please empty your brain below
Glad we're on the Northern Line, which seems to be faring rather better than most, and finishes in time for the school holidays.

CornishCockney | 12.04.09 - 1:56 a.m. | #

Function aside, those sure are pretty pictures. I don't see why they can't just shut the whole thing down for the summer and be done with it by the time everyone comes back from holiday.

amanda | 12.04.09 - 2:35 a.m. | #

Don't forget that Network Rail also have their weekend works.
I have a choice of taking the Piccadilly Line in to Central London or SW train service, either to Waterloo or change for District Line at Richmond. One Sunday my local Piccadilly Line station was closed for renovation, the SW train services were running a special timetable, (track work at Clapham Junction), and the District Line to Richmond was not running, (track work at Gunnersbury)
I still got in using the normal buses! Now at weekends I always check the tfl and Network Rail web sites before journey.

John | 12.04.09 - 7:55 a.m. | #

1. You made me click through, because I couldn't see the tables on the feed. (Manipulative git, you are. )
2. I love your tables. Really, I do. They pressed my happy nerd-button. (You're a clever git.)
3. For the first time - perhaps ever, even - I'm happy that my local line is the Northern Line, given it appears to have less engineering works than in previous years. (I'm a jammy git.)

Girl with a One Track Mind | Homepage | 12.04.09 - 8:51 a.m. | #

Last time you posted a weekend warning re: the tube, I needed to make my way to Paddington to catch a train to Cardiff for Wales vs. the All Blacks. Needless to say, I didn't have the time for an alternative route, and it was only your post in the back of my head that got me moving fast enough to catch the most expedient of alternative routes, a cab.

ellie | Homepage | 12.04.09 - 8:59 a.m. | #

A lot of these are closures only of the outer end of a branch. Your table's even less meaningful than TfL's output (which is quite an achievement).

Graham | 12.04.09 - 10:32 a.m. | #

If TFL were to nick this idea, they could use a Javascript rollover or the ALT tag of each block to outline full details of the closure.

Mark | Homepage | 12.04.09 - 10:46 a.m. | #

The Waterloo & City should have each square 3/4 coloured to indicate early closing Sat and all day Sun

Anonymous | 12.04.09 - 10:56 a.m. | #

Driving isn't too much fun either when you get to Hyde Park Corner and find London is closed due to Tamils on the road. 3 hours it took to get home again.

Debster | Homepage | 12.04.09 - 11:52 a.m. | #

All those closures are disheartening. I was feeling entirely too smug initially to no longer need the Victoria line, what with its early evening closures, but then I got my comeuppance now that the Jubilee line is messing up my Saturday outings. Darn inconvenient when you need to be somewhere for a certain time.
One sliver of a silver lining: at least I get to see areas of London I'd never been to before. I would have never thought to travel via Golders Green to get to Moorgate without the Jubilee line shutting shop on me (though I'm not quite sure why I would want to go to Golders Green).
TfL's journeyplanner doesn't always suggest the quickest alternative route first off, so a bit of playing around with leaving/arrival times as well as the 'travel via' option usually does the trick. That tinkering around really gets my inner nerd going!

Giselle | 12.04.09 - 1:36 p.m. | #

I doubt whether they'll ever sort the signalling problems on the Jubilee line, it doesn't matter how often they carry out these engineering works things never get better. We've come to expect a shocking weekend service

H | 12.04.09 - 5:30 p.m. | #

For the last three weekends the District Line has been suspended Wimbledon-Wimbledon Pk, and SW Trains suspended from Surbiton to Clapham Junction. So wherever you want to go it's a replacement bus. Not sure why they couldn't time it so that one of the tube/train was available.

Also it seems that the engineering work has become more disruptive now it's stopped raining at weekends and people actually want to go somewhere. Should have done more in the winter time.

Rob | 12.04.09 - 6:52 p.m. | #

Rob @ 5:52 - Wimbledon LU and NR probably go off together because they are wired into the same electricity supply...

Excellent diagam style DG - would look good as a repeating pattern in an underground station passageway somewhere...

Paul | 12.04.09 - 7:37 p.m. | #

Of course, one thing that your marvellous table can't show are the delays caused by signal failures on the Piccadilly Line (or, of course, any other line for that matter).

I think the moral of the story is 'The tube: you can't live with it, but you can't live without it'.

Andrewh | 12.04.09 - 7:39 p.m. | #

I have resigned myself to spending the Easter holiday reluctantly exploring London by bus.

rachella Sinclair | Homepage | 12.04.09 - 9:03 p.m. | #

I echo "H": The Joob ALWAYS seems to be suspended at the weekends, and your table proves that it will be for far too long. Hey ho ...

Jag | Homepage | 12.04.09 - 10:31 p.m. | #

The Jubilee's meant to be sorted by the end of the year - it's a legacy from the original extension project 10 years ago (!) when crappy old signalling was put in so the thing would be open by the end of 1999 (which it was, just).

darryl853 | Homepage | 13.04.09 - 3:13 p.m. | #

Act in haste, commuters repent at their leisure. I'm rather sceptical that they'll ever get it sorted

H | 13.04.09 - 5:18 p.m. | #

I'm I missing something obvious? Why can't they put all their energy into fixing one line at a time? Wouldn't that make life easier for everyone?

Clair | Homepage | 14.04.09 - 2:38 p.m. | #

Has anybody tried the bus - very slow but much more reliable than the tube (although that's not hard).

Richard | Homepage | 15.04.09 - 3:01 p.m. | #











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