In message , Clive
writes
If you want a 21st century railway, that's the price, otherwise have
four wheel coaches with gas lighting and steam hauled to boot. Your
choice.

I think it's exactly that kind of attitude within the public transport
sector that explains why a section of track, that has been closed almost
every weekend for about the last year, is once again being taken out of
service. Just out of interest, do you work for Metronet or LUL by any
chance?

Most companies who had to close a section of their business over such a
long period, would take advantage of that closure and undertake any
other planned work (for that area) at the same time.

A few weeks ago there was an TFL puff piece in the Metro about how the
Wembley work had been finished on time and the weekend service would be
back to normal by the end of May. Strangely enough It didn't mention
that it would only be back to normal for 2 weeks :-)

Dave


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Dave B

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:23:22 +0100, Clive
wrote:

In message , daveb
writes

This weekend the Met line will be closed between Wembley Park and
Aldgate. This is despite that stretch of line closing almost every
weekend from September 2004 to may 2005 for the Wembley rebuild.

During that time Chiltern railways put on extra trains to cope with the
mass of people trying to get to/from London, but as Marylebone is now
closed most weekends in June/July there will be no direct link into
London from Amersham southwards.

Couple of questions:

Was it really not possible to do this work on the Met line during the
past 30 odd weekends?

Who is responsible for co-ordinating work between network rail and
Metronet to try and ensure this kind of thing doesn't happen?

Dave
If you want a 21st century railway, that's the price, otherwise have
four wheel coaches with gas lighting and steam hauled to boot. Your
choice.

So if they'd done the track replacement during the closures for the
rebuild of Wembley Park, it would only be a 20th century railway, but
this way it's a 21st?

If they postponed the track replacement until after the Chiltern line
is open again, it would be like a regression to the days of steam?

Hmmm...