Victoria line today around 1030
 

Afternoon all,

Got the Vic at Finsbury Park, heading for Euston. Got as far as King's
Cross more or less alright. Then got an announcement: "this train is being
held here, as there is planned engineering work at Victoria; the engineers
will be on the line for about ten minutes". Got off and headed over to the
Northern line, to get to Euston; as i went down the escalator, heard an
announcement that the Victoria line was now suspended.

Firstly, any idea what it was about?

Secondly, am i right in assuming the "planned" was a mistake? Seems like a
very, very odd time to make a possession ...

tom

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Victoria line today around 1030
 

In message , Tom
Anderson writes

Got the Vic at Finsbury Park, heading for Euston. Got as far as King's
Cross more or less alright. Then got an announcement: "this train is
being held here, as there is planned engineering work at Victoria; the
engineers will be on the line for about ten minutes". Got off and
headed over to the Northern line, to get to Euston; as i went down the
escalator, heard an announcement that the Victoria line was now suspended.

Firstly, any idea what it was about?

Signal failure at Victoria according to the TfL realtime page.
(Also faulty train at Warren Street, although I'm not sure if that was
later).

Secondly, am i right in assuming the "planned" was a mistake?

Sounds like it: engineering work, yes, but not planned!
--
Paul Terry

Victoria line today around 1030
 

On 14 Feb, 16:56, Paul Terry wrote:
In message , Tom
Anderson writes

Got the Vic at Finsbury Park, heading for Euston. Got as far as King's
Cross more or less alright. Then got an announcement: "this train is
being held here, as there is planned engineering work at Victoria; the
engineers will be on the line for about ten minutes". Got off and
headed over to the Northern line, to get to Euston; as i went down the
escalator, heard an announcement that the Victoria line was now suspended.

Firstly, any idea what it was about?

Signal failure at Victoria according to the TfL realtime page.
(Also faulty train at Warren Street, although I'm not sure if that was
later).

Secondly, am i right in assuming the "planned" was a mistake?

Sounds like it: engineering work, yes, but not planned!

Maybe they meant to say "unplanned", or maybe you mishead it?

Victoria line today around 1030
 

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:56:50 +0000, Paul Terry
wrote:

In message , Tom
Anderson writes

Got the Vic at Finsbury Park, heading for Euston. Got as far as King's
Cross more or less alright. Then got an announcement: "this train is
being held here, as there is planned engineering work at Victoria; the
engineers will be on the line for about ten minutes". Got off and
headed over to the Northern line, to get to Euston; as i went down the
escalator, heard an announcement that the Victoria line was now suspended.

Firstly, any idea what it was about?

Signal failure at Victoria according to the TfL realtime page.
(Also faulty train at Warren Street, although I'm not sure if that was
later).

Warren St was later - line ended up suspended H&I - Brixton.

More info tomorrow when I see the daily report.

Secondly, am i right in assuming the "planned" was a mistake?

Sounds like it: engineering work, yes, but not planned!

Planned in the sense that LU allowed them on to the tracks but not
planned in the sense of a long planned possession.
--
Paul C


Admits to working for London Underground!

Victoria line today around 1030
 

On 14 Feb, 18:27, Paul Corfield wrote:
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:56:50 +0000, Paul Terry

wrote:
In message , Tom
Anderson writes

(snip)

Secondly, am i right in assuming the "planned" was a mistake?

Sounds like it: engineering work, yes, but not planned!

Planned in the sense that LU allowed them on to the tracks but not
planned in the sense of a long planned possession.
--
Paul C

Admits to working for London Underground!


Are you sure you're not practising for an appearance before the
Assembly's transport committee Paul?!

Victoria line today around 1030
 

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Paul Corfield wrote:

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:56:50 +0000, Paul Terry
wrote:

In message , Tom
Anderson writes

Got the Vic at Finsbury Park, heading for Euston. Got as far as King's
Cross more or less alright. Then got an announcement: "this train is
being held here, as there is planned engineering work at Victoria; the
engineers will be on the line for about ten minutes". Got off and
headed over to the Northern line, to get to Euston; as i went down the
escalator, heard an announcement that the Victoria line was now
suspended.

Firstly, any idea what it was about?

Signal failure at Victoria according to the TfL realtime page. (Also
faulty train at Warren Street, although I'm not sure if that was
later).

Warren St was later - line ended up suspended H&I - Brixton.

Righto.

Secondly, am i right in assuming the "planned" was a mistake?

Sounds like it: engineering work, yes, but not planned!

Planned in the sense that LU allowed them on to the tracks but not
planned in the sense of a long planned possession.

Genius! So is there also unplanned engineering work, where the navvies
just bundle past the platform staff and fix things before anyone can stop
them, then?

tom

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Victoria line today around 1030
 

Genius! So is there also unplanned engineering work, where the navvies
just bundle past the platform staff and fix things before anyone can stop
them, then?

Unplanned engineering work is where something fails (such as the
signal failure at Victoria yesterday) and staff have to go down to fix
the failure. Proper protection for staff on the track has to be put
in place, they don't just "bundle down and fix things before anyone
can stop them".
The defective train was later on, around 13.30ish IIRC. It had to be
pushed out (i.e. pushed by another train).

Victoria line today around 1030
 

On Feb 15, 10:48 am, wrote:
Unplanned engineering work is where something fails (such as the
signal failure at Victoria yesterday) and staff have to go down to fix
the failure. Proper protection for staff on the track has to be put
in place, they don't just "bundle down and fix things before anyone
can stop them".

Sarcasm is obviously wasted on some people.

B2003

Victoria line today around 1030
 

Tom Anderson wrote:
Afternoon all,

Got the Vic at Finsbury Park, heading for Euston. Got as far as King's
Cross more or less alright. Then got an announcement: "this train is
being held here, as there is planned engineering work at Victoria; the
engineers will be on the line for about ten minutes". Got off and headed
over to the Northern line, to get to Euston; as i went down the
escalator, heard an announcement that the Victoria line was now suspended.

Firstly, any idea what it was about?

Secondly, am i right in assuming the "planned" was a mistake? Seems like
a very, very odd time to make a possession ...

Funny, because yeserday, I was on the Vic at Tottenham Hale at about
0945 and there were delays most of the way - then when we got to Warren
Street, they terminated it, giving a problem at Victoria as the reason.
Maybe they fixed it last night but it recurred (not "scheduled", I know)?

Victoria line today around 1030
 

On 14 Feb 2007 17:09:50 -0800, "Mizter T" wrote:

On 14 Feb, 18:27, Paul Corfield wrote:
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:56:50 +0000, Paul Terry

wrote:
In message , Tom
Anderson writes

(snip)

Secondly, am i right in assuming the "planned" was a mistake?

Sounds like it: engineering work, yes, but not planned!

Planned in the sense that LU allowed them on to the tracks but not
planned in the sense of a long planned possession.

Are you sure you're not practising for an appearance before the
Assembly's transport committee Paul?!

Not that I'm aware of. Thankfully Mr O'Toole usually gets that job.
--
Paul C


Admits to working for London Underground!