Recent content by Skoodle

No, it's just removing an extra cause of delays. The 5mph speed restriction is by Canal Junction, which is used by Crystal Palace/West Croydon and New Cross trains. Clapham services are not affected. It looks like control have taken the decision to remove the New Crosses to fully use the 8...

I know this is a bit late, but morning shift drivers were cabbed to the stranded trains to bring them back to the depot. Most of the trains had to be prepped by Alstom before service could commence. The corner of the affected building is very close to the rail infrastructure and as we could...

On the other side of the coin, as someone who works at NXG depot, there's still at least 50-60 drivers who've been there since the depot opened in 2010. It's not for everyone, it can be intense but for a lot of people who start as trainees it's all they know. When you know no different as to...

Funnily enough, it was this exact sign that made New Cross Gate drivers aware that this was happening.

It's sidings only, there's no separate driver depot there. Silwood and the depot are connected directly via an authorised walking route.

One has been installed outside Peckham Rye Station on the Down South London Line, where immediately after the platform the linespeed drops to 20mph.

When they said "new entrance", it's a new station entrance on other side of road outside, including a new footbridge and lifts. There has been a lot of track level work that has gone on, including moving signals, installing a new secondary means of escape whilst the works go on - which involved...

The train detecting which doors to open and the announcement for it are completely separate systems. As I recall, us drivers were given very little notice that it was changing to SDO in the down direction at Surrey Quays. I can imagine that whoever's job it was to update the PIS announcements...

I don't have a picture sorry as I'm a driver, however some new sensors have been installed between Forest Hill and Brockley on the Up Sussex lines. They've only been installed on the Up and not the Down. I'm trying to find out what they are. There's a line of about 20 of them in various places...

A passenger asked me "which train is the first to leave?" "Where are you travelling to?" I asked back. "Work".

Cursed by autocorrect there, it's Silwood Sidings.

Apologies, I wasn't so clear in my earlier reply. One coach is off the juice in the station, so we get a yellow fault "MOS Loss of DC supply". It also happens approaching Old Kent Road Jn (towards Clapham). There's a large section gap on approach to the signal protecting the junction, so will...

It's the train fault alarm. There's a large third rail gap in the platform, so the train has a panic attack when stopped over it for too long.

I drive that line, that gap can be quite unforgiving sometimes. I usually take it up to 20mph and coast until the end of the conductor rail on the left, then I'll take power again. It does struggle, especially if you didn't get up to a decent coasting speed, even more so during low adhesion. It...

The Olympic Line would have been perfect, unfortunately IOC's trademarks prohibit use of the words “Olympic”, “Olympiad” and “Olympic Games” - so could never have been an option.