On the tube, why are there only a finite number of reasons for delays with
very little explanation (and often different reasons at different stations)?
Does anyone have a complete list? So far I've got:
* Passenger action
* Person under a train
* Signal Failure
* Failure of safety equipment
* Late finish of engineering works
* Earlier delays
* Staff shortage

"Chris" wrote in message
. ..
On the tube, why are there only a finite number of reasons for delays with
very little explanation (and often different reasons at different
stations)?
Does anyone have a complete list? So far I've got:
* Passenger action
* Person under a train
* Signal Failure
* Failure of safety equipment
* Late finish of engineering works
* Earlier delays
* Staff shortage



Today, Met line "Swan" on the line at Preston Road

purple pete wrote:

Today, Met line "Swan" on the line at Preston Road

"Injured swan", according to a notice at Baker Streeet. I wonder what
happened to it?

--
John Ray

Chris wrote:

On the tube, why are there only a finite number of reasons for delays with
very little explanation (and often different reasons at different stations)?
Does anyone have a complete list? So far I've got:
* Passenger action
* Person under a train
* Signal Failure
* Failure of safety equipment
* Late finish of engineering works
* Earlier delays
* Staff shortage

'Track Circuit Failure'

On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 22:06:48 -0000, "Chris"
wrote:

On the tube, why are there only a finite number of reasons for delays with
very little explanation (and often different reasons at different stations)?
Does anyone have a complete list? So far I've got:
* Passenger action
* Person under a train
* Signal Failure
* Failure of safety equipment
* Late finish of engineering works
* Earlier delays
* Staff shortage

"Person taken ill" on the Bak last night.

--
Nick Cooper

[Carefully remove the detonators from my e-mail address to reply!]

The London Underground at War:
http://www.cwgcuser.org.uk/personal/...ra/lu/tuaw.htm
625-Online - classic British television:
http://www.625.org.uk
'Things to Come' - An Incomplete Classic:
http://www.thingstocome.org.uk

"Chris" wrote in message
. ..
On the tube, why are there only a finite number of reasons for delays with
very little explanation (and often different reasons at different
stations)? Does anyone have a complete list? So far I've got:
* Passenger action
* Person under a train
* Signal Failure
* Failure of safety equipment
* Late finish of engineering works
* Earlier delays
* Staff shortage
Don't forget these ones...

* Adverse weather conditions
* Flooding on the line
* Security alert
* Fire brigade safety checks
* Defective train
* An "incident"
* Activation of passenger alarm
* Person taken ill

In message , at 22:06:48
on Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Chris remarked:
On the tube, why are there only a finite number of reasons for delays with
very little explanation (and often different reasons at different stations)?
Does anyone have a complete list? So far I've got:
* Passenger action
* Person under a train
* Signal Failure
* Failure of safety equipment
* Late finish of engineering works
* Earlier delays
* Staff shortage

Two I heard last week:

Passenger taken ill on platform
Fire brigade attendance

[Both the same "incident" - I wonder if the person spontaneously
combusted??]
--
Roland Perry

On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 00:35:54 GMT, Stuart
wrote:

Chris wrote:

On the tube, why are there only a finite number of reasons for delays with
very little explanation (and often different reasons at different stations)?
Does anyone have a complete list? So far I've got:
* Passenger action
* Person under a train
* Signal Failure
* Failure of safety equipment
* Late finish of engineering works
* Earlier delays
* Staff shortage

'Track Circuit Failure'

"awaiting driver"?
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Broken rail.

Generally it doesn't mean a broken rail, it has been used as another
explanation for a track circuit failure.

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 22:06:48 on
Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Chris remarked:
On the tube, why are there only a finite number of reasons for delays with
very little explanation (and often different reasons at different
stations)?
Does anyone have a complete list? So far I've got:
* Passenger action
* Person under a train
* Signal Failure
* Failure of safety equipment
* Late finish of engineering works
* Earlier delays
* Staff shortage

Two I heard last week:

Passenger taken ill on platform
Fire brigade attendance

[Both the same "incident" - I wonder if the person spontaneously
combusted??]
--
Roland Perry

I like the notice on the LED displays on SET when a 'fast' train goes
through:-

The approaching train is not for public use (nice to know when I'm on it)

Once on the SET WAP site (now discontinued) was The hh:mm from Abbey
Wood to Abbey Wood via Abbey Wood is delayed due to a failed train at
Faversham.

Often we used to get delays at places like Sittingbourne, and helpful
advice that London Transport were accepting tickets (40 miles away)

Chris