A few rants about the Jubilee Line... 
Every time, without fail, you never, ever, manage to get a clear journey in to Stratford on the Jubilee Line. The journey is booked to take 3 mins but always involves stopping at Stratford Staff Halt and again adjacent to Stratford Market Depot to either await a platform at Stratford station or to let an empty train in to the depot, a more realistic journey time is between 6-8 mins.
The Jubilee line runs direct between West Ham and Stratford, the new DLR branch to Stratford International has two intermediate stations at Abbey Rd and Stratford HS. Last week I experienced that it is quicker to take the slower DLR as opposed to the direct Jubilee Line. Both my DLR train and a Jubilee line train departed West Ham almost instantly the same moment, my DLR train had to call at both said stations but because of the signal-signal crawling pace of the Jubilee line train we still managed to beat it to Stratford. Tortoise and the Hare... :roll:
Ever since the installation of the TBTC automatic signaling the Jubilee line has became awful, the operation of the trains is so sporadic - either they are always early and crawl at approx. 20mph between stations and then sit at stations to regulate the timetable or when late go flat out like the clappers. The handling of the train is the constant on-off-on-off fanning technique for both power and braking which makes journeys very uncomfortable.
The Jubilee line worked perfectly prior to TBTC but then again it was always intended to be automated from the day one... :roll:
I avoid the Jubilee line like the plauge, I'd rather walk.
Every time, without fail, you never, ever, manage to get a clear journey in to Stratford on the Jubilee Line. The journey is booked to take 3 mins but always involves stopping at Stratford Staff Halt and again adjacent to Stratford Market Depot to either await a platform at Stratford station or to let an empty train in to the depot, a more realistic journey time is between 6-8 mins.
The Jubilee line runs direct between West Ham and Stratford, the new DLR branch to Stratford International has two intermediate stations at Abbey Rd and Stratford HS. Last week I experienced that it is quicker to take the slower DLR as opposed to the direct Jubilee Line. Both my DLR train and a Jubilee line train departed West Ham almost instantly the same moment, my DLR train had to call at both said stations but because of the signal-signal crawling pace of the Jubilee line train we still managed to beat it to Stratford. Tortoise and the Hare... :roll:
Ever since the installation of the TBTC automatic signaling the Jubilee line has became awful, the operation of the trains is so sporadic - either they are always early and crawl at approx. 20mph between stations and then sit at stations to regulate the timetable or when late go flat out like the clappers. The handling of the train is the constant on-off-on-off fanning technique for both power and braking which makes journeys very uncomfortable.
The Jubilee line worked perfectly prior to TBTC but then again it was always intended to be automated from the day one... :roll:
I avoid the Jubilee line like the plauge, I'd rather walk.
