Further service enhancements

[Deleted]

There's a sticker on the timetable poster at King George V (and presumably all over the network) saying that a new improved timetable will be introduced later this month. Any ideas what enhancements will be introduced?

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Aug 9, 2015 15:03:07 GMT @lthrtim said:

There's a sticker on the timetable poster at King George V (and presumably all over the network) saying that a new improved timetable will be introduced later this month. Any ideas what enhancements will be introduced?

What ever enhancement will no doubt as usual be at the expense of us on the Beckton line

[alholmes]

Don't know all the details but I've just looked at Journey Planner from my local station, Bow Church.

Monday-Friday peak increased from 10 trains per hour to 15 tph (every 4 mins)
Monday-Friday midday off-peak increased from 10 tph to 12 tph (every 5 mins)
Monday- Friday evening increased from 6 tph to 8 tph (every 7-8 mins)

I've never known a 4-minute frequency on the Stratford route - be interesting to see how reliable it is with the single track stretches.

Also on the Stratford route through Bow-Church, Saturday / Sunday is currently 6 tph (every 10 mins). Service frequency will be increased at busy times below, unchanged early morning / evening.
Saturday increased to 12 tph 09:00-21:00
Sunday increased to 12 tph 10:00-19:00

Looks as though the Beckton-West Ham service is discontinued, to be replaced by a Beckton-Canning Town service at certain times to supplement the Beckton-Tower Gateway service. So the losers are Star Lane and Abbey Road, and still only a 10 minute frequency to Stratford International.

[davidp]

Aug 12, 2015 19:46:44 GMT alholmes said:

Don't know all the details but I've just looked at Journey Planner from my local station, Bow Church.

Monday-Friday peak increased from 10 trains per hour to 15 tph (every 4 mins)
Monday-Friday midday off-peak increased from 10 tph to 12 tph (every 5 mins)
Monday- Friday evening increased from 6 tph to 8 tph (every 7-8 mins)

I've never known a 4-minute frequency on the Stratford route - be interesting to see how reliable it is with the single track stretches.

Also on the Stratford route through Bow-Church, Saturday / Sunday is currently 6 tph (every 10 mins). Service frequency will be increased at busy times below, unchanged early morning / evening.
Saturday increased to 12 tph 09:00-21:00
Sunday increased to 12 tph 10:00-19:00

Looks as though the Beckton-West Ham service is discontinued, to be replaced by a Beckton-Canning Town service at certain times to supplement the Beckton-Tower Gateway service. So the losers are Star Lane and Abbey Road, and still only a 10 minute frequency to Stratford International.

And from the Journey Planner for my local Station, Mudchute, it appears that that the 5 minute frequency on the Bank to Lewisham service on Saturdays will now operate until 10pm (currently 7pm).

EDIT: Checking the Bow Church Journey Planner for the morning peak service, it looks as though it's still every other train from Stratford that will continue from Canary Wharf to Lewisham, i.e. every 8 mins instead of every 12 mins, so increasing the morning peak service between Lewisham and Canary Wharf from 20 tph to 22.5 tph.

David

[Deleted]

There's a new full-size poster up now, as follows:

"From Sunday 23 August a new timetable will operate on the DLR including some frequency enhancements, amended routes, and changes to first and last train times.
Between Saturday 29 August and Wednesday 2 September a temporary timetable will operate during a large event at ExCel London.
Trains will continue to run to all DLR stations but they may not always be direct services and you may need to change trains."

I'm not so bothered about the temporary ExCel hiatus, but the more permanent amended routes etc. sound interesting! Others above have already highlighted timing changes. I wonder if we'll get anything more unusual - eg Beckton to Lewisham!

[rsdworker]

TFL has put new photo of new design on facebook and also has link to website - tfl.gov.uk/modes/dlr/improving-the-dlr

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Aug 15, 2015 13:27:09 GMT rsdworker said:

TFL has put new photo of new design on facebook and also has link to website - tfl.gov.uk/modes/dlr/improving-the-dlr

Not bad but prefer the old layout. Better views on board the B2Ks when this change is complete.


link to photo

[Chris M]

The other day (well a couple of weeks ago) I got a couple of photos of a refurbed train (unit 111) as it terminated at Bank:
Middle.

Front.

(click for larger versions)

[superteacher]

Well It's good to see that they still have the front seats for those who enjoy pretending to be driver!

[Deleted]

There's a little more information on the timetable changes in another classic post by DiamondGeezer here: diamondgeezer.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/dlr-service-changes.html

[davidp]

From observation, it appears that although the frequency of the Stratford to Lewisham trains in the morning peak has increased from 5 tph to 7.5 tph, they are now only two-car trains rather than the three-car prior to the timetable changes. Or put it another way, the service has gone from 15 cars per hour to 15 cars per hour. Erm ...

[snoggle]

TfL have published a document about DLR and Overground growth and proposed service enhancements.

content.tfl.gov.uk/rup-20151016-part-1-item09-lo-and-dlr-growth.pdf