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  1. class717

    New Brent Cross West (Thameslink) station

    ASDO is already implemented either by GPS, or at stations where different platforms have different lengths and also within the core, by use of balise. All that was required for BCZ was an update of the database. All other stations they stop at regularly (including up to Kings Lynn) are already...
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    New Brent Cross West (Thameslink) station

    ASDO on 700s uses GPS at stations where all platforms are the same length
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    New Brent Cross West (Thameslink) station

    The escalators were on at 3am a couple nights ago, they drop into a basically stopped state though before you get on. Worth noting that all the stations along this route are 24/7 and seem to have handled the issues above, although most others are smaller.
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    New Brent Cross West (Thameslink) station

    West London Orbital
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    319 Emergency Front Doors

    Why did/do the 319s have front doors but the 700s don’t require them when they run the same route?
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    Thameslink driver refuses to move train 16/11

    Yes ATO would disengage as soon as it was moved out of off. You’d then be in manual ETCS level 2. If you knocked it it would probably be in to the brake position, if you knock it into traction ATO cuts off and the driver must move back to off to then take traction again
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    Thameslink driver refuses to move train 16/11

    Yes, training started in 2018, all new drivers must sign it. If a driver is trained on ETCS they have to use it over AWS/TPWS, but there is no requirement to use ATO if trained in ETCS, although most do. It’s probably about 50/50 AWS/TPWS and ETCS at the moment if I had to take a guess...
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    New Brent Cross West (Thameslink) station

    Someone’s got a bit ahead of themselves with the codes then, it’s been in the database since the December 2022 change.
  9. class717

    New Brent Cross West (Thameslink) station

    Well the drivers were told they could stop at the new station if they wanted to practice quite a few months ago, although not many if any at all did, for the reasons you said
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    New Brent Cross West (Thameslink) station

    Noticed today that some drivers are now taking up the opportunity that has been available for a while now to practice stopping at the new station
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    Thameslink Core pantograph strike

    For a while trains were routed using the “wrong line” but to get the equipment to remove the pantograph up the side of the train, a line block was needed on both lines as there is no space for such equipment on the cess. 1698673079 They can only take power from one at once, the train had enough...
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    Thameslink Core pantograph strike

    For a while this was what was happening
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    Thameslink Core pantograph strike

    Nope driving manual at the time
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    Thameslink Core pantograph strike

    Yes was an 8 car
  15. class717

    Thameslink Core pantograph strike

    The pan was not dropped. The train didn’t stop at either City TL or Farringdon so no auto changeover commenced.

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