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Had to get the tube to work today for obvious reasons. Nice to see a
2.80 fare has gone up to 3.10. And for that extra 30p I get a 15
minute delay
on the central line due to some signal failure or other. Oh what a
surprise.

Pathetic bloody system.

The 'obvious reasons' presumably being that the Tube was working and the
roads were unusable? I wonder how the Tube staff got to work? You
should, at least, be pleased that they succeeded.

On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 11:04:30 -0000
"Recliner" wrote:
wrote in message

Had to get the tube to work today for obvious reasons. Nice to see a
2.80 fare has gone up to 3.10. And for that extra 30p I get a 15
minute delay
on the central line due to some signal failure or other. Oh what a
surprise.

Pathetic bloody system.

The 'obvious reasons' presumably being that the Tube was working and the
roads were unusable? I wonder how the Tube staff got to work? You
should, at least, be pleased that they succeeded.

Yes, no doubt getting up at 4am in a blizzard isn't much fun. But then thats
the nature of the career they chose. As a passenger all I'm concerned about
is why the service is still ****. And more to the point why does a signal
failure matter on an ATO line anyway? Either the ATO is working or it isn't.
If it isn't why can't they just drive the trains manually?

Or is signal failure a euphamism for total **** up?

B2003

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On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 11:04:30 -0000
"Recliner" wrote:
wrote in message

Had to get the tube to work today for obvious reasons. Nice to see a
2.80 fare has gone up to 3.10. And for that extra 30p I get a 15
minute delay
on the central line due to some signal failure or other. Oh what a
surprise.

Pathetic bloody system.

The 'obvious reasons' presumably being that the Tube was working and
the roads were unusable? I wonder how the Tube staff got to work?
You should, at least, be pleased that they succeeded.

Yes, no doubt getting up at 4am in a blizzard isn't much fun. But
then thats the nature of the career they chose. As a passenger all
I'm concerned about is why the service is still ****.

The point I was making was that you found the roads undrivable, so why
would it be any different for Tube staff. You're lucky they could even
get in to work, in order to get you to work.

Not transport related, but I was also pleased that my newspaper was
delivered as normal, and so was my post (in fact, earlier than usual).

Recliner wrote:

The point I was making was that you found the roads undrivable, so why
would it be any different for Tube staff. You're lucky they could even
get in to work, in order to get you to work.

Don't tube depots have sleeping quarters especially for weather like this?

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Recliner wrote:

The point I was making was that you found the roads undrivable, so why
would it be any different for Tube staff. You're lucky they could even
get in to work, in order to get you to work.

Don't tube depots have sleeping quarters especially for weather like this?

Now you're being silly; why would they?
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Steve Fitzgerald wrote:
In message , Basil Jet
writes
Recliner wrote:

The point I was making was that you found the roads undrivable, so
why would it be any different for Tube staff. You're lucky they
could even get in to work, in order to get you to work.

Don't tube depots have sleeping quarters especially for weather like
this?

Now you're being silly; why would they?

I thought I read that Neasden had some.

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"Basil Jet" wrote in message

Steve Fitzgerald wrote:
In message , Basil Jet
writes
Recliner wrote:

The point I was making was that you found the roads undrivable, so
why would it be any different for Tube staff. You're lucky they
could even get in to work, in order to get you to work.

Don't tube depots have sleeping quarters especially for weather like
this?

Now you're being silly; why would they?

I thought I read that Neasden had some.

In any case, you need more than drivers to run the Tube. Without station
staff, line controllers, signalling staff, etc, etc, the line/station
won't open.

On 6 Jan, 12:25, wrote:
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 11:04:30 -0000

"Recliner" wrote:
wrote in message

Had to get the tube to work today for obvious reasons. Nice to see a
2.80 fare has gone up to 3.10. And for that extra 30p I get a 15
minute delay
on the central line due to some signal failure or other. Oh what a
surprise.

Pathetic bloody system.

The 'obvious reasons' presumably being that the Tube was working and the
roads were unusable? *I wonder how the Tube staff got to work? *You
should, at least, be pleased that they succeeded.

Yes, no doubt getting up at 4am in a blizzard isn't much fun. But then thats
the nature of the career they chose. As a passenger all I'm concerned about
is why the service is still ****. And more to the point why does a signal
failure matter on an ATO line anyway? Either the ATO is working or it isn't.
If it isn't why can't they just drive the trains manually?

Or is signal failure a euphamism for total **** up?

I thought "signal failure" generally meant "failsafe operation of
signals" in practice. So if there's a failure of the track circuits
or whotnot, the signals won't allow anything to move.