W&C timetable oddities
On 2 Oct, 00:50, "Q" ..@.. wrote:
"Richard J." wrote in message . com... (The W&C used to do "stepping back" at one or both ends of the journey -- * I'm not sure if they still do.) Yep still do at both ends. Only in the peaks though. The TO who brings the unit in takes the next one out. And as to Barry's comment; Yes anything so very small breaks the entire drain quite often. For a line with 6 units and 2 stations is has a very poor record. The W&C has five trains made up of 4 cars (ten x two car units in total), part of the problem during the peak is that all five trains are in service, so reliability can suffer when a train is unavailable. |
W&C timetable oddities
On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 03:40:53 -0700 (PDT)
Andy wrote: The obvious thing to do would be to make both tunnels bi-directional and effectively have 2 seperate services running - one train goes up and down 1 tunnel, another train goes up and down the other. So if one service dies you've still got the other one. And this means that only have two trains can run at once rather than the five you get, during the peak, at the moment. The W&C is a bit too long to run as independent tunnels. I thought the service was only 2 trains? Oh well, I haven't been on the line for about 10 years. But even so , having the tunnels bi directional would mean that if a train died or points failed you could still run some semblence of a service. B2003 |
W&C timetable oddities
"Richard J." wrote in message . com... - and half of those incidents would be avoided if they used both platforms. So why don't they? Surely it can't be to save wear and tear on those NEW points, can it? Where they actually new or was it the same as some other aspects of the re-furb ? Given the have only just managed to get the clocks at both enf of the line in sync I can't think they would of been able to actually fix anything else... And I though there was 6 units, with 5 in service & 1 'spare' |
W&C timetable oddities
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W&C timetable oddities
On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:45:52 +0100
David Cantrell wrote: On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 10:49:49AM +0000, wrote: I thought the service was only 2 trains? Oh well, I haven't been on the line for about 10 years. But even so , having the tunnels bi directional would mean that if a train died or points failed you could still run some semblence of a service. I would have thought that running such a reduced service would lead to terrible over-crowding so it would be shut down to stop the crowd from pushing people off the platforms. As opposed to it happening on the northern line instead? B2003 |
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