| Topic: | Re:Can we persuade LOROL to reinstate Sunday Services? | |
| Posted by: | Richard Jennings | |
| Date/Time: | 09/02/10 00:54:00 |
| Your posters evidently worked. Well done! The real bombshell for me was the ex-London Travelwatch guy (Jerry someone?) who said that he'd heard on a webcast from last week's TfL Board meeting that Ian Brown (MD, London Rail, TfL) had announced a decision to postpone the North London Line resignalling until after the Olympics. This obviously completely floored the Network Rail, TfL and LOROL people who had been claiming all evening that the resignalling project was the main reason for continued lack of trains on Sundays. I must admit I thought that Jerry had misheard what was said at the board meeting. But he was absolutely right. Ian Brown said that they would do all the "physical stuff" during the blockade (track, stations, drainage), but they would keep the old signalling going. Network Rail would return "later" to do the new signalling. But TfL could still, he claimed, run the improved train service on the old signalling, so we'd get the "4 trains per hour, all day and every day" that we've been promised for the Richmond-Stratford line. This of course calls into question why they would need to close the railway every Sunday for the next 60-odd weeks. I've copied Ian Brown's statement to a couple of rail enthusiast groups to see what they think, as it leaves some unanswered questions. I'd like to join your Acton Central group. (Why isn't it an Acton NLL group, i.e. including South Acton too?) |