Thread: Planned engineering work between Acton Town and Hammersmith this weekend
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Old January 7th 13, 12:55 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Planned engineering work between Acton Town and Hammersmith this weekend
On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 12:36:33 +0000 (UTC), d
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On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 12:14:15 +0000
Steve Fitzgerald ] wrote:
Oh one point I missed. The Piccadilly would not reverse east to west at
ECM either as that would require running via the depot reception roads
and the Picc drivers don't have that route knowledge and would require a
pilot. It was done a few years ago when work at Acton stopped them
getting into the platforms.

I can understand route knowledge being required for high speed trains or
eurostars or any system where stopping takes an age - by why does a tube
driver trundling along at 20mph need it? Surely he'll see any signals and
sharp bends long before he'll have to brake for them.

Plus, with so few trains running, surely there would be spare District
and Picc drivers available to act as pilots?
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