On 18 Feb, 13:50, wrote:

On Feb 17, 8:23*pm, Paul Corfield wrote:

I would agree that signal failures are not acceptable but they can
happen for all sorts of reasons. To effect quick turnarounds you need to
roster in "stepping back" which is used at Brixton. However you can't
just magic drivers out of nowhere to make it happen at Warren St or

Why would you have to magic up a driver? The train already has one and
since he can't get to where he was going anyway why can't he just
drive it back in the other direction?

Highbury when there is a major disruption. *I know you'll say that's a
typical useless LUL response but it's an honest one.

All it shows is that LUL have little in the way of fall back
procedures in place when things go pear shaped. A broken door or dodgy
signal should not end up with 5 trains worth of people stuck in a
tunnel for an hour. Broken signal? Fine , drive through it on caution
and let everyone detrain. Whats the problem? Broken door? Reverse
train back into platform , empty pax and take it away again. Sorted.
Why do these simple procedures take LUL hours and hours to sort out?
The odd occasion one can accept , but every single time theres some
failure on a line this sort of thing occurs. *I suspect it will take
someone dying in a stuck train and the relatives suing LUL for a small
fortune before someone pulls the corporate finger out however.


The wider disruption on the Victoria line on Tuesday morning *was*
caused by a signal failure - see...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7894793.stm
....specifically this bit...
"The cause of the delay was signalling problems [...]".