On 19 Jan, 17:48, Edward Cowling London UK
wrote:
In message 01c85aae$d37aaa20$LocalHost@default, Michael R N Dolbear
writes



Edward Cowling London UK wrote

While we're taking about the Victoria Line can someone fix the
computer
to make the breaking less last minute and less fierce. It's the only
line that seems to routinely try to throw everyone on the floor !

Huh ?

Whereabouts is this ?

I have never noticed anything out of the way (compared with Pic or
Northern line) but I usually travel Vauxhall to Highbury & Islington
outwards and Kings+ to Oxford Circus inwards.

Hi fellow brother of the damned, I do the same awful route :-) I've
lost track of the times I've started to move towards the doors, only to
have the train stop dead and chuck me about. I don't get this on the
Piccadilly line.

Plus the trains don't wait at the platform like the human driven trains
do if there is a bad morning with the trains up ahead. They just stop in
the bloody tunnel.

All in all give me a human being at the wheel any day.



But I doubt human beings could deliver a line with the same frequency
of trains, which is one of the major attractions of the Victoria line.
Plus of course if all the trains stayed in the platforms if the line
ahead was congested, then the whole line would slow to a crawl. The
train needs to vacate the platform to allow the one behind it in, and
by so doing the service can recover quicker than it would otherwise.
Most of the time they don;t stop in the tunnel for that long.

I'm a big fan of the Victoria line, it is a backbone of the network
and shifts a huge number of people around town quickly. Getting from
Highbury & Islington to Vauxhall in about 15 minutes isn't that far
short of black magic in my book!