On 19 Feb, 18:01, " wrote:
On Feb 18, 9:10*pm, Paul Corfield wrote:





On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:16:56 -0800 (PST), Mizter T
wrote:

On 18 Feb, 15:07, " wrote:
Anyone wants to share his/her experience with the recent problems on
the Jubilee line? *I just had a very bad day this morning again at the
Canning Town station. *When I got there this morning, the next train
wasn't there until another 10 minutes. *And of course, I could not get
on to a train until another next 2 trains as they were fully packed.
So in total, I waited for almost 18 mins on the platform! *This is
really an unacceptable service.

I'm pretty sure I would have joined the heaving masses in the first
train, or maybe just waited for the second, but not beyond that. Did
you go to one end of the platform - the ends of the train are often
less packed. Out of interest which way were you going? I shall guess
it was westwards towards Canary Wharf/ central London...

I don't think you would have done. Assuming it was the rush hour then it
isn't that easy to get on a w/b train at Canning Town on a normal
headway. It would have been impossible with a ten minute gap in the
service. *The flows at Stratford are just never ending - goodness knows
what it'll be like once all of the improved services are in place!

I attended what is called the Ops Committee last week and it was on the
Jubilee Line. The Line General Manager showed two graphs which showed
the growth in traffic, in both directions in the peak, over the last two
years. All of the 7th car capacity increase has been eaten up. The
extent of growth is quite amazing.

The Jubilee Line has had a rough few months and an awful lot of work is
being done to get it back to normal. *This was all said in front of Tim
O'Toole so you can rest assured he will want to see it all delivered.

Obviously something had gone wrong somewhere, perhaps a signal fault
or someone activated an emergency alarm - what information were you
given over the PA?

Haven't seen the daily report but I fear it might be either a signal or
train issue - too many of those of late.

--
Paul C

Admits to working for London Underground!

Paul,
There was a signal failure at Stradford. *My purpose of bring the
Jubilee line topic up is to basically see if there are others who are
thinking the same thing as I do. *The performance of the Jubilee line
is deteriorating to a point which is not very bearable considering the
DLR at Bank station is a mess as well.

I also travelled on the Jubilee line on last Sat. *There was a
supsension beyond Waterloo and the rest of the line in the west side.
Basically there problem is ongoing.

Maybe it started badly and then went into a decline ...

Actually, my main experience was back in 2000 or so, when five-or-more-
minute intervals were normal in the rush hour if it was running and
there were constant signal failures. Maybe it's got better in
between, but I don't use it so much.

("Is there a Sunday service on the JLE?" "Yes, every day.")