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Post by notatraindriver on Dec 26, 2011 21:30:12 GMT
Is there a reason why the tube seems more affected from the strike than usual strikes? Is it due to there being less drivers on rotas, but then surely if only one union is on strike, it should be usual strike action? It seems to be well thought out on which services should run and shouldn't. Anyone got any suggestions on how best to use the trains avaiable? It seems like they look to serve the most important part of the lines where there isn't an alternative/ near to the depo? What do you mean by more affected in this case? |
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Post by chrisvandenkieboom on Dec 26, 2011 21:33:03 GMT
Is there currently maintenance going on while areas don't have trains running anyway? Seems like maintenance might be the only useful thing that can be done in the closed areas.
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Post by tubeoperator92 on Dec 26, 2011 21:37:25 GMT
I should think that maintenance staff would still be on hand doing patrolling... you don't want to come across any issues 90 minutes before start up when things get back to 'normal' tomorrow...
No doubt Network Rail might have found a few issues already, some elements of society having taken advantage of a two day stoppage... in some places.
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Post by notatraindriver on Dec 26, 2011 21:39:45 GMT
Maybe during the next strike instead of getting extra buses onto the already congested roads, they could drive tube trains instead? After all driving a bus is harder than driving a train because there is no steering.
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Post by chrisvandenkieboom on Dec 26, 2011 21:45:11 GMT
I doubt it. Don't really know a proper reason, but it just doesn't seem right.
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Post by tubeoperator92 on Dec 26, 2011 21:45:44 GMT
Well at least the train won't run out of fuel like one bus did...
*hides*
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Post by Guest on Dec 26, 2011 23:38:45 GMT
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Post by norbitonflyer on Dec 27, 2011 9:33:40 GMT
Whether it was DERV or electrons that the thing ran out of, it shouldn't ahve been allowed to do so - the hard shpulder is not a good place to be. Why did the driver not stop at a service area to refuel/recharge (as the case may be) when he was getting low. Or is the instrumentation on the bus lacking something? (In which case it needs fixing before we get these behemoths in service, (or out of service, and in the way, after more unheralded lacks of fuel/charge) |
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Post by SE13 on Dec 27, 2011 12:34:15 GMT
Maybe during the next strike instead of getting extra buses onto the already congested roads, they could drive tube trains instead? After all driving a bus is harder than driving a train because there is no steering. I wish I could say that it were true, however, it's more than likely the other way round, your average train driver would at least know where to start with a bus! |
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