Ickenham Platform Extension

[matthewthomas]

Hi Guys.

I remember when I was young (about 10yrs ago) that when you were travelling EB on the Met/Pic when you got to Ickenham (EB) the rear 2 sets of double doors didn't open as the platform was to short?

Am I imagining this or was the platform extended, if it was extended why did it take LUL so long to extend.

[piccadillypilot]

When I was a guard on the Picc (in the late seventies) working both 1959 and 1973 stocks we didn't cut out doors at any of the stations on a regular basis.

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matthewthomas said:

Hi Guys.

I remember when I was young (about 10yrs ago) that when you were travelling EB on the Met/Pic when you got to Ickenham (EB) the rear 2 sets of double doors didn't open as the platform was to short?

Am I imagining this or was the platform extended, if it was extended why did it take LUL so long to extend.

No, you are not imagining this! Both the platforms have been extended at the 'Hillingdon' ends.

With crew-operation there was no problem as, without the need for OPO mirrors/monitors, trains could be fully berthed within the available platform length. It was several years after one-person-operation started before LUL management realised that trains were stopping with their rear-most doors not fully in the platform at Ickenham.

Drivers were then instructed to cut-out the rear doors until the platform extensions were completed.

[Harsig]

peteuxb said:

matthewthomas said:

Hi Guys.

I remember when I was young (about 10yrs ago) that when you were travelling EB on the Met/Pic when you got to Ickenham (EB) the rear 2 sets of double doors didn't open as the platform was to short?

Am I imagining this or was the platform extended, if it was extended why did it take LUL so long to extend.

No, you are not imagining this! Both the platforms have been extended at the 'Hillingdon' ends.

With crew-operation there was no problem as, without the need for OPO mirrors/monitors, trains could be fully berthed within the available platform length. It was several years after one-person-operation started before LUL management realised that trains were stopping with their rear-most doors not fully in the platform at Ickenham.

Drivers were then instructed to cut-out the rear doors until the platform extensions were completed.

Actually my understanding is a little different. Originally A stock trains fitted quite happily in the platforms at Ickenham at least as far as the passengers were concerned. This remained the case when OPO was first installed. However the stopping mark at the time was such that the driver's cab stopped alongside the platfomr ramp. At some later point in time someone decreed that this was unsafe and that drivers should be able to step from their cabs onto a level platform surface. Thus the stopping marks were repositioned to allow them to do this and lo and behold the rear of the train no longer fitted in the platform.

[q8]

Oh the mentality of management and accountants defies belief. So they go to greater expense extending the entire width of the platform at the rear end when all that was required was a short little platform on stilts like the ones over cable runs that could have served and held the monitors/mirrors as well. At a lot less money too.

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