Yup, My guess was correct, they terminated at West Ruislip. No idea why they were told they would continue when nothing else was.
Isn’t it track circuit faliure most of the times?
If a track circuit fails anywhere along a set route through junction points after the signal has cleared, sectional route locking over any points beyond the failure will be held indefinitely. That prevents the signaller individually controlling the points to the opposite position even after the signals have all been successfully replaced. The interlocking thinks the signalled train has passed the signal and therefore must hold the route locked until all the track circuits up to and over the junction are clear. Copying previous French high speed principles, HS1 introduced a 'Local Release of signal controls' facility, operated by first response technicians attending the site, allowing points to be moved remotely by the signaller under such circumstances, once the tech has confirmed the points are functional and there is no train on or approaching them. Elsewhere in UK, NR typically relies on local operators going out to manually wind or pump point mechanisms while technicians tackle the initiating TC failure. The location of the fault, the points, the number and location of suitable staff at the time, and what's going on elsewhere simultaneously, etc all play a part in how fast response and rectification can be achieved.
I thought it was said that the Track Circuit Failure was on the line leaving the station so surely trains being able to get into the station doesn’t mean trains can leave.
They tweeted no trains all evening, then 40 minutes later have said oh no trains will run hourly. Rightfully some quite unhappy people in the replies.
True.
I was P2 to down main, which I think crosses all up routes except into p1
Yeah I was thinking that too.
If that’s the information they were given by NR and then the situation changed, that’s hardly Chiltern’s fault.
Why on earth can they not insert a West Ruislip stop into one of the trains? It’s really poor to tell people to go to West Ruislip to get trains because there are none at Marylebone, only for there to be trains from Marylebone and not West Ruislip.
I know! Trains have been passing through apparently semi-empty (probably because everyone’s given up and taken another route).
Well, I was on the 1H66 which is going through to Marylebone. They put on an extra train from Banbury 1H67 I think. Lots of announcements on the 1H66 saying there will a train starting from Banbury with lots of space. Even routed 1H66 onto platform 2 so cross platform interchange onto platform 1 for the 1H67. I counted precise 0 passengers taking that option. So there is a rather empty train heading that way.
That’s what my friend was told by a member of staff there
No it doesn’t. It stops at South Ruislip but not West Ruislip, so you could get the Central line to South Ruislip I suppose.
Sometimes it would make sense for companies to have an alternative terminus for when things go belly up.
In an ideal world this is a great idea.
