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

Cast_Iron · December 8th 03, 09:34 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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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.

Why does this take so long ? Surely there should be
software to work it out so what are the hold-ups?

I don't think it's that simple, plus they've also had to
prepare the christmas/New year timetables and duty sheets
for the whole combine.

It is pretty simple, you have a track, you have trains you
have drivers, all having contraints having an optimal usage.

You imply this is done by hand ias Xmas/NYE is an issue;
given the network unreliability it should be paramount to
be able to maxmise what you have available and be able to
implement it ASAP. This does require certain staff
flexibility - is this avaiable? Does LU beleive it does not
need to plan for contingencies and have these sorts of
tools available?

Oooooh look, someone else who thinks all jobs are simple, except his own.