The state of the Piccadilly has gone from poor to horrid, particularly the Uxbridge - Acton Town branch.
Whenever delays start coming up, that branch is first to get on the chopping block and have the services severely reduced or just not show up at all. Last week when there were minor delays due to a fault somewhere on the east side, no trains were going to Uxbridge or Rayners Lane from King’s Cross. When they were, it was well over 20 minutes since the last one presumably. It felt more like a suspension of that branch rather than minor delays on the entire line.
Fire alerts have been common place on the Piccadilly recently too, this week there being an Acton Town fire alert which made them throw their hands up in the air and not have any trains come in or come out from King’s Cross StP, especially any towards Uxbridge or Rayners again. I understand fire alerts can cause bad delays, but I don’t believe there to have been an actual fire at Acton Town which would’ve made no trains pass through the station. Usually they just pass through at a slow speed. If I’m wrong though, please do enlighten me because I am genuinely curious as to why that fire alert basically suspended the service.
Most of the time now whenever I do get an Uxbridge service, they change it either last minute on the stretch from Hammersmith to Acton or soon after leaving King’s Cross to a Heathrow service. I genuinely have no theories as to why they do this and it completely baffles me - surely it’s not to regulate the service because there is a regular service from Heathrow, far more regular than Uxbridge!
Services from the west end from the Uxbridge branch don’t even go to Cockfosters anymore, they just now go to Arnos Grove and it’s very annoying. If I wanted to go Cockfosters then I’d have to change at Acton Town which is a pain in the arse because I’d have to join a busy service from Heathrow. This week, though, the first train going into central London which should be the 5:27 from Sudbury Hill now only goes to Acton Town which poses the same issue of having to change at Acton Town and it delays my journey even more. No communication was put out to say that this change could be due to the strikes, only that regular service will resume on Friday and Wednesday. I do wish they wouldn’t prioritise the Heathrow services so much like they’re the golden child because I do also want to get home on my end of the branch and hate having to fight with this line pretty much every day.
If anybody’s got any knowledge as to why these things have started to happen more often on the Pic, then I’d greatly appreciate it.
Whenever delays start coming up, that branch is first to get on the chopping block and have the services severely reduced or just not show up at all. Last week when there were minor delays due to a fault somewhere on the east side, no trains were going to Uxbridge or Rayners Lane from King’s Cross. When they were, it was well over 20 minutes since the last one presumably. It felt more like a suspension of that branch rather than minor delays on the entire line.
Fire alerts have been common place on the Piccadilly recently too, this week there being an Acton Town fire alert which made them throw their hands up in the air and not have any trains come in or come out from King’s Cross StP, especially any towards Uxbridge or Rayners again. I understand fire alerts can cause bad delays, but I don’t believe there to have been an actual fire at Acton Town which would’ve made no trains pass through the station. Usually they just pass through at a slow speed. If I’m wrong though, please do enlighten me because I am genuinely curious as to why that fire alert basically suspended the service.
Most of the time now whenever I do get an Uxbridge service, they change it either last minute on the stretch from Hammersmith to Acton or soon after leaving King’s Cross to a Heathrow service. I genuinely have no theories as to why they do this and it completely baffles me - surely it’s not to regulate the service because there is a regular service from Heathrow, far more regular than Uxbridge!
Services from the west end from the Uxbridge branch don’t even go to Cockfosters anymore, they just now go to Arnos Grove and it’s very annoying. If I wanted to go Cockfosters then I’d have to change at Acton Town which is a pain in the arse because I’d have to join a busy service from Heathrow. This week, though, the first train going into central London which should be the 5:27 from Sudbury Hill now only goes to Acton Town which poses the same issue of having to change at Acton Town and it delays my journey even more. No communication was put out to say that this change could be due to the strikes, only that regular service will resume on Friday and Wednesday. I do wish they wouldn’t prioritise the Heathrow services so much like they’re the golden child because I do also want to get home on my end of the branch and hate having to fight with this line pretty much every day.
If anybody’s got any knowledge as to why these things have started to happen more often on the Pic, then I’d greatly appreciate it.
