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LU strike and possible knock-on effects on NR / LO services [was:Tube strike]
On Jun 6, 1:05*pm, Paul Corfield wrote: On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 04:55:47 -0700 (PDT), Mizter T wrote: On Jun 5, 11:28 pm, Paul Corfield wrote: [snip] True but the OP has not indicated what their particular requirements are. It might be there is some clever way of getting about that he has not considered. *I appreciate there are no guarantees about being able to get on trains, DLR or buses but there may be options by being "unconventional" that people would not routinely consider. *People also need to bear in mind that a number of former NR stations are now LUL managed and therefore might well be affected - the former Silverlink stations! *This creates new problems and restrictions - especially in NW London. Good point about the ex-Silverlink stations now under LUL management - that's all stations from Harrow & Wealdstone to Queen's Park with the exception of Willesden Jn, Kew Gardens, Gunnersbury, plus there's the other stations where LU now "manage" the Overground platforms - i.e. West Brompton, Highbury & Islington, Blackhorse Road. Err I thought Gunnersbury and Kew Gardens were with LU now. That's what I said - but re-reading it, I see it wasn't at all clear - the exception I was speaking of was simply Willesden Jn on the H&W to Queen's Park stretch of the DC lines - Kew Gardens and Gunnersbury were just meant to be in the list of LUL managed stations. Then there's stations where LUL manages the main bit of the station though not the National Rail platforms - e.g. West Ham, Seven Sisters, Stratford. Correct. *Tottenham Hale in terms of the ticket office but there is independent access to the NR platforms, similar applies to Walthamstow Central. Well of course the NR side of Walthamstow Central can operate quite independently as the ticket offices aren't in the LU bit (of course you know all this very well!). At Tottenham Hale there's at least one if not two NR ticket machines outside the LU building in the covered area near the platforms - NXEA could just send some RPIs up there to sell tickets. I'm guessing that LU would deploy what staff they had so as to cover these major interchange stations, but maybe there wouldn't be enough suitably qualified staff to cover the Harrow & Wealdstone to Queen's Park stretch? That said, weren't some of these stations unmanned for at least some of the day in the Silverlink era? I doubt the ex Silverlink stations could run unmanned today as I believe there have been changes to the safety case etc. *Not 100% certain on this point. Which is an interesting follow-on discussion in and of itself - though I hesitate to follow that line of discussion without being in full possession of the facts. And what about Chiltern Railways - there's the question of whether they could call at their normal LU stations - i.e. Amersham, Chalfont & Latimer, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, Harrow-on-the-Hill - but is there also any question about whether they could actually run - are the LU signallers going on strike too? Even if they could call at those stations. [Sorry, unfinished sentence alert! I'll finish this point below...] It's all RMT staff so that includes the signal staff so even if ASLEF drivers predominate on a line then it could be as in the past where lack of signal staff mean few if any trains run. OK, thanks for clearing that up. As I was going to say before I interrupted myself(!)... Even if they (Chiltern Railway) could call at those stations (i.e. the LU stations on the Aylesbury route), they might not want to as their trains could end up being overrun. But if there's no signallers, then they wouldn't be able to run a service at all. (I suppose Chiltern could possibly run a Harrow-on-the-Hill to Marylebone shuttle if a few non-striking LU signallers could be found - though are there any crossovers south of HotH?) [For those reading this thread on utl, sorry for the cross-posting confusion - I've x-posted two separate parts of a uk.railway thread to utl, hence the somewhat non-sequiter nature of how this appears in utl.] |
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