.htm

Presumably this will all be a bit harder to organise if/when TfL take full
responsibility for the line at some time in the future, such as at SSL
resignalling?

Paul

I would have thought that the single track approach to East Putney and
crossing all the Putney tracks on the flat might be a bigger problem.

I forget how the lines there are paired - UIVMM it changed fairly
recently. But the single track up to East Putney is on the southern
side of the four mainline tracks and hence comes off one of the down
lines - so up trains are the ones that will cause more disturbances
here. (Without looking at Quail, which isn't to hand, I forget which
location Point Pleasant junction actually refers to - the junction
with the mainline or with the District line at East Putney station.)

They are paired by direction, but it's a bit odd in that the down fast
is the outer, while the up slow is the outer on the other side.

So if diverted trains used fast tracks, it would minimise the
disruption (or maximise it if they used the slow tracks). In fact, it
looks like you can't reach the up slow track anyway.

Point Pleasant seems to be the section between the mainline and the
side platforms at East Putney (the join to the District coming south
of the station).

Avoiding both Putney trains and District line trains either side of
the junction must be quite a challenge.

Though LUL contracts Network Rail to signal the line from East Putney
(or from Putney Bridge in fact) down to Wimbledon, so theoretically at
least there could be a slightly more co-ordinated approach (or just a
jam of backed up District line trains being held at East Putney so a
diverted SWT service can get down there first).

By the way, I've often seen empty stock going that way in the last
year or two, using the down fast at the end of the morning peak. I
assume that sort of thing is regular.