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You're mistaken in that belief. Manual driving (which is supported by cab signalling and ATP) is mandatory on Sundays and bank holidays on specified sections of the ATC lines (Victoria excepted), and permissible under certain circumstances at all other times of the week/all parts of the lines...

The trains are not the issue per se, but the signalling system. You could introduce new trains tomorrow, but without enhancing or replacing the signalling system there would still be insufficient line capacity through Turnham Green to allow Piccadilly line trains to call without causing...

Depends on your motivation. Basic pay is better at Crossrail and you + a nominee get free travel on TfL services in addition to the usual travel perks TOC staff get. Training is also shorter so you'd probably end up on post-qualified rate of pay at a similar time to that if you went with GWR...

The down side to manual driving on the Central is that many of the block marker boards are appallingly sited and the design itself camouflages nicely with the surroundings in many places in the open sections. Route knowledge compensates for this though, obviously. When driving in protected...

7535+7030 were awaiting removal by road from LTM Acton as of yesterday AM.

Apart from D Stock when the saloon door open circuit for the appropriate side is energised. Not sure when that mod came in - at refurb possibly?

Not forgetting 5234 at Neasden.

I had it in my mind that the Vic went up to 750 once DTG-R was fully implemented and the '67s had all gone, but apparently not?.

Where does that document say both RATs are getting two trailers? In any case, they aren't; the formation will be DM-UNDM-T-UNDM-DM (existing car types, no doubt the intermediate ones will acquire different designations appropriate to their new characteristics). So only one trailer per train...

That gets decided overnight, it could end up on any set working or might not come out at all if it's in for maintenance.

Not possible, for reasons I've already mentioned. Specifically the CSDE/SDO and OPO-CCTV equipment between Aldgate East and Upminster is not configured for S8 passenger operation.

S8s are not allowed to operate in passenger service between Liverpool St. and Barking, nor do Metropolitan line drivers have the requisite route knowledge. Are you sure you were on an S8? Did you make a note of a car number? If it was an automated announcement then it's possible the driver...

ST stands for special trailer. Although the term is not generally applied to the trailer car on a double ended 1973 stock or D stock unit (perhaps it is in fleet/engineering, but it isn't in operations). The only stocks with special trailers, from an operations perspective, are 1972 (the...

Not going to happen, and hasn't been expected to for some time.

That is the case for both tube and surface stock, yes.

That last happened in the early 2000s, although the train didn't make it quite that far. It was well clear of the limit of current rails by the time the driver realised his error and stopped though.

Long gone from the Central since ATP came in, I would say the Picc has the only working examples left.

Speed control signals would only clear if the train was travelling at or below the requisite speed on approach to the signal - this was measured either by track circuits or a length of dummy conductor rail. The speed control signals at Holborn did not clear for precisely that reason on that...

https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/careers/tubelines-roles Closes 5th August 2016, contrary to what the .docx file says.