On Nov 11, 6:39*pm, Mizter T wrote:
On 11 Nov, 18:14, MIG wrote:





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.

What equipment I wonder?

Thinking about it, they said that services between Shadwell and
Bank ... due to equipment failure ... so the escalator theory is
possible, without the equipment itself being between Shadwell and
Bank.

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.

Hmm, I don't think so - today's DLR is very different from what it was
on opening. The signalling system has changed entirely (or almost
entirely) since then.

It's certainly different from the early noughties when I used to
commute on it quite a lot because it was the slow but reliable
option. Now it's the even slower and totally unreliable option. I
tend only to use it on my PAYG days, or I would if it ever ran ...