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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2006 19:17:18 GMT
While on the Northern today, I was surprised to see trains numbered in 3xx and 4xx series (I was travelling on T301), whilst the other day I travelled the numbering was the same as it has been for years (0xx and 1xx). Is this an emergency timetable measure or other plan?
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Post by Tubeboy on Jun 2, 2006 19:22:48 GMT
Yes Alex, when the sevice goes to pot, which is fairly frequently!!!, the numbers in the 300 and 400 series are used, the highest number I have seen is 437. Yes I am a saddo! ;D
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2006 22:35:02 GMT
Yes Alex, when the sevice goes to pot, which is fairly frequently!!!, the numbers in the 300 and 400 series are used, the highest number I have seen is 437. Yes I am a saddo! ;D Didn't you see a 477 as well?! I believe the number ranges related to which branch the train was running on as the emergency timetable split the service into two sections - so the 3xxs were running Edgware - Morden via Bank, and the 4xxs were running Edgware - Morden via CX. And it could have been the other way round! I've also known emergency services put in place on the Northern Line where trains are numbered up according to which train crew depot the driver is based at....which I think is helpful as the line controller can make quicker decisions about where that train needs to run to more in advance, if he/she is coming the end of their shift.
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Post by Tubeboy on Jun 3, 2006 8:50:31 GMT
477 is the number of the engineers train/s.
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