Recent content by Daniel

Sounds about right.

Whenever I've compared the journey planner to the Northern Line working timetable it tends to be accurate to the minute, so I can only assume it's the working timetables which provide the data to it.

Yes.... just not very well. FCFS is used fairly often at Finchley junction (SB), and NOOT occasionally at Kennington (SB). I wouldn’t risk using it in the Camden area though!

The Northern and Jubilee lines still have digital program machines, which can be set by the Signaller to NOOT, FCFS or Normal. (NOOT - No Out Of Turns. FCFS - First Come First Served).

The Piccadilly line strike has been called off; the Central & Waterloo & City line strikes are still set to go ahead.

Again, seems to be working fine for me. Perhaps, as Mojo suggests, you’re looking at a point to point with very limited direct services, hence you’re getting the correct results. WTT’s are listed here for anyone else who may need them...

Ready to stand corrected, but I doubt a ticket to London Terminals would be valid for a journey into London then onto the tube up to HOH. You could presumably use Chiltern coming south to HOH and then break your journey there to exit. However, you haven't said where you're actually coming from...

Trains stop suddenly all the time. Loss of door close visuals being one of the most common reasons on the tube.

Regarding why someone with a sensory disability may need a seat, if a train suddenly stops a completely blind person can’t see a pole to hang on to. Regarding dogs tucking themselves out of the way. They are trained to do this, but it requires the person to be sitting. The dogs then occupy the...

Yes it means the train is laying deicing fluid.

But you noticed it and listened to the message within the announcement enough to recall it and post about it, which was the whole point. It may sound idiotic, but it works. Though I will readily admit there’s no reason for the volume to be excessively loud.

As others have said trains are regulated to (try to) ensure even gaps between trains. It doesn’t matter if the whole line is 20mins late as a customer we’ll still see exactly the same train intervals, theoretically. If you’re asking why the driver was so specific with 68 seconds it’s because...

The Northern line has several test runs a day between the two major depots at the moment, which are brake block conditioning runs

The StanEx units do have in-cab CCTV. You can see each camera poking out at the end of each carriage. If an older unit were to be run on the StanEx (a 317 for example) then it would require CD/RA at Tottenham Hale if staff were present.

Mojo has covered most things, only thing I'll say is controllers don't ignore calls on the open channel, it's just often they don't hear them. Unless the controller has the radio headset to his or her ear at that moment it's difficult to hear from the speaker in an open control room at a moment...