Recent content by notverydeep

This is just an early example. The DfT is asking all TOCs to look at this to save some cost. There will be more next year in other areas. Likely to be some Fridays excepted trains too…

Yes sorry - brain failure - I mean 3532! I have edited the original post to (hopefully) avoid further confusion... As you say, 3260 is in traffic - currently passing Oxford Circus SB on train 206 with 3558.

It appears that 3260 3532 is still stopped, weirdly with the estimated return to service date now set to 30th December. It is still listed as being stopped for programmed lift, but also awaiting materials.

Just shows that I shouldn’t rely on the track plan. I’ve walked along the side of the shed often enough when visiting Osborne House…

If the incident train has locked the whole site, perhaps it stopped short rather than long? That could mean it was partially fouling the crossover behind with the route into platform 9 remaining locked in consequence….

Sorry, I should have remembered that post and stand corrected. Clearly challenging but possible given what’s been removed! Presumably it is on the front berth of a double length road. I’ll have to check to see if anything is shown as behind it…

3260 / 3532 are now in for their Programmed Lift (overhaul). It is not unusual for long term stopped units to have to return for the normal heavy exam cycle soon after return to traffic from specific project works or modifications. Normal heavy maintenance work will be performed by different...

Number 6 should be in the next few weeks (I think it’s already moved from Acton to Ruislip for outstanding maintenance) and number 7 isn’t to far behind…

Yes. Historically, the London Underground closed overnight to allow for maintenance and cleaning works. It also had a later start of traffic and earlier close of traffic on Sundays. This is likely to have reflected lower demand (as this would have been before Sunday opening of most shops would...

An to add, if you need - it is currently on its way into town just past Buckhurst Hill on train 32 heading for West Ruislip...

The pandemic delayed CLIP design work and caused some components to be in short supply. If there had been total flexibility, these would probably have delayed the project by around a year. But the bigger impact was that the programme included the normal planned overhaul (Programmed Lift and...

I have the composition including 91009 as 91321-93078-93174-91009 in today's list...

Note that there are sometimes cases of 1400s being substituted for units. I was in the Douro for a few days this summer and we observed IR861 / 866 to be a unit throughout on one day (8 August), but a 1400 the next. There was also some significant delay that day due to a 1400 failure on a later...

Passengers will self-evacuate from stranded trains. There are a number of variables that will influence how long it will be before this occurs, including perceived proximity to viable alternative routes, such as a station, road or obvious settlement. Weather conditions, the level of crowding...

At least until the 1990s freight trains departing Westbury through Dilton Marsh towards Warminster (the summit being at Upton Scudamore) were often banked uncoupled. The line climbs around 60 metres over four kilometres. I’ve no idea whether banking still occurs routinely…