In article
-september.
org, (Recliner) wrote:

wrote:
In article ,
stuck@home (Peter Able) wrote:

On 24/03/2015 17:26, Recliner wrote:
eastender wrote:
A £5.54bn investment in four London Underground (LU) lines should
improve efficiency, Transport for London (TfL) has claimed.

Work to the District, Circle, Metropolitan and Hammersmith & City
lines will include a new signalling system, new track, longer
platforms and rebuilt train depots.

Tfl said the plans for a new signalling system include the oldest
part of the network built, which was built in 1863 and "belong in a
museum".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-32034660

This, of course, is the long-delayed SSL resignalling contract that
has had at least two false starts so far. The new track, S Stock
trains, depot extensions and platform extensions have already
happened, in some cases, several years ago.

I'm sure looking forward to that two minute service at Chesham

The four minute service on the Circle will make me happy.

I note no-one here has picked up the markedly increased cost.

It's something Roger Ford has written about regularly, and I think the
imminent issue of MR will have more on it. I don't think TfL comes out of
it well.

Roger was tweeting about it yesterday. Nothing about it from him in April's
Modern Railways. My copy came this morning.

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Colin Rosenstiel

wrote:
In article
-september.
, (Recliner) wrote:

wrote:
In article ,
stuck@home (Peter Able) wrote:

On 24/03/2015 17:26, Recliner wrote:
eastender wrote:
A £5.54bn investment in four London Underground (LU) lines should
improve efficiency, Transport for London (TfL) has claimed.

Work to the District, Circle, Metropolitan and Hammersmith & City
lines will include a new signalling system, new track, longer
platforms and rebuilt train depots.

Tfl said the plans for a new signalling system include the oldest
part of the network built, which was built in 1863 and "belong in a
museum".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-32034660

This, of course, is the long-delayed SSL resignalling contract that
has had at least two false starts so far. The new track, S Stock
trains, depot extensions and platform extensions have already
happened, in some cases, several years ago.

I'm sure looking forward to that two minute service at Chesham

The four minute service on the Circle will make me happy.

I note no-one here has picked up the markedly increased cost.

It's something Roger Ford has written about regularly, and I think the
imminent issue of MR will have more on it. I don't think TfL comes out of
it well.

Roger was tweeting about it yesterday. Nothing about it from him in April's
Modern Railways. My copy came this morning.

Yes, I guess he'll write about it next month.