Thomas's London Bus Blog

The Rail Replacement Service in Wimbledon and Morden

This weekend there was no Northern Line service running from Morden to Kennington while they test their brand new signaling equipment out. I must say a few weeks ago on Sunday morning after the works on saturday I was on the first Northern Line train out at 6:59am and we had to do a stop safety procedure while in the tunnel between Oval and Kennington. This involves the train stopping at a red signal and waiting for 3 minutes for it to turn green. If the signal doesn't turn green within the 3 minutes then the driver has to depart and cross the red signal at danger. When he crosses the red signal the train does an emergency stop and then departs at 5 mph maximum until the next other signal on the line. Well I say next I cannot remember exactly. Anyway this weekend I saw loads of Dennis Tridents en route. I even saw 9742 YN51KUX which is pictured below I thought she was still in Liverpool for the Meseyrail rail replacement there. Abellio and Go Ahead London did the service together. I have a mix of buses here.