On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 10:36:28 -0700 (PDT), Mizter T
wrote:


On Sep 21, 5:43*pm, Stephen Furley wrote:

On 21 Sep, 16:54, "Paul Scott" wrote:

One of the board papers for the 22nd Sept meeting is a four page summary
of the recently discussed incidents:

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloa...-Incidents.pdf

Includes the Northern line Rail Grinding Train runaway, and it turns out a
previous incident on the Jubilee line with the same train! * .

"In the 20 July incident on the Jubilee line, the RGT failed for the
first time since its first use by TL on LU infrastructure in 2002. The
RGT was recovered using out-of-service Jubilee line passenger trains
to, first, propel and then, later, tow the RGT from West Hampstead to
Neasden Depot. This caused a number of difficulties and resulted in
serious delays to the Jubilee line service until around 10.20 hrs."

It would be interesting to know what the 'difficulties' were with the
recovery of the RGT after the first falure.

Possibly mainly the bleedin' obvious[TM] as it was in daytime during
the week and passenger services would have been suspended in the
vicinity of the recovery and consequently elsewhere.

*It is a bit odd that
there should have been two failures within short period, given the
generally good reliability of the machine.

Sounds as though whatever broke didn't then get fixed properly.