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It certainly was operated by a 700.... Siemens Engineers managed to talk the driver through the fault. Most of the delay was in emergency egressing the doors to allow the passengers to alight before the driver could fault-find. Some people have short memories.... The delays when the...

In service this morning were 442401/402/404/405/406/408/411/414/417 and 421.

F I've posted comments earlier in the thread.... Having been involved with DOO since BR days, then my opinions won't count for anything anyway!

Why not?

The first 10 car working starts on Monday 25th July;- 5E10 05+30 Selhurst Depot to Uckfield 1E10 07 05 Uckfield to London Bridge 1L81 08 32 London Bridge to Oxted 1L99 09 14 Oxted to London Bridge 5J03 09+56 London...

Track circuit failure at Gatwick, with no indication of detection on the points in the ASC. At the same time NR were in Key Route Strategy at Earlswood, so services cannot cross from Fast to Slow etc. KRS is where the rail temperature reaches a certain level and then at certain locations the...

And similar at Grove Park, especially in the peaks.

Suspended until later in the day.

Precisely! It seems that one can have a view on everyone else's job but you comment on their job and you're instantly jumped on! --- old post above --- --- new post below --- Neither, and he is more clever than you think or want to know.

This is one of the problems with industrial relations in this country. Instead of working together for the good of the company AND the workers, it's a 'them and us' all the time. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- I've known him since Connex days, and I've always found him...

We get criticised for putting information out too far in advance, and we get the same if we leave it until the last minute, on the off-chance it might be covered! What those who complain don't understand is you cannot make alterations and avoid blocking platforms etc at the last minute...

Probably referring to the Seaford branch, with the antiquated 313 units....

Based on fact at the time through managing the incident.... However, to be fair, there is still a learning curve, as there is for all new stock, and that for me goes back as far as the 455's and 442's (when new on the South West Division!). It's just that in todays society, every little...

Evening peak trains short formed tonight (according to the relevant websites!):- Southern 0, Thameslink 10!

Saturday service still runs....

Pedantic mode:- (With apologies) When running depot to depot with TL 319's, it could be a GBRF train!

Sat at St.Albans for 57 minutes on the Up Slow, hardly a minor problem... Took Siemens techs some time to get power to the units.

Services on the Fast lines in to Victoria are already at saturation point in the rush hour, before any incidents happen. Yesterday the signallers did a good job in diverting a couple of services via the Up Slow from Balham, to ease congestion. And the tailback was back to Streatham Common....

And the train that broke down this morning was a 700! Yes, the 319's are getting old. Repairing is getting harder and harder, due to spares. And yes, the information going out is nearly always correct, especially on Thameslink believe it or not....

Those routes that only ever saw an hourly service during the off-peak, or at weekends, when there was a cancellation usually had to wait an hour for the next train. There were a few exceptions but it wasn't the norm to provide a coach / bus.