Nine Elms and Battersea Power Station

[xtmw]

Talking about Nine Elms and Battersea. Has anyone noticed it is starting to become quite loud whilst in the tunnels? It's more of a high pitch noise which hurts your ears...

 

[pinkmarie80]

Yes! It’s incredibly loud.

 

[fgwrich]

Talking about Nine Elms and Battersea. Has anyone noticed it is starting to become quite loud whilst in the tunnels? It's more of a high pitch noise which hurts your ears...

Hopefully not as bad as the Jubilee Line Extension? That has to be some of the worst noise on the Underground at the moment.

 

[philthetube]

At least mathematically. I think any capacity lost by the reduction in width would be more than made up by the fact passengers could go "hard" up against the edge and effectively "crush load" the platform which they can't do currently

Hillsborough comes to mind there

 

[leytongabriel]

There are bits of the Victoria line which are pretty terrible too. Isn't a Health and Safety thing to be subjected to such loud noise?

 

[Horizon22]

The Underground generally is getting worse by all accounts. The Central Line has some notorious sections (Liverpool St - Stratford) but other areas are becoming noticeably louder too

 

[thomalex]

i must admit I’d support slower speed to lower noise on the bad sections.

 

[A60stock]

I've read earlier in the thread that PEDs were not installed due to the Northern Line 1995 stock only having another 20 years or so left in service. Surely 20 years is long enough? It would probably be even longer until replacement given the current climate anyway.....

Aren't the PEDs on the Jubilee due for an overhaul or replacement real soon now that they are over 20 years old? Or will they be expected to operate for a full 40-45 years without change and replaced at the same time as the 96 stock?

 

[Taunton]

The Underground generally is getting worse by all accounts. The Central Line has some notorious sections (Liverpool St - Stratford) but other areas are becoming noticeably louder too

Likewise the Jubilee Line Extension. I wonder what has been "value engineered" out of routine maintenance. I presume someone, somewhere, in the LU engineering hierarchy knows what they have changed which is causing this.

 

[Mikey C]

I've read earlier in the thread that PEDs were not installed due to the Northern Line 1995 stock only having another 20 years or so left in service. Surely 20 years is long enough? It would probably be even longer until replacement given the current climate anyway.....

Aren't the PEDs on the Jubilee due for an overhaul or replacement real soon now that they are over 20 years old? Or will they be expected to operate for a full 40-45 years without change and replaced at the same time as the 96 stock?

But then would it really be worth installing platform edge doors on what are already the safest platforms on the Northern Line? And pretty quiet ones too, unlike the JLE ones.

 

[NSE]

Battersea Power Station to Battersea Park or Queenstown Road are both Oyster OSIs and valid for use on maltese cross tickets.

Totally get the NR sign, I think more should be made to promote the OSI’s and short walk interchanges as so many are unaware. But seems a touch misleading to put LO on there! I know technically it’s true, but at 1tpd, is it worth it?! Unless Wandsworth Road is also an OSI?

 

[Thirteen]

Does anyone know if the second entrance for Battersea Power Station on Electric Boulevard has been constructed already or in the process of being constructed?

 

[SynthD]

That area is open to the public, the buildings are occupied. Are they waiting for more units to be open before opening the tube part?

 

[Thirteen]

That area is open to the public, the buildings are occupied. Are they waiting for more units to be open before opening the tube part?

I suspect that might be the case, it's not essential for the second entrance to open right now but it'll be a lot easier to get to the Power Station when it does.

 

[trainfan007]

PEDs are extremely expensive, both to procure and maintain, and are a massive operational headache for numerous reasons. It simply wasn’t worth all this for two stations.

I’m not certain on this, but I suspect both stations may have passive provision for them to be retrofitted.

They did it for the EL so there maybe thats one of the reasons that the price was insanely high.

 

[Cdd89]

Since the NLE (and the recently increased ridership to Battersea Power Station) I’ve noticed a significant increase in passengers unwittingly going around the loop at Kennington.

From what I’ve seen, this is mostly from people who board a terminating train, and who are then loath to leave (despite the driver announcements).

 

[bramling]

Since the NLE (and the recently increased ridership to Battersea Power Station) I’ve noticed a significant increase in passengers unwittingly going around the loop at Kennington.

From what I’ve seen, this is mostly from people who board a terminating train, and who are then loath to leave (despite the driver announcements).

I’ve always thought it would simply be better to advertise terminating trains according to their northbound destination, especially now most trains tend not to sit in the loop for long.

I suspect at some point this is going to have to receive some management focus. There’s already been an incident I believe where someone managed to climb out whilst the train was at a stand. That could have had a nasty outcome on a number of levels.