Thanks for the heads up, I'll keep a look out when I'm at Ruislip next week. I note #142 is currently running today with CLIP set 2. Do you know the reason it's running to Ruislip Gardens and reversing in West Ruislip Depot rather than West Ruislip station?
Both platforms at West Ruislip have normal service trains reversing.
Ah ok, just doesn't fit in with rest of the timetable then.
Ah great stuff, thanks for the info
Two trains have been released and have been in service.
Service use is constrained by the number of Train Operators who have had the required training and are qualified to drive the rebuilt trains. At present, they are predominantly being driven by a limited pool of Instructor Operators. With only one train available, the main training programme could not commence because the newly trained operators would have a high chance of not encountering the CLIP train sufficiently regularly enough to maintain their competency. Thus special paths are available to enable the train's use to be planned around the availability of the correctly qualified T/Ops. The first train is due to be handed over from the CLIP Project to 'normal operation' in the next few weeks, but this will still depend on the cohort of staff that are already qualified, so will continue to use the specific paths. When two or three trains handed over for routine operation, the general T/Op training can begin in earnest - the next necessary step towards being able to be used on any normal set working.
Yup used intertube to locate and have a ride on it yesterday as I happened to be at Green Park when 91001/201 on 115 was shown to be at Mile End heading to Ealing Broadway
The enginers must have read this
Frankly who cares about the sound if the maintainability, reliability and performance are improved. Enthusiasts are fine until they actually negatively impact the service by asking to retain obsolete equipment.
I agree!
Okay? They're not in the power to stop the refurbishment programme, they were just expressing their opinion on the motor sound. Did that require the snarkiness?
I agree. The travelling public is what should matter here, not enthusiasts.
The relative 'niceness' of the sound is - just like seat comfort - completely subjective. I don't believe that l was "snarky" but was being very clear about what the priorities should rightly be. In general a public transport service can't be a museum.
I use those trains regularly and improved reliability is desperately required.
Again I completely agree. I think enthusiasts often think that the railway is run for their benefit. It’s regular users that give the railway (or tube!) the most money so they must be top priority. Particularly as the enthusiast that started this has a thumbnail of ‘Chathill’ suggesting they may not use the line very often.
Yeah they have a smooth sound to them.
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