London Banter - View Single Post - Camden Town and Hammersmith derailments

[email protected] · December 5th 03, 04:28 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(David Walters) wrote:

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 21:08 +0000 (GMT Standard Time), Colin Rosenstiel
wrote:
Didn't you read the press release? It makes clear the intention to
restore the Northern Line service:

"The current Northern line service sees trains running Edgware to
Morden via Bank only and High Barnet to Morden via Charing Cross
only. London Underground and Tube Lines are working to reintroduce a
full service on the line as soon as possible and hope to be able to
do this early in the New Year."

The press release seems to disagree with the Interim Report which says:

This service pattern is being delivered by the current team
of Train operators whose duties are designed around the
integrated service pattern operated before the derailment.
Thus the train service is currently being delivered in an
inefficient manner.

A new timetable designed around the dedicated branch service
pattern is in production, aimed at being available in January
2004.

I think we are going to have the split service for many months to come.

David

The Northern Line should hopefully be back to a 91 train timetable
starting 4 January - we should get the new duties and analysis sheets at
the beginning of next week. There will be stepping back at Morden as per
TT48, however there will still be no through City trains to the Barnet
branch and, I assume no Barnet branch trains through the City because as
far as I'm aware, the SB route is still secured for the CX side.

There are rumours (and have been for some time) that the line will revert
to the original timetable in March. However this is reliant on the Camden
Town issues being sorted out by then and may well be later than March.

Roger