On 12/05/2014 23:43, Paul Corfield wrote:
On Mon, 12 May 2014 21:32:37 +0100, "Richard J."
wrote:

Basil Jet wrote on 12 May 2014 17:20:41 ...

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/trans...l?icn=ticker-2

Dear me, District Dave's forum has banned all discussion about this
thankfully mild collision, and all u.t.l can do is debate the wording of
the press release/report.

The scrape occurred between East Putney and Southfields, on a section of
the District Line that used to be part of Southern Region BR. I
understand that LU now manage the stations, but that the signalling is
still operated by Network Rail. The key question, since it is alleged
that the incident was caused by movement of the track, is who now
maintains the track. LU (ex-Metronet) or Network Rail? And if the
latter, is it as a subcontractor to LU or as owner of the track?

I believe the track is maintained by LU and I think ownership moved to
LU a number of years ago. Clearly SWT have retained their historic
running rights. The southern end of the line has been notorious for
years with poor drainage, wet beds, ponding etc. It also used to flood
causing signal failures whenever there was reasonably heavy rain. From
memory LU spent a lot of money to deal with the worst sections of
track so rain didn't kill the service. I would expect the line to have
had a fair amount of attention in recent years to get the route
prepared for S Stock deployment.

What are those green objects that are at track level by the end of every
station where S Stock runs, BTW?