8 car 377 testing on WCML

[Class377/5]

8 car testing of 377205/206 between Selhurst and Milton Keynes.

5Z75 0930 Selhurst - Milton Keynes
5Z76 1115 Milton Keynes - Selhurst
5Z77 1430 Selhurst - Milton Keynes
5Z78 1615 Milton Keynes - Selhurst

These units are supposed to be staying with Southern past May so looks like its testing for the future 8 car runs.

 

[33056]

377 205 / 206 on this, first two runs appear to have gone off OK but 5Z77 currently running around 40 to 45 minutes late. Is the WCML not getting 5 car 377s now? Some of the services badly need a little more capacity.

 

[YorkshireBear]

Think they are getting all 5 cars with one 8 car diagram.

 

[Alistair G.]

The problem Southern have at the moment is that when their service gets to MKC it is booked into platform 2a (the South Bay) and that can only accomodate a 4 car.

 

[Class377/5]

Plan is for one 8 car and four 5 cars running around from May.

 

[Alistair G.]

I'm not sure where these will platformed in the timetable as platform 2 usually has a London midland MKC - Euston in it, platform 1 is the through (up slow) and platform 3 the down slow.

Whilst u can officially turn back from all 3 I just don't see the gap in the timetable.

Having said all that, I'm not a planner, I'm merely a signaller, so no doubt when it shows up, we will just deal it and get it back to Croydon ASAP!!

 

[Minstral25]

Where will the 8 coach sets be able to stop on the West London Line? Or will SDO be used? I know the platforms are die to be extended to 5 car.

It will mean long dwell times for ADO as the trains on this route are currently full to capacity and moving down a train will be almost impossible.

 

[swt_passenger]

Where will the 8 coach sets be able to stop on the West London Line? Or will SDO be used? I know the platforms are die to be extended to 5 car.

The WLL stations are being extended to 8 car by Network Rail, supposedly by May 2014 - it is a separate project to TfL's 5 car work elsewhere on the LO network.

TfL's contract announcement for the Clapham Jn and Richmond to Stratford routes, the NLL/WLL, made this distinction, but you need to scroll down to the very end: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/media/newscentre/archive/29132.aspx

 

[MK Tom]

The problem Southern have at the moment is that when their service gets to MKC it is booked into platform 2a (the South Bay) and that can only accomodate a 4 car.

I did a thread about this very recently in the infrastructure section.

LM only clash with the 18:13 departure. The rest can all use 2. Others can tell me if there's enough timetable space to use 1 or 3 or reverse at the Wolverton reception sidings. Also it seems to me that 2A will get very little use until the Marston Vale services start.

Still in 2A according to this - http://www.opentraintimes.com/schedule/W61945/2014-05-19