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Post by brentwoodo on Apr 1, 2024 6:11:56 GMT
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Post by redshank on Apr 1, 2024 10:41:02 GMT
Got caught out I must admit,but it was a good laugh.Great pictures of Harry as well.
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Post by dohnut on Apr 1, 2024 11:19:38 GMT
Some wag on Facebook said the game was off. Had a quick check, would not be amused. As for April fool, that’s me. Sitting on a train looking out at the rain coming down, reports of driver shortages on the central line just to see what is largely a nothing game for us. More fool me!
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Post by redshank on Apr 2, 2024 10:18:14 GMT
My TFL website put the central line as having a good service.It is not a lack of drivers,more a lack of trains as they are being updated or something similar.
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Post by Fisch on Apr 2, 2024 11:21:52 GMT
My TFL website put the central line as having a good service.It is not a lack of drivers,more a lack of trains as they are being updated or something similar. My old colleagues tell me it is all about a lack of investment in keeping the trains up to scratch, now it has become critical and the stock are being updated one by one, each is a major operation. In the meantime, the rest are falling to bits or are being damaged by over-use as demanded by the bean counters and TfL political leaders. Given the knowledge of where we are, there should have been an interim timetable introduced to make better regulated use of fewer trains rather than fix the service as best they can on a daily ad-hoc basis. In short, too many careers are at stake at the higher echelons to take the required action in view of the current state of the rolling stock. There are also problems in recruitment control room staff as their workload and performance levels are now beyond what even the most talented people can keep up with. They can't recruit new people and the existing staff are embattled from all directions. It's a good time to be a retired Train Services Control Manager  |
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Post by arrgee on Apr 2, 2024 13:29:05 GMT
Given he has yet to win anything at club or international level, it would probably be for the best  |
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Post by redshank on Apr 2, 2024 15:30:20 GMT
My TFL website put the central line as having a good service.It is not a lack of drivers,more a lack of trains as they are being updated or something similar. My old colleagues tell me it is all about a lack of investment in keeping the trains up to scratch, now it has become critical and the stock are being updated one by one, each is a major operation. In the meantime, the rest are falling to bits or are being damaged by over-use as demanded by the bean counters and TfL political leaders. Given the knowledge of where we are, there should have been an interim timetable introduced to make better regulated use of fewer trains rather than fix the service as best they can on a daily ad-hoc basis. In short, too many careers are at stake at the higher echelons to take the required action in view of the current state of the rolling stock. There are also problems in recruitment control room staff as their workload and performance levels are now beyond what even the most talented people can keep up with. They can't recruit new people and the existing staff are embattled from all directions. It's a good time to be a retired Train Services Control Manager Met one of those SCM on a bus and had a chat.Was it you fisch.My neighbour who taught prospective train drivers on the Central Line retired last year due to the attitude of those he tried to teach. |
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Post by billk53 on Apr 2, 2024 15:52:08 GMT
Should never have got rid of the 59/62 stock imho!
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Post by Fisch on Apr 2, 2024 16:06:00 GMT
Could be Redshank, l was the SCM on the Central Line from about 1990 to 2000 ish, right through the massive improvement programme of new stock, signalling and control systems - damn near put me in my grave.
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Post by Fisch on Apr 2, 2024 16:09:11 GMT
Should never have got rid of the 59/62 stock imho! I do have a soft spot for "Conventional" stock like the 38s and 59/62s, l drove them in the 70s but they were chronically wasteful of energy and had no regenerative braking so we left clouds of Ferodo dust every time we stopped at a station. Not healthy that 😐 |
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Post by Thor on Apr 2, 2024 17:47:56 GMT
Could be Redshank, l was the SCM on the Central Line from about 1990 to 2000 ish, right through the massive improvement programme of new stock, signalling and control systems - damn near put me in my grave. I used to live in Epping and got the central line everyday for about 8 years. I always swore that if I saw Ken Livingstone on the tube I’d have punched him! So many problems with that line it was unreal. I was on the tube when they recorded the hottest temperature ever recorded on the underground. We won’t allow animals to be transported above I think it’s 28 degrees yet here we were in 47 degrees. Still I’d move back there again, maybe one day when the kids are all off hand. |
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