Victoria Line 25/5

[Dave W]

Morning,

I went down to Pimlico after a few after work sherberts last night to find the station closed.

I note it's been closed of late per this thread but the signage seemed to insinuate that the entire line was closed from Warren Street south for urgent repairs to the track.

Is this related to the speed restriction that I noticed at the weekend between Oxford Circus and Green Park southbound? The trains I got crawled through.

(As an aside, this episode shows how removing a turn up and go service can throw even an experienced and confident user. I had a flap about how to get home and even considered a taxi before getting my head together and getting a bus to Hyde Park Corner for the Piccadilly home)

 

[Dstock7080]

Services were suspended Warren Street-Brixton after 2130 due to a cracked rail on points at Victoria SB.
This had already impacted the service from 0930 as a temporary speed restriction of 33kph necessitated a 20 train service to be operated.

 

[Dave W]

Ah thanks - very unlucky then as we left at 2130 so I must have missed the last one by about 5 minutes!

Cheers!

 

[pelli]

This had already impacted the service from 0930 as a temporary speed restriction of 33kph necessitated a 20 train service to be operated.

This would explain why the Victoria Line train I travelled on yesterday afternoon was completely packed, and I had no choice but to squeeze on as the next one was many minutes behind. I could have avoided the Victoria Line completely on an alternative almost-equally-fast routing (thus making the journey more comfortable for both me and the other Victoria Line passengers that would have one less person to squeeze in with), and I checked the TfL Status Updates web page beforehand which showed "Good Service" on all lines, so finding out that the reduced frequency was known about but not announced to passengers annoys me greatly.

That being said, I have now just stumbled upon a website, https://truetubestatus.com/ , which publishes unofficial status updates by measuring headways and running times (with thresholds of 15% delay for "Minor Delays" and 30% for "Severe Delays") , plus colour-coded schematic line dragrams showing where things are going wrong. They were stating "Severe Delays", rather than the official "Good Service", on the Victoria Line at the time I was choosing which route to take: https://twitter.com/TrueTubeStatus/status/1529481192927543296 , so I'll just use them in the future.

 

[rebmcr]

That being said, I have now just stumbled upon a website, https://truetubestatus.com/ , which publishes unofficial status updates by measuring headways and running times (with thresholds of 15% delay for "Minor Delays" and 30% for "Severe Delays") , plus colour-coded schematic line dragrams showing where things are going wrong. They were stating "Severe Delays", rather than the official "Good Service", on the Victoria Line at the time I was choosing which route to take: https://twitter.com/TrueTubeStatus/status/1529481192927543296 , so I'll just use them in the future.

That's wonderful!