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Post by Hutch on Nov 12, 2018 9:28:32 GMT
According to a colleague who was on the train, a Circle Line service to Hammersmith terminated in Baker Street platform 2 this morning peak. Everyone tipped out without further explanation.
That must have taken some effort to sort out at that time of day. Did they back it out, or reverse it north of the station?
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Post by goldenarrow on Nov 12, 2018 10:38:37 GMT
There were severe delays caused by a signal failure at High Street Ken plus further delays caused a passenger taken ill at Monument.
If controllers could foresee a log jam of Circle/H&C services, they may have chosen to bail services early as your colleague described at Baker Street (MET) given that gaps in City services heading out can be as much as 5-6mins making backing from platform 2 via Baker St Junction and 32 points tight but still plausible.
Since 2010, the track layout immediately north of Baker Street can’t facilitate a NB to SB (City) move since the scissors crossover has been replaced with a diamond crossing between the NB and platform 4. Even pre 2010, I don’t think the area was signalled up to do such a move.
Next reversal point heading north would be 6 points at Swiss Cottage (Disused) which would take up more time than reversing in situ. Still if they did what was described above, hats off to controllers as it appears that they got away with the move not affecting MET services.
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Post by aslefshrugged on Nov 12, 2018 23:42:47 GMT
I watched Trackernet replayer from 05:00 to 09:00, nothing other than Metropolitan Line "400" trains arriving on Plat. 2. while all the Circle and H&C "170s" and "200s" went to Plat.6.
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Post by Hutch on Nov 13, 2018 8:12:15 GMT
Most strange. Please could you check from 0900 to 0930 - he is quite a late arriving person coming in from darkest Essex. It was definitely a Circle Line service he picked up at Liverpool Street. Commuters being creatures of great habit, they all ended up looking very confused at Baker Street - he said - having ended up at a platform most had never seen before. Might as well have been Platform 9 3/4 !
Thought, before GoldenArrow's post, that someone had taken 'a wrong un'.
Just a thought, would the controller have had to renumber the Circle Line service before the system would send it up the Met to reverse in p2?
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Post by steeevooo on Nov 13, 2018 11:00:20 GMT
This may or may not be the same train, but arriving at Aldgate yesterday (c. 0820) I found, as usual, a Met train in P3 whilst I waited on P4 for the Circle Line to Hammersmith. About a minute before the Met train departed, the announcement "The destination of this train has changed, this is now a Circle Line train to Hammersmith" was played and the displays reflected this. I waited on the platform regardless since I was skeptical, and as it pulled away I can confirm it was definitely an S8 with Circle Line descriptors. I am very much assuming that this train, being an S8, didn't actually transpire to be a Circle Line train for its duration!
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Post by goldenarrow on Nov 13, 2018 11:14:32 GMT
I’ve just realised I’ve got an S7 at Baker St MET recently on video folks!
Any ideas how to upload it?
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Post by superteacher on Nov 13, 2018 11:33:17 GMT
I’ve just realised I’ve got an S7 at Baker St MET recently on video folks! Any ideas how to upload it? It needs to be on a 3rd party host site such as YouTube.
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Post by goldenarrow on Nov 13, 2018 11:48:07 GMT
superteacher , many thanks. Now that I’ve calmed down a bit, this video was shot by myself on 23rd October at 14:51 PM, annoyingly my phone was so grimy from spending over four hours on the Bakerloo that it couldn’t focus on the train number or unit number either. Although I have posted the part of the video that excludes my mini rant at how dirty my phone is, the full video does show seven cars.
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Post by MoreToJack on Nov 13, 2018 13:14:46 GMT
Right. Let's get some misconceptions out of the way, and answer some questions.
1. S7s are not "rare" in either Met platform. There are two booked daily movements to and from Neasden for stabling purposes, one at the start of the day and one at the end of the day.
2. Even during the day, S7s are not "rare" in either Met platform. Although not in service, there are scheduled stock movement paths (in the 7xx series) to transfer stock around the various depots. I expect that this is what is see in the video above.
3. It is not unheard of for S7s to run to platform 2 in service, before terminating and returning to the City. Unless crewed by a Met driver, or with pilot, they cannot run north with C&H crews. This can be done either to recover late running (very unusual though) or a a result of a failure or wrong signal lowered. Remember, controllers and signallers are looking at the bigger picture.
4. There is no need to renumber a train if it is running onto other line, unless that number will clash with one already running. There is no overlap between any numbers on the SSR and Piccadilly (and also Jubilee).
5. The S stock TCMS is S L O W. It is very easy for the wrong destination code to be entered, which is what will have happened on the above S8. There are codes for C&H and Met destinations with common numbers - see previously when C&H trains have had Ruislip up.
As for the initial point, again no C&H trains ran into P2 between 0900 and 0930. Indeed, checking other information available to me, no C&H trains were diverted into platform 2 at all yesterday.
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Post by norbitonflyer on Nov 13, 2018 14:19:57 GMT
Is it possible the train was misdescribed on leaving Aldgate, but corrected before it got to Baker Street? As I understand it, the train numbers are three-digit octal numbers, each digit a being triplet of bits (binary digits). If so, transposing the first two bits would turn a Met (4xx, or 100 xxx xxx into a Circle (2xx, or 010 xxx xxx). If the train was set up as a 2xx, it would display that error on its onboard systems and pass that information to the "Next Train" indicators on the platforms. Not sure whether the signalling system would also treat it as a Circle in such cases, but if so, as long as the driver spotted the problem before being sent the wrong way at Baker Street it could be fixed. Thus when it arrived at Baker Street it would be shown as a 4xx. Whether Trackernet would show a 2xx mysteriously transmogrifying into a 4xx en route I wouldn't know! (Or would Trackernet show the correct number despite what the train was reporting itself to be?)
And the reason everyone got out at Baker Street (even though it was a Met service going to ?Amersham/Chesham/wherever) would be because anyone waiting for a Met between Aldgate and Gt Portland Street would have let it go as it appeared to be a circle.
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Post by aslefshrugged on Nov 13, 2018 15:02:15 GMT
On the Central Line the boards on the platform and Trackernet get their information from the signal system not from the destination displayed by the train, I assume its the same on others lines. Its not unknown for trains to go westbound with Epping or Hainault via Newbury Park on the front by mistake but the platform boards and Trackernet will be showing the correct destination.
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Post by MoreToJack on Nov 13, 2018 16:28:23 GMT
Correct, TrackerNet destinations are derived from the 'Train Description', or TD, system, also explaining why destinations aren't available/accurate for areas like the Hammersmith branch.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2018 17:09:24 GMT
Doesn’t Wembley Park sidings get all S7’s didn’t think the S8’s fitted too well?
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Post by Dstock7080 on Nov 13, 2018 17:28:22 GMT
Doesn’t Wembley Park sidings get all S7’s didn’t think the S8’s fitted too well? Wembley Park sidings were decommissioned in 2016.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2018 19:07:49 GMT
I’m sure I have seen S stocks in there since 2016
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Post by aslefshrugged on Nov 13, 2018 19:42:57 GMT
Most strange. Please could you check from 0900 to 0930 - he is quite a late arriving person coming in from darkest Essex. It was definitely a Circle Line service he picked up at Liverpool Street. Commuters being creatures of great habit, they all ended up looking very confused at Baker Street - he said - having ended up at a platform most had never seen before. Might as well have been Platform 9 3/4 !
Thought, before GoldenArrow's post, that someone had taken 'a wrong un'.
Just a thought, would the controller have had to renumber the Circle Line service before the system would send it up the Met to reverse in p2? I've checked Trackernet Replayer from 09:00 to 09:45 but still can't see a train with a 200 or 170 number going to platform 2. Ask your mate roughly when he got on, I'll follow the trains to see if maybe one was renumbered.
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Post by Hutch on Nov 15, 2018 13:16:18 GMT
Thanks Aslefshrugged. He boarded the train at Liverpool Street about 08h15 to 08h20.
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