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Post by GentlemanJim on May 4, 2014 21:50:11 GMT
Would appear the Destruct Line is living up to it's name with the 'coming together' on Thursday and again Saturday of a couple of new shiny S Stock.
Side swipes so I understand..... any more info. or a picture or two will be gratefully accepted.
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Post by railtechnician on May 5, 2014 8:00:21 GMT
Would appear the Destruct Line is living up to it's name with the 'coming together' on Thursday and again Saturday of a couple of new shiny S Stock. Side swipes so I understand..... any more info. or a picture or two will be gratefully accepted. One has to postulate that in the final analysis, a lack of joined up thinking and lack of attention to well established and proven standards over decades has a great bearing upon such events. No doubt money or lack thereof will always be advanced as the reason for piecemeal deviation from standards and established practices and LT/LU has always been seen as progressive and innovative even though the system is forever operating out of date technology on a large portion of the network. One has to wonder why, in what is perceived to be an Underground network, there is no effort to create a universal standard for surface and another for tube stock or indeed why there is no ambition to create a single network wide standard. So much money is wasted for all the wrong reasons but the biggest reason IMHO is short termism, the same chronic condition that has affected UK governments for decades. In the past, tunnels have been realigned, rebored, platfroms lengthened and more recently platforms lowered to take new rolling stocks. Presumably the sideswiping issue is due to bad practice in one area of the business or another, changes in the ways that the permanent way is laid and maintained have had an effect just as poor design decisions have been. The modern world is awash with engineers re-inventing wheels having never learned the well established lessons and principles of the past. One would've thought that gauging was the most basic standard of all on a railway, it certainly was an important and overriding principle of operation when I began my railway career almost four decades ago. In more recent times and particularly from the 1980s bad installation practices and reduced levels of maintenance in engineering disciplines have led to an increase in gauging incidents but I have to say that designers trying to squeeze quarts into pint pots don't help. Of course such issues were exacerbated by devolution of lines and outsourcing of engineering apparently to save £taxpayers millions but in real terms costing far more! |
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Post by Nortube on May 9, 2014 8:19:29 GMT
Looks like somebody should have visited East Putney with a tape measure before they let the S stock down there!
Apparently C stock not allowed down that way either at the moment (?)
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Post by Nortube on May 11, 2014 22:15:16 GMT
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