Well it says they will be serving it "as normal" and they won't be serving it so it's technically trueNever knew Chiltern Railways served Wembley Central!
Bakerloo line will now be running normally
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Well it says they will be serving it "as normal" and they won't be serving it so it's technically trueNever knew Chiltern Railways served Wembley Central!
Apparently in the last two years, six people have left Hammersmith Control Centre. Four retirements, two to National Rail.
One person has been trained up as a replacement.
One who left said, "Not even a thankyou from Senior Management, despite running with 4 out of 16 staff for a period last year."
Some of those retirements were early retirements, as Hammersmith is a pain to get to/low morale/short staffed, they just had enough.
It looks to me as though TfL have their heads in the sand, ostrich style, over the issues.
Apparently in the last two years, six people have left Hammersmith Control Centre. Four retirements, two to National Rail.
One person has been trained up as a replacement.
One who left said, "Not even a thankyou from Senior Management, despite running with 4 out of 16 staff for a period last year."
Some of those retirements were early retirements, as Hammersmith is a pain to get to/low morale/short staffed, they just had enough.
It looks to me as though TfL have their heads in the sand, ostrich style, over the issues.
Apparently in the last two years, six people have left Hammersmith Control Centre. Four retirements, two to National Rail.
One person has been trained up as a replacement.
One who left said, "Not even a thankyou from Senior Management, despite running with 4 out of 16 staff for a period last year."
Some of those retirements were early retirements, as Hammersmith is a pain to get to/low morale/short staffed, they just had enough.
It looks to me as though TfL have their heads in the sand, ostrich style, over the issues.
Why on earth, would a business offer early retirement, if it was a critical role and they had no spare trained staff.
If they left voluntarily that is different.
But the terminology early retirement is used when incentivised to leave by the employer, and offered a pension enhancement so it just seems bonkers to me
This appears to be the crux. I don't buy the "oh its hard to recruit" and "oh it's a specialist position". It's been nearly a year now and I'm sure it will be a position that several will be intreested in if sufficiently renumerated and plenty would have the right skils. It's a serious morale and management issue. SWR had a similar problem early on when they moved their control centre.
Why on earth, would a business offer early retirement, if it was a critical role and they had no spare trained staff.
If they left voluntarily that is different.
But the terminology early retirement is used when incentivised to leave by the employer, and offered a pension enhancement so it just seems bonkers to me
No Met at all. Although I no longer live in London. I am still interested in the Met. Being an ex Met employee I was staggered to see there was no Met service. What on earth is happening?MET H&C
District (High St-Edgware Rd)
PICC South Harrow-Uxbridge
suspended from 0900, lack of Control room staff.
It only requires one person to be off for the service to start to be disrupted, depending on the location. At such short notice you may also struggle to find someone available to cover the shift on overtime, particular with such a high number of people unavailable for work due to vacancies / other shifts conflicting with rest periods / self isolation / nice weather / etc.No Met at all. Although I no longer live in London. I am still interested in the Met. Being an ex Met employee I was staggered to see there was no Met service. What on earth is happening?
That's not great for anybody obviously but completely understandable.Control staff pinged by Track and Trace whilst at work according to news reports
To be honest I feel more for people who live further out, beyond Wembley Park, where there are few if any alternatives. I notice that today's status says passengers can use Chiltern Rail services, which is a complete lie because they are also cancelled between London and Great Missenden.I feel for anyone that lives at any tube station between Paddington and Hammersmith via Ladbroke Grove.
TfL often do that. There is a block between Spa Road Junction/Bricklayerms Arms Junction (Basically London Bridge) and Norwood Junction tomorrow and tfl suggest to use southern service between New Cross Gate and Norwood Junction instead of Overground ones, forgetting the fact that the line is blocked to all services.To be honest I feel more for people who live further out, beyond Wembley Park, where there are few if any alternatives. I notice that today's status says passengers can use Chiltern Rail services, which is a complete lie because they are also cancelled between London and Great Missenden.
It only requires one person to be off for the service to start to be disrupted, depending on the location. At such short notice you may also struggle to find someone available to cover the shift on overtime, particular with such a high number of people unavailable for work due to vacancies / other shifts conflicting with rest periods / self isolation / nice weather / etc.
I feel like though ARL and MTR operate almost rather seperately from tfl and are much closely aligned to Network Rail so don't tend to have anywhere near as much issues.We were told that Whitechapel station would be open on Saturday for LO but I rocked up this morning and it was shut. Passengers coming up to me saying "there's nothing on the website about it" and then I have to explain that you have to press the stations button on the status page on the TfL site.
Then last minute cancellation to the Met and Circle only made the matter worse. Then in the afternoon, the Central Line was down between Liverpool St and Marble Arch for a good while. Honestly, not a good year for TfL, poor showing.
I'm hoping that the TfL Rail West holds next weekend when the Piccadilly Line to Heathrow will be down, but no hopes up here.
Customers could use Chiltern services as an alternative between West Ruislip and Marylebone, as there are three stations (West Ruislip, South Ruislip, and Wembley Stadium) that are not far from Met line stations.I notice that today's status says passengers can use Chiltern Rail services, which is a complete lie because they are also cancelled between London and Great Missenden.
We were told that Whitechapel station would be open on Saturday for LO but I rocked up this morning and it was shut. Passengers coming up to me saying "there's nothing on the website about it" and then I have to explain that you have to press the stations button on the status page on the TfL site.
Then last minute cancellation to the Met and Circle only made the matter worse. Then in the afternoon, the Central Line was down between Liverpool St and Marble Arch for a good while. Honestly, not a good year for TfL, poor showing.
I'm hoping that the TfL Rail West holds next weekend when the Piccadilly Line to Heathrow will be down, but no hopes up here.
There was a 345 ETC failure at Stockley Jct causing mayhem for an hour last week.TfL Rail are pretty reliable (now that 345s have stopped breaking down in the tunnels...)
Used to be the reverse and 345 performance used to be atrocious. But yes a bit off-topic.There was a 345 ETC failure at Stockley Jct causing mayhem for an hour last week.
The ETCS failures are far more common on the HeX 387s but they still disrupt the TfL Rail. But that's a story for another thread.
Whilst it's understandable what has happened and can in some context be hard to prevent, it's incredibly poor communication by TfL online and in stations about what is going on and when to expect disruption. District line services to Edgware Road are also affected and it seems the Metropolitan line is also in a state of semi-paralysis this week with majority of trains - especially those not heading to Uxbridge or beyond Baker Street - being cancelled.Looks like the C&H will be closed every night this week from 21.00 until Close of Traffic.
Most frustrating to see that the TfL website describes this as being subject to a “planned closure,” when it was not planned in any usual sense of the word. What was even more annoying is when I left home last night it said words to the effect of “Severe delays until 21.00,” which to me implied that the delays would improve, but of course when 21.00 hit that subsequently changed to “Planned closure.” Now we’re on a new day the website doesn’t mention anything about the fact that the service will be closing early tonight, the only way to find out is to select a date this week that is in the future (because of course you can’t select today’s date) and then it will tell you the closure at 21.00 applies from 19-25 July.
As London continues its recovery, we’re committed to delivering the best possible service that we can. However, due to planned engineering works and a shortage of staff in our control rooms, we’ll have significant service disruption over the weekend (24/25 July 2021).
Services may also be affected at other times at short notice so we’d encourage you to regularly check before you travel. These service disruptions may continue for the foreseeable future.
Circle and Hammersmith & City Lines
- No service on either line on Saturday and Sunday
District Line
- No service between no service between Turnham Green and Ealing Broadway (planned)
- No service between Edgware Road and High Street Kensington, between 06:45 and 11:00 on Saturday and Sunday
Metropolitan Line
- No service on the entire line until 12:00 each day. This will also affect the service on Chiltern Railways between Marylebone and Great Missenden via Amersham
- Please note, there will be rail replacement buses across some affected parts of the line
Piccadilly Line
- No service between Hammersmith and Heathrow/Uxbridge (planned)
The Met is only suspended prior to midday, therefore the information is sort of correct, as you use the Met line after Midday, and the Met line replacement bus before Midday. Dare I say the reason the Piccadilly entry says that is because it was written before the Met closures.Piccadilly line suspended west of Hammersmith, and says use Metropolitan line Rayners Lane - Uxbridge
Go on Metropolitan line and says it is suspended
This will be because those buses also serve District line stations, for instance the bus to Osterley stops for all District stations between Hammersmith and Ealing Bdy, and the bus for Rayners Lane stops at Gunnersbury, Acton Twn and Ealing Common.The District line Headline has the not helpful “part suspended part closure“. do passengers really benefit from knowing in advance if it is suspended instead of closed, as both mean no trains. Oddly if you click into the District Line entry get info about a replacement bus service to Rayners Lane and Osterley (I thought District hasn’t served these for decades)