"Paul Weaver" typed


I belive the problemt to be that a flaw exists, whereby trains can drive
off
with the PED's still open (LUL rules say that if PEDs

What's a PED?

Platform Edge Door, I presume from the context.

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"K" wrote in message
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On Monday 1 station was non-stopping in one direction on the
Jubilee line because the PEDs were defective; Tuesday there were
2 stations and now today there was a third. What is going on?

Everything's going wrong this week - Walthamstow Central was
closed yesterday, There was a train stuck at Oxford Circus on the
Victoria this morning, causing massive delays, and the influx of
refugees from the Northern Line meant that getting into town from
the North East has been dreadful. As I was going to the central I
changed at Finsbury Park, but the Picadilly was as slow as the
Victoria.

I was trying to catch the Central line from Liverpool Street this
morning. I had to let three trains go past before boarding because
there was absolutely no room for more passengers. Is this normal or is
it related to all the recent problems? I knew the Central line was bad
but surely not that bad!

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"Paul Weaver" wrote in message
What's a PED?


Platform Edge Door.

Kat in Downtown Toronto

"K" wrote in message
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On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:09:20 +0100, "Darren Wiltshire"
wrote:


As you can imagine, these can cause a few helth problems for passengers,
and
so it is easier to pass these stations while they try to fix this.


But 3 in one week? That sounds too much of a coincidence

So were all the power cuts: East Coast USA, London, Northern Italy... "It's
all a great big conspiracy"!

"Martin Underwood" typed



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On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:09:20 +0100, "Darren Wiltshire"
wrote:


As you can imagine, these can cause a few helth problems for passengers,
and
so it is easier to pass these stations while they try to fix this.


But 3 in one week? That sounds too much of a coincidence

So were all the power cuts: East Coast USA, London, Northern Italy... "It's
all a great big conspiracy"!


No, you obviously didn't absorb 'File on Four' on Radio 4 last night...

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Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.

"K" wrote in message
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On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:09:20 +0100, "Darren Wiltshire"
wrote:


As you can imagine, these can cause a few helth problems for passengers,
and
so it is easier to pass these stations while they try to fix this.


But 3 in one week? That sounds too much of a coincidence

No, not a coincidence, just part of an on-going problem that is currently
being looked into/fixed

"Martin Underwood" wrote in message
s.com...

"K" wrote in message
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On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:09:20 +0100, "Darren Wiltshire"
wrote:


As you can imagine, these can cause a few helth problems for
passengers,
and
so it is easier to pass these stations while they try to fix this.


But 3 in one week? That sounds too much of a coincidence

So were all the power cuts: East Coast USA, London, Northern Italy...
"It's
all a great big conspiracy"!


Apparently one in which, Canada, who suffered the worst of the North
American power-cuts AND for longer, isn't included....

Kat in Downtown Toronto

"Janice" wrote in message ...
"Paul Weaver" wrote in message
What's a PED?


Platform Edge Door.

Indeed. An expensive and utterly pointless feature in the jubilee line
extension that has started causing problems after only 3 years. Imagine
how (un)reliable these things will be in a decade and how much money will
have to be sunk into them to keep them working. If future management at LUL
have any sense they'll rip them out at the first opportunity.

B2003

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"Janice" wrote in message
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"Paul Weaver" wrote in message
What's a PED?


Platform Edge Door.

Indeed. An expensive and utterly pointless feature

I'm sure you love it when your train is delayed by a person throwing
themselves under it, or even slipping and falling under it by accident.
I won't talk about distress caused to the people who have to deal with
it afterwards because I can't imagine you caring about it beyond the
effect it has on you.

in the jubilee
line extension that has started causing problems after only 3
years. Imagine how (un)reliable these things will be in a decade
and how much money will have to be sunk into them to keep them
working.

Two sets of doors being broken for a day or two is hardly the end of
the world. I suppose that next time your car gets a flat tyre you'll
take it to the scrap heap.

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Hacker is to computer as boy racer is to Ford Escort.

Excuse me for hijacking this thread, but it is the perfect moment to ask a
thing I always wanted to know:

What are the PED built for?
Obviously, they are a safety increase for the passengers on a crowded
platform - but in a movie of a "jubilee line drivers view" I saw, the
speaker said something about the ventilation systems of the trains. He
emphasized that the ventilation was the primary reason for building them,
and safety came just along with that.

So I wonder if someone can give some insights what the doors really do for
the line - or if this DVDs commentary is just b...

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- flying to London next week for 3 days holiday in the city
- looking forward (I really do) to use the tube!