Whats up with the Met line these days?
 

It seems that virtually every morning on the travel news theres a problem
on it. Today it was overrunning engineering works, yesterday there was no
surface to aldgate and loads of issues last week too. Is this all down to the
S stock introduction or is the line just slowly falling to bits?

B2003

Whats up with the Met line these days?
 

Whats up with the Met line these days?
 

Whats up with the Met line these days?
 

"Jack Taylor" gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying:

There's no capacity for turning trains back

Are you kidding me? The number of times I've been on trains heading in,
which are pulled at Harrow (and a few times at Wembley Park, Finchley
Road...)

Whats up with the Met line these days?
 

On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:55:47 -0000
"Jack Taylor" wrote:
smallest amount of rain and the signalling collapses. There's no capacity
for turning trains back, so they try and shovel them all down into the City
where, with only Moorgate and Aldgate to turn back, any westbound delays

Closing the bay platform at liverpool street probably didn't help there.
I suppose if LU take over the old Thameslink trackbed to moorgate then
there'll be a lot more capacity though with all the cost cutting at the
moment I can't see it happening any time soon and by the time they do get
around to it no doubt the track will have decayed to a point where they
have to spend even more money to replace it all - unless someone is doing
residual maintenance on it.

B2003

Whats up with the Met line these days?
 

On Feb 11, 5:01*am, wrote:
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:55:47 -0000
I suppose if LU take over the old Thameslink trackbed to moorgate then
there'll be a lot more capacity though with all the cost cutting at the
moment I can't see it happening any time soon and by the time they do get
around to it no doubt the track will have decayed to a point where they
have to spend even more money to replace it all - unless someone is doing
residual maintenance on it.

I thought they were lifting the track, at least through Barbican.
They'd reached the tunnel mouth at the end of the platform when I was
last there at the start of January.
--
Roy

Whats up with the Met line these days?
 

On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 07:00:45 -0800 (PST)
Roy Stilling wrote:
I thought they were lifting the track, at least through Barbican.
They'd reached the tunnel mouth at the end of the platform when I was
last there at the start of January.

AFAIK they lifted it near farringdon to build that works ramp but last
time I was at Barbican - which admittedly was about 6 months back - it was
all still in situ. Perhaps thats changed, though the scrap value of the
track surely can't be worth the hassle of lifting it now theres no rail
connection to that branch.

B2003

Whats up with the Met line these days?
 

Whats up with the Met line these days?
 

Adrian wrote:
"Jack Taylor" gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying:

There's no capacity for turning trains back

Are you kidding me? The number of times I've been on trains heading
in, which are pulled at Harrow (and a few times at Wembley Park,
Finchley Road...)

I was referring to the 'in town' section, specifically Baker Street to
Aldgate.

Whats up with the Met line these days?
 

On 12/02/2011 02:02, Jack Taylor wrote:
Adrian wrote:
"Jack gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying:

There's no capacity for turning trains back

Are you kidding me? The number of times I've been on trains heading
in, which are pulled at Harrow (and a few times at Wembley Park,
Finchley Road...)

I was referring to the 'in town' section, specifically Baker Street to
Aldgate.


What about the points just east of KXSP?

Whats up with the Met line these days?
 

Whats up with the Met line these days?
 

On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 02:01:05 -0000
"Jack Taylor" wrote:
AFAIK they lifted it near farringdon to build that works ramp but last
time I was at Barbican - which admittedly was about 6 months back -
it was all still in situ. Perhaps thats changed, though the scrap
value of the track surely can't be worth the hassle of lifting it now
theres no rail connection to that branch.

It's still there and the westbound line has now had all manner of detritus
dumped on it, including the monitors that used to be on the platforms.

Sounds like vandals have got in. How much of a loser do you have to be to
entertain yourself by climbing onto a railway and smashing stuff up?

Still, why NR left perfectly working monitors behind is anyones guess I
suppose.

B2003

Whats up with the Met line these days?
 

Whats up with the Met line these days?
 

On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 14:03:29 -0000
"Jack Taylor" wrote:
Sounds like vandals have got in. How much of a loser do you have to
be to entertain yourself by climbing onto a railway and smashing
stuff up?

No, it's clearly been stripped by contractors and dumped in the four foot to
await collection and disposal. Some of the stuff is bagged up in cubic metre
bags, it's just the bigger stuff like the CRT monitors, signalling
equipment, pieces of catenary and some sections of rail (cut into shorter
lengths) that have been left loose.

Fair enough. Seems a pity they decided not to re-use the equipment or at
least keep it in a state whereby it could be stored for possibly future use.

B2003

Whats up with the Met line these days?
 

On Feb 14, 8:38*pm, wrote:
Sounds like vandals have got in. How much of a loser do you have to
be to entertain yourself by climbing onto a railway and smashing
stuff up?

No, it's clearly been stripped by contractors and dumped in the four foot to
await collection and disposal. Some of the stuff is bagged up in cubic metre
bags, it's just the bigger stuff like the CRT monitors, signalling
equipment, pieces of catenary and some sections of rail (cut into shorter
lengths) that have been left loose.

Fair enough. Seems a pity they decided not to re-use the equipment or at
least keep it in a state whereby it could be stored for possibly future use.

I'm not sure there's much you can do with a CRT monitor[*] or a
random assortment of early-20th-century signalling equipment, though.
I assume the metal stuff will be sold for scrap (after all, if it's
worth scrotes' while to nick it, then it's got to be worth NR's while
to sell it).
[*] at least, from the number of presumably-functional CRT monitors
and TVs I see left out on the street. Fairly sure the residual value
of any CRT-based display unit is now zero...

--
John Band
john at johnband dot org
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