Engineering work this weekend just passed 22/23 on the Picc

[rmt4ever]

Right so I went on a holiday with some friends and we was due to return on Saturday 22nd (which we did).

When we was planning the trip it said on TfL that there was no Picc beyond Osterley towards town, so I said we might as well buy HEX tickets. We did in advance to save queuing at the booking office at Heathrow railway station.

However on Sunday (day after we got home) we discovered the Picc seemed to be RUNNING a full service.... What the flip? Was the engineering work just on Sat only (unlikely) or cancelled???

My friends were FURIOUS at me, for making them shell out MEGA £££££s for the rip off HEX, with me saying Picc was shut, then to find it was running that weekend!

happybunny= mr unpopular!!

 

[Dstock7080]

The planned works for 22-23/6 on the District & Piccadilly Lines were cancelled on Mon 10 June.

 

[rmt4ever]

Typical.
Tfl are always telling us to check before you travel, plan in advance etc, and when you DO that it costs you mega bucks for nothing !
Oh well

 

[455driver]

What was wrong with Heathrow Connect? No need to use HeX.

 

[12CSVT]

I always thought Heathrow Express accept Underground tickets when the Piccadilly line Heathrow branch is closed for planned engineering works.

 

[DavyCrocket]

I always thought Heathrow Express accept Underground tickets when the Piccadilly line Heathrow branch is closed for planned engineering works.

Not nowadays. Costs too much.

It's very very rare to have HEx have any LU ticket acceptance at all.
There has been Heathrow Connect acceptance - on a Sunday - with an hourly service, which wasn't particularly useful!

 

[Daniel]

I do remember once when working for LU, requesting ticket acceptance on Heathrow Connect owing to an issue on the Picc. After a brief disagreement, when they initially said they don't pass for LU at all, they gave me two departure times from Paddington which LU passengers could travel on. Very difficult saying that 'LU tickets are being accepted on the xx:xx and xx:xx Heathrow Connect service from Paddington'. Almost worth saying nothing to avoid confusion/passengers turning up and not being able to join a train.


On the subject of cancelled engineering works, doesn't the OP think it's better that, if the works are cancelled for whatever reason, it is better for trains to run, instead of the line being suspended needlessly?

 

[DavyCrocket]

On the subject of cancelled engineering works, doesn't the OP think it's better that, if the works are cancelled for whatever reason, it is better for trains to run, instead of the line being suspended needlessly?

I know this happening and been working for at least over half a dozen times!

 

[rmt4ever]

I do remember once when working for LU, requesting ticket acceptance on Heathrow Connect owing to an issue on the Picc. After a brief disagreement, when they initially said they don't pass for LU at all, they gave me two departure times from Paddington which LU passengers could travel on. Very difficult saying that 'LU tickets are being accepted on the xx:xx and xx:xx Heathrow Connect service from Paddington'. Almost worth saying nothing to avoid confusion/passengers turning up and not being able to join a train.


On the subject of cancelled engineering works, doesn't the OP think it's better that, if the works are cancelled for whatever reason, it is better for trains to run, instead of the line being suspended needlessly?

They should have paid for my expensive rail tickets

 

[Deerfold]

I know this happening and been working for at least over half a dozen times!

What?!

 

[DavyCrocket]

What?!

Yes! Engineering works being cancelled but the closure kept on!

As well as weekend closures to test a new train on one of the days only!

 

[Deerfold]

Yes! Engineering works being cancelled but the closure kept on!

As well as weekend closures to test a new train on one of the days only!

What I meant was that your previous sentence didn't seem to be English.

Now I understand what you meant. Do you know when this has happened? I can only see it making LU's life more difficult if they have closures that aren't needed.

They get enough flak from the media for essential closures without making it worse.

 

[Antman]

I always thought Heathrow Express accept Underground tickets when the Piccadilly line Heathrow branch is closed for planned engineering works.

That used to happen but apparently there was some dispute about payments

 

[Deerfold]

That used to happen but apparently there was some dispute about payments

It was quite simple - Heathrow Express upped the amount they wanted to accept Underground tickets during disruption.

And then there was the fact that when people got wind of the acceptance they'd buy a travelcard or single to Heathrow via the tube at Paddington so tickets bought at Paddington stopped being allowed as HEX saw this as abstracting from their revenues.

Very briefly they accepted TfL staff passes during closures on the Piccadilly line (largely to allow staff to get to work) but that gave up long before the public acceptance.