Richard J. wrote:
Brimstone wrote:
Boltar wrote:
The piccadilly trains seem to run very slowly into the northbound
platform at Kings X and its been like that for years. Anyone know
the reason?


There's a twenty mile an hour speed restriction over two set of
pointwork on the approach. The first set is the crossover to the
west/south bound and the second is a connection to the Northern
Line. The latter comes out on the City branch just south of Euston.

Has the speed limit been increased? It used to be 10 mph there.

It may be that my reference is out of date and it has been further reduced.

Perhaps a current T/Op will be along soon to confirm the exact figure.
However, we are in agreement that the reason for the slow entry is a severe
speed restriction on the approach.

Brimstone wrote:
It may be that my reference is out of date and it has been further
reduced.

Perhaps a current T/Op will be along soon to confirm the exact
figure.
However, we are in agreement that the reason for the slow entry is a
severe
speed restriction on the approach.

Why the restriction in the first place though? Is it knackered track or
something? I saw them replacing track there last year , surely they'd
have
done this at the same time? If its not then whats so special about
these
sets of points?

B2003