On Sun, 14 May 2006 11:46:05 +0100, Edward Cowling London UK
wrote:

Just about every night last week the Hammersmith & City line was either
delayed or not running at all. Couple that with problems on the Circle
Line
and I ended up using the only reliable way across town Friday evening.

My Feet :-)

I keep hearing about speed restrictions and buckled tracks. Is this
genuine
or another way for the LU management to have a pop at the private
enterprise scheme put in place by Ken ? Whatever as always the
public seem to get caught in the middle of these things.

As has been posted several times this is a failure by Metronet to plan a
preventative activity to stress the rails to allow for warmer weather. I
hardly think this is "people having a pop" for the sake of it. It is a
complete and utter failure and incompetence on the part of Metronet.

Various parts of the District, Picc (where maintained by MRSSL) and Met
Lines are all directly affected. All the other sub surface lines like
the H&C suffer the knock on from the loss of capacity from having to run
at slow speed. The trains must run at slow speed or else the rails may
buckle risking a derailment.

The District Line has had two consecutive weekends of closures in East
London to give Metronet the chance to catch up on work they should have
done months ago. Expect more closures elsewhere to deal with the
remaining problems.
--
Paul C


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