Misery Line
Tuesday, December 7th, 2004 05:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanTonight is the last quiz night of 2004. It would be nice to finish the year with a win, but who knows? We're not the quiz team we once were, but we are probably better drinkers.
The Northern Line has been a complete pain this past few days, including the end of last week. There is a reduced number of trains, meaning that those that are left are overcrowded for longer. Is it a stock problem, a track problem, a signalling problem?
No. The drivers' radios aren't working properly.
Station staff have been re-deployed to cover the temporary arrangements. Quite what this means, other than station closures such as at Borough which just happens to be the station I would normally use tonight…
Maybe the staff so released are forming an underground chain to pass paper messages to the tube drivers. I'd have thought that just making sure that the signals worked properly would have done, particularly if speeds were reduced marginally.
How did the Tube run in the days before radio? Each train preceded by a man with a flag, I suppose.
The Northern Line has been a complete pain this past few days, including the end of last week. There is a reduced number of trains, meaning that those that are left are overcrowded for longer. Is it a stock problem, a track problem, a signalling problem?
No. The drivers' radios aren't working properly.
Station staff have been re-deployed to cover the temporary arrangements. Quite what this means, other than station closures such as at Borough which just happens to be the station I would normally use tonight…
Maybe the staff so released are forming an underground chain to pass paper messages to the tube drivers. I'd have thought that just making sure that the signals worked properly would have done, particularly if speeds were reduced marginally.
How did the Tube run in the days before radio? Each train preceded by a man with a flag, I suppose.
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Date: 2004-12-07 11:39 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-12-07 11:46 am (UTC)Hullo, and ta very glad.
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Date: 2004-12-07 11:41 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-12-08 12:54 pm (UTC)More slowly, and with a bigger gap between trains.
I'd be surprised if the 1920's rush hour had a train turning up every 2 minutes, where as the 2000's rush hour does.
I have a rant all prepared about increases in technology doing little but raise expectations unrealistically high if Sir would care to step this way :-)
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Date: 2004-12-08 01:21 pm (UTC)