Tube Lines: Signalling Upgrade

Upgrade the signalling on all three lines, bringing increases in capacity and reliability and reducing journey times.
The Jubilee line upgrade will be completed in 2009
The Northern line upgrade will be completed in 2011
The Piccadilly line upgrade will be completed in 2014

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[r27redbird]

the jubilee line 'ran as effeicently as possible' before these clowns started fitting ATO equipment.

[Alstom1995]

I bet as soon as the jubilee get's it's ato the 1996's will be a lot worse for wear, and I dare say a derailment will occur somewhere.

[ThePborodan]

Just Think How Much All This is Gonna Cost With These 'cuts'!!!!

[86501freightliner]

Well we can thank Tublines for even MORE delays on weekends until October now!

[endof2012]

this is an old system, nothing to compare with the latest technology.

maybe 20 years ago, or when there are only 10-15 trains on the whole line and at speeds of max 20mph.

as for thales.....lol

they dont have railway experience,

a bit like most of the managers,

looks good on paper but thats it

london underground should be london underground.

too many bods from tfl and contractors getting invloved messing everything up.

tubelines R.I.P

[mrcalculin]

The pressure on the contractor, Thales to deliver is also so immense that critical mistakes are often being made and overlooked. The pressure on the signalling testing staff is also such that actual fist fights have taken place in the offices and despite the fact that it's gross misconduct and the brawlers are all contractors so therefore easily expendable, Thales daren't sack them because if they did they would have no workforce. If the Evening Standard knew this they would be out for blood!!!

[mrcalculin]

For all you tubelines haters out there the one positive to come out of ATO and tubelines obsession with it, is that it will finally kill off the last remaining privateer on the Underground. If the Jubilee Line is complete by December 2009 then tubelines will start to incur penalty charges at the rate of ten million pounds per week, which they cannot afford and they will soon go the way of metronet and back to LUL (now TFL) hands.

[mrcalculin]

Obviously you've never been in the Neasden control room on the weekend closures when trains are frequently 'lost' on the system. If the new system can't cope with six test trains how on earth will it cope with a full fleet???

[321loverdesirohater]

Why replaced the tripcock system? Its fine as it is!

[321loverdesirohater]

That had nothing to do with ATC/ATO!

[Alstom1995]

Not true, the trains speed is down to the amount of braking allocation which is currently governed to a percentage. The more braking given to the train the faster it travels. Ato doesn't change the speed of the train, it's the power given to it that does. So even now in manual, the 199x stock are capable of fast speeds, it's just down to the governing of their power.

[Alstom1995]

How can a system like the tripcock that's been going on for way before tubelies existed, with a brilliant proven safety record need replacing?!

Now instead of an object in the track striking a train underneath, it's down to automation to stop the train, that's quite worrying! Derailment and collisions here we come!