London Banter - View Single Post - Planned engineering work between Acton Town and Hammersmith this weekend

[email protected] · January 7th 13, 12:07 AM posted to uk.transport.london

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(Recliner) wrote:

That was the claim which I find hard to credit given how long the
waits were for trains at Northfields and Acton Town. The signalling
didn't appear to allow reversal in platforms and the PIS was
non-existent unless you could hear the announcements.

Presumably there were two Picc shuttles and one District shuttle running
into a station that normally has mainly through trains? A few trains do
reverse there, using the sidings on each side of the station, but
certainly not three shuttles from the west, so I'm not surprised that the
capacity was very limited. What might have been cool would have been to
allow pax to stay on the train during the reversal, thus getting them to
the opposite platform without using the stairs or lifts, but I suppose
that's not allowed.

Were there three shuttles though? I'm not sure the Piccadilly wasn't
shuttling from Ealing Common (to Rayners Lane and ?beyond). Anyway, three
platforms were in use. I suppose the signalling can't cope with in-platform
reversals?

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Colin Rosenstiel