On 2 Oct, 00:50, "Q" ..@.. wrote:
"Richard J." wrote in message

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(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.

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

"Richard J." wrote in message
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- 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'

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.

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David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig

I hate baby seals. They get asked to all the best clubs.

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