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« Reply #1560 on: December 19, 2016, 14:41:57 »

I doubt the general commuter knows what Relief lines are - so no problem using 'slow' in this context! But Signaller, surely?
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« Reply #1561 on: December 22, 2016, 19:58:16 »

Another wonderful day of multiple signal failures. Maybe I was just unlucky but my train in was cancelled 10 mins after it was due and my train home ran non-stop skipping the scheduled stops.

Is there more work than usual happening in the Christmas run up or has this week just been worse than normal?
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« Reply #1562 on: December 23, 2016, 11:22:34 »

Is there more work than usual happening in the Christmas run up or has this week just been worse than normal?

Sounds about normal. today's 11:18 ex Reading stopper to Padd left Reading 6 late

Just hope that all the work that affects running trains gets done over Christmas
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« Reply #1563 on: January 04, 2017, 14:01:15 »

Alterations to services between Slough and Ealing Broadway

Following damage to the overhead electric wires between Slough and Ealing Broadway some lines have now reopened.
Train services running through these stations are returning to normal but some services may still be delayed or revised. Disruption is expected until 14:30 04/01.


................they're not even being used yet are they?
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« Reply #1564 on: January 04, 2017, 14:04:42 »

Hayes electric services....
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« Reply #1565 on: January 04, 2017, 14:27:54 »

Hayes electric services....

..............not a very promising start?
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« Reply #1566 on: January 04, 2017, 14:30:31 »

I think ChrisB is a little wide of the mark as the Hayes electric services use no new electric wires over what the existing Heathrow Express and Heathrow Connect services use.  Will try and find out the real reason...
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« Reply #1567 on: January 04, 2017, 14:36:23 »

Is that an auto-generated public message? Whatever it was due to, I can't see any trains that were affected. Mind you, with only 10 minutes between the problem and its fixing (or rather the messages about them) it would be hard to spot.
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« Reply #1568 on: January 04, 2017, 14:38:08 »

I think ChrisB is a little wide of the mark as the Hayes electric services use no new electric wires over what the existing Heathrow Express and Heathrow Connect services use.  Will try and find out the real reason...

Following damage to the overhead electric wires between Slough and Ealing Broadway some lines have now reopened.

Where does it refer to new wires?
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« Reply #1569 on: January 04, 2017, 15:03:08 »

Nowhere.  Although why mention Slough to Ealing Broadway if it's on the existing Over-Head Line Equipment (OHLE) network?  Also, the Hayes electrics seem to have been unaffected.

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« Reply #1570 on: January 04, 2017, 15:06:03 »

So people know that they can still reach Slough from the west or Ealing Broadway from PAD» (Paddington (London) - next trains)?
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« Reply #1571 on: January 04, 2017, 15:17:21 »

As suspected it was on the new section of Over-Head Line Equipment (OHLE) still to be commissioned, and no doubt still with temporary fixings.  From the NR» (Network Rail - home page) log:

13:22 Advised by TVSC» (Thames Valley Signalling Centre - about) Slough Signaller that a member of Balfour Beatty staff has requested the Up and Down relief lines blocked to allow him to access the overhead lines to tension the overhead line on the up relief 17m 18ch as it is touching the tops of trains.

Not great that another bit of new kit is interfering with trains, but the disruption was minimal and again it's not a reflection of how durable the new kit will be when fully installed and commissioned.  If you are guessing ChrisB, perhaps indicate that with a question mark after your post like you did in your last reply?

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« Reply #1572 on: January 04, 2017, 15:27:39 »

Because, if it had been the original OHLE, and there was nothing in that message to suggest otherwise, the answer to

Alterations to services between Slough and Ealing Broadway

Following damage to the overhead electric wires between Slough and Ealing Broadway some lines have now reopened.
Train services running through these stations are returning to normal but some services may still be delayed or revised. Disruption is expected until 14:30 04/01.


................they're not even being used yet are they?

Would have been as I stated.

Thinking aloud, I accept the use of the question mark, but only because it may also have been the Connect services.
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« Reply #1573 on: January 04, 2017, 15:54:45 »

The question mark makes the world of difference - otherwise I'm sure most would have read that post taking it that you knew the cause, rather than making what turned out to be an inaccurate assumption.
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« Reply #1574 on: January 04, 2017, 16:20:28 »

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As suspected it was on the new section of OHLE still to be commissioned,

So *not* between Ealing & Slough?

Have you taken GWR (Great Western Railway) to task as heavily as you did me? As they will surely have misled a *lot* more pax than the few reading my response.
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