On Nov 11, 4:47*pm, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 16:12:58 on
Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Graham Harrison
remarked:

Visitors to World Travel Market are advised that London Underground is
currently experiencing delays on the Docklands Light Rail (DLR) between
Bank Station and Shadwell Station.
1) I heard something very similar yesterday. * Is there any relation
between the 2 incidents?

I expect it's like the travel news I heard in Sunday that said trains
were disrupted because of works to the Bradway tunnel (south of
Sheffield). Yes, they would be, the tunnel's closed for three months!
But somehow they made it sound like it was just that day.

The DLR seems to be permanently borked in the vicinity of Excel.

It's completely scrude again tonight. So this morning it was
equipment failures between Shadwell and Bank, now it's signalling
problems at Greenwich.

I get the feeling that it was built so much on the cheap in the 1980s
that it is completely falling apart. One could hope that the problems
are due to all the work going on, but there seems to be more to it
than that. Escalators needing to be replaced after only 17 years is
an example.

Given that it's the only PAYG route from the south east and is often
closed, whether planned or not, it really really is about time that
SET was forced/paid to accept PAYG at least from Lewisham/Greenwich.