"Steve Fitzgerald" ] wrote in message

In message , James
Farrar writes

I often travel east from Northfields at that time of day (well, any
time between 5:30 and 9:30), and it's not at all unusual to end up
on the outside (District) platform). I would estimate it happens to
me more often than once a fortnight.

There's a crossover from the EB fast to the EB local just west of
Acton Town. In 7 years, I think I've only been routed over it about 3
times. I note that EB 261 and 315 (ex Northfields at 2101 and 2142
respectively) are booked to do this move although I've never seen it
so it may be an Acton turn that does it.

You could, of course have travelled east along the EB local/test track
from Northfields.

I was travelling from the Rayner's Lane branch, which often uses
platform 4 at Acton Town. I hadn't realised that the Northfields branch
also sometimes used this platform, either from the fast or the local
lines. It was also the only time I've ever noticed two WB Piccadilly
line trains at Acton Town, with both getting green signals. The obvious
penny didn't drop till after we'd departed the station and stayed on the
local line.

In article ,
(Recliner) wrote:

"Steve Fitzgerald" ] wrote in message

In message , James
Farrar writes

I often travel east from Northfields at that time of day (well, any
time between 5:30 and 9:30), and it's not at all unusual to end up
on the outside (District) platform). I would estimate it happens to
me more often than once a fortnight.

There's a crossover from the EB fast to the EB local just west of
Acton Town. In 7 years, I think I've only been routed over it about 3
times. I note that EB 261 and 315 (ex Northfields at 2101 and 2142
respectively) are booked to do this move although I've never seen it
so it may be an Acton turn that does it.

You could, of course have travelled east along the EB local/test track
from Northfields.

I was travelling from the Rayner's Lane branch, which often uses
platform 4 at Acton Town. I hadn't realised that the Northfields
branch also sometimes used this platform, either from the fast or
the local lines. It was also the only time I've ever noticed two
WB Piccadilly line trains at Acton Town, with both getting green
signals. The obvious penny didn't drop till after we'd departed
the station and stayed on the local line.

Looking at the EB local/test track from Northfields today it definitely
seemed a bit under-used, if not totally rusty, particularly so close to
the junction at the bottom of Ealing bank. How many daily trains are
scheduled to use it? I see the EB platforms at Acton Town are labelled
District Platform 4, Piccadilly Platforms 3 & 4, by the way.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

In article ,
(Recliner) wrote:

*Subject:* Unusual Piccadilly movement at Acton Town
*From:* "Recliner"
*Date:* Sun, 5 Apr 2009 00:29:09 +0100

I was on a westbound Piccadilly Line train from the Rayner's lane
branch at about 6:45pm on Friday that stopped for a while at Acton
Town, waiting for a relief driver. So far, nothing unusual, but
then another westbound Piccadilly train pulled into platform 4 (the
westbound District platform). Normally only trains from Ealing
Common do this; I don't know which branch the second train had come
from. It would be surprising if another Rayner's Lane train had
been following our train so closely, but very rare for a train from
the Heathrow direction to be using that section of (test) track.

The second train was the first to leave Acton Town, and I dashed
across when I heard the doors beeping. To my considerable surprise,
we stayed on the District tracks, running non-stop to Hammersmith.
The other train (ie, the one I'd moved from) overtook us along the
way, and was leaving Hammersmith just as we arrived there at the
District platform.

I can't remember any previous occasion when Piccadilly Line trains
ran in parallel on both westbound tracks, with both running
non-stop. As far as I'm aware, the District service was running,
and I think we must have been following a District stopper, which
is why the other Picc train overtook us.

Does this sort of thing happen often, and what could have made it
necessary? Or did someone make a mistake?

Can we all assume you are confusing West and East?

--
Colin Rosenstiel

wrote in message


Can we all assume you are confusing West and East?

Yes, I plead guilty.

On Sun, 5 Apr 2009 00:29:09 +0100, Recliner wrote:

Does this sort of thing happen often, and what could have made it
necessary? Or did someone make a mistake?

I once experienced something similar on the Met. I was on a fast
eastbound train that stopped (as usual) in platform 6 at
Harrow-on-the-Hill. But as we pulled out of the station, to my
surprise, we took the crossover to the slow line. However, we still
didn't stop at the intermediate stations (and we certainly didn't slow
to 5mph for the starter signals, either).