Recent content by Nym

I would ask why drivers can’t exact stop on a twin pipe brake when LUL drivers managed it for years to get within the CSDE loops.

S Stock was indeed quite challenging, including return to Derby. These were different teams within LUL unfortunately so more issues made it to London. S Stock did have a lot more mid production design changes as well, the S7 and S8 being actually quite different outside of the basic building...

The majority of the workings of 09TS and S Stock are actually Electrostar electrically, with significant mechanical differences and updates to nomenclature to make it LUL compatible. (Words of the engineer who introduced them, not having worked significantly with an Electrostar I cannot...

I wasn’t saying they’d Multi work with the 222s. The HSTs or 180s couldn’t multi with the 222s either(!)

Units have plenty of single point failures…

stupider things have been done for EMR… see Class 180

All that comes to mind is Ex. VT 221s. They live nearby enough and look similar enough. Even though in reality they’re quite different, conversion training for drivers wouldn’t be too complex

What exactly is this “industry performance rating”…?

Siemens and Stadler to a degree yes. But under the skin Stadler is nowhere near as well built as some of the stuff from the UK (electrically at least) and Alstom Poland where the ICNG was made does suffer some of the same sistemic quality and cost cutting issues as Derby did/does.

Which specified German antennas, German handsets, German cable and used almost exclusively far eastern electronics inside.

Quite. Doesn't mean that the clients' clients' client actually understands HF though.

The HF person in me says the labelling isn't really up to spec and the sizes of the lamps aren't consistent. We also have yet another appearance of the completely ineffective lock wire on the DRA. Oh how we love them on the railway.

I very much doubt that's national grid, well, Western Power Distribution, a National Grid company.

ahhh so it changed again then. Way back when I was in the loop HOPL was broken off from CLIP so it looks like it’s happened again again… CLIP is exceedingly delayed for it to be intergrated and then broken out from a Programme Lift twice!!!

Erm. Nope. CLIP was delivered by COP which is part of capital programmes. HOPL was delivered by COO the operations side. Very few staff shared between these on the engineering side, other than those part of “TfL Engineering”. CLIP was late long before COVID. And yes we did try and get HOPL...