Metro Today, Main Line Tomorrow
Malcolm Dobell, Head of Train Systems
Kate Whelan, Lead Systems Performance Engineer SUP ATC
Agenda
• Background
• Simple line challenges – Victoria Line
• Complex line challenges – Sub Surface Lines
• Application to the main line
• Conclusions
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Introduction
• In 1863, the first steam train operated on what became the Metropolitan Line.
• It carried 30000 people in its first year
• By 2011/121 some 1.173Bn journeys were made
• Passenger numbers are forecast to increase
• LU needs to be able to carry them
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1 latest whole year data
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General Principles for Metro Operation
• To deliver capacity:– High acceleration and braking rates
• 1.3m/s2 and 1.15m/s2 respectively– Short, consistent dwell times
• Lots of wide doors that open and close quickly• Attention to train despatch
– Small train spacing• Lots of signals or moving block signalling
– Manage to the second– ATO
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• For reduced journey time– Higher top speed
• But can harm headways– Even higher acceleration and braking rates– Fewer station stops– Manage ALL causes of “time consumption” and
variability• Door times• Tracking package response• Signalling/ATO response times• Dwell times• Points speeds
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General Principles for Metro Operation
The Scale of the Challenge• More and more demand
• More and more pressure to run 24/7– Later nights on Friday and
Saturday from 2015?
• More and more reliable
• Less cost
• Happier customers
• Lower carbon
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Case Study - A “simple” line
• Walthamstow Central to Brixton
• 21km (13.3 miles)
• Serves 16 stations, 33 platforms
• Services operated:– Brixton – Walthamstow– Brixton – Seven Sisters
• Opened 1969
• Upgrade completed 2012
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Victoria Line
General duty
• 65 mins approx round trip
• Average inter station distance 1.8 km (0.67 km to 3.15 km)
• Dwell time 30 sec to 50 sec
• Min headway 109 sec
• Peak acceleration 1.3 m/s2 braking 1.15 m/s2
• Top speed 80 km/h
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Line Characteristics• Old
• 43 trains
• Passenger numbers:– 2002/3 - 160,000/day
• Train service– 2002/3 - 27 trains per hour
• Signalling system – fixed block ATO
• 37 trains in service
• New
• 47 trains
• Passenger numbers:– 2011/12 - 200,000/day
• Train service– Jan 2013 - 33 trains per hour
• Signalling system – Distance to Go Radio– >400 track circuits
• 39 trains in service
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Victoria Line
Walthamstow Central
Seven Sisters
Brixton
2 stations
11 stations
Full speed overlap
Only small speed reduction
over points
Speed issues over points
The Challenges
• 33 Trains per hour = 109 seconds between trains
• Brixton– Train “N” arrives in platform 1– Train “N+2” will arrive in platform 1 in 218 seconds– Before then train “N” must;
• Unload its customers
• Driver to shut down at South end
• Different driver open up at North end
• Train sets off north and clears the points
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Animation
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Current Challenges• Provide a robust and reliable 33tph service,
– Sufficient recovery to manage minor perturbations.
• Manage our carbon footprint– keep the tunnels cool whilst – increasing the number of trains to meet passenger demands.
• Reversing at Seven Sisters– ramp up to the Peak timetable – integrate with trains from Walthamstow
• Dwells– Some dwells – Victoria, Oxford Circus, Kings Cross can
exceed 60 seconds– No good squeezing dwell only to find that the customers can’t
get on or, worse, get off!
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0 Walthmstow Central
1.45 Blackhorse Road
1.37 Tottenham Hale1.05 Seven Sisters
3.15 Finsbury Park
1.93 Highbury and Islington
2.45 Kings Cross0.74 Euston0.76 Warren St
0.9 Oxford Circus
1.14 Green Park1.09 Victoria1.19 Pimlico0.8 Vauxhall
1.77 Stockwell
1.46 Brixton
Next Steps
• We have 47 trains
• We could put 4 more trains into service
• This could deliver 35 TPH or 36 TPH – up to 100 second headway
• How can we cut 18 seconds off the terminus time??
• That is just one of the challenges!
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Victoria Line
Paddington
Paddington
EdgwareRoad
BakerStreet
Finchley Road
WembleyPark
PrestonRoad
NorthwickPark
Harrow-on-the-Hill
West Harrow
North Harrow
Pinner
Eastcote
Ruislip Manor
Northwood Hills
Northwood
Moor Park
Ruislip
Ickenham
Hillingdon
Uxbridge
Croxley
Watford
Chorleywood
Rickmansworth
Amersham
Chesham
Chalfont& Latimer
Royal Oak
Westbourne Park
Ladbroke Grove
Latimer Road
Shepherd’sBush
Goldhawk Road
Hammersmith
Kensington(Olympia)
BaronsCourt
RavenscourtPark
StamfordBrook
TurnhamGreen
ChiswickPark
ActonTown
WestKensington
Gunnersbury
Kew Gardens
Richmond
Ealing Common
Ealing Broadway
West Brompton
Fulham Broadway
Parsons Green
Putney Bridge
East Putney
Southfields
Wimbledon Park
Wimbledon
Earl’sCourt
SouthKensington
GloucesterRoad
SloaneSquare
Victoria
High StreetKensington
NottingHill Gate
Bayswater
St. James’sPark
Westminster
Temple
Embankment
Blackfriars
MansionHouse
Cannon Street
Monument TowerHill
Aldgate
GreatPortland
Street
EustonSquare
King’s CrossSt. Pancras
Farringdon
Barbican
MoorgateLiverpool
Street
AldgateEast Whitechapel
Stepney Green
Mile End
BowRoad
Bromley-by-Bow
West Ham
Plaistow
Upton Park
East Ham
Barking
Upney Beacontree
DagenhamHeathway
Elm Park
DagenhamEast
Hornchurch
Upminster
UpminsterBridge
Rayner’s Lane
Case Study – Sub-Surface Lines
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The Sub-Surface Lines
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•4 lines: Metropolitan; District; Hammersmith & City; Circle•113 stations•310 track km (40km in tunnel)•279 passenger trains, 55 engineering trains•4 maintenance depots & 10 train stabling locations
The Complexities
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• Mixed train length
• Piccadilly Line Interoperability
• National Rail Interoperability: Chilterns; South West Trains
• Multiple flat junctions (5 complex junctions)
• Inter-meshing services for timetables
What will it look like.......?
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High Level Requirements• 32TPH
• Meet increasing demand
• Reduce overcrowding
• Reduce passenger journey time
• Increase through-put capacity
• Increase service reliability
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Scope – Whole Systems Upgrade• New trains
• New signalling system: Cityflo 650 CBTC system
• ATO/ATP
• Automatic Train Regulation
• Track Upgrades:– Layouts– MSS improvements
• Power Upgrades
• New centralised Service Control Centre
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Status
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SSR Upgrade: % increase in peak capacity(base: Dec 2008)
Metropolitan Line Circle & Hammersmith Line District Line
• Trains - delivered• ATC - final piece of jigsaw
- Unlocks 80% of capacity
New Signalling
New Trains
System Performance Engineering
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Business Requirements
Engineering Requirements ProjectsProjectsProjectsProjects
Operational Requirements
Performance Integration
System Capability
(Optimisation)
Train Service(Timetable)
Specification Verification Validation
Progressively verify and validate design/ proposal against requirements
Modelling and Simulation
• Use of the Railway Engineering Simulator (RES)
• Ensuring Requirements are correct
• Optioneering
• Assurance
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Example – Baker Street• Flat junction (Metropolitan, Circle, and
Hammersmith & City Lines)
• S7 and S8 Stock operating
• 32TPH on Circle and H&C; 28TPH Metropolitan service
• Need to optimise the layout to deliver required service
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RES Demonstration
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The Systems Approach
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The Future• Need innovative solutions to further increase
capacity
• Train configuration – UCL PAMELA
• Mock up of train carriage created to run a series of controlled experiments utilising 110 volunteers from the public
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• Set up to help to inform future train systems design, looking at:• Door Widths• Vestibule Setbacks• Internal Train Layout
Implications for Main Line railways
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Challenges
• Higher speeds– Greater separation– <300m at 50km/h, compared with >2000m at 160km/h
• Mixed traffic– Varieties of traction and rolling stock performance– Variety of stopping pattern
• ALL gobble up capacity
• 12 TPH is doing well!
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0 Walthmstow Central
1.45 Blackhorse Road
1.37 Tottenham Hale1.05 Seven Sisters
3.15 Finsbury Park
1.93 Highbury and Islington
2.45 Kings Cross0.74 Euston0.76 Warren St
0.9 Oxford Circus
1.14 Green Park1.09 Victoria1.19 Pimlico0.8 Vauxhall
1.77 Stockwell
1.46 Brixton
Half an hour on the Victoria Line
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0 London Euston * £ $ & > ? W T B Z
8 Wembley Central . !
11.5 Harrow & Wealdstone * ! £ $ W Z
16 Bushey * W T17.5 Watford Junction * ! £ $ > ? W T Z
21 Kings Langley. £ $ T
23 Apsley. * $ ?
24.5 Hemel Hempstead. . .. * ! £ > ? T Z
28 Berkhamsted . . * ! £ > T Z
31.5 Tring * ! £ $ ? T
36 Cheddington. £ ?
40.25 Leighton Buzzard. & ! > B
46.75 Bletchley . ! £ > ? Z
49.75 Milton Keynes Central & ! £ > ? B Z
An hour on a Main Line
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0 London Euston *
8 Wembley Central .
11.5 Harrow & Wealdstone
16 Bushey 17.5 Watford Junction
21 Kings Langley.
23 Apsley.24.5 Hemel Hempstead. . ..
28 Berkhamsted . .
31.5 Tring
36 Cheddington.
40.25 Leighton Buzzard.
46.75 Bletchley .
49.75 Milton Keynes Central
Another hour on a Main Line
Opportunities
• Passing places
• Consistent traction and rolling stock
• Consistent stopping patterns
• Attention to dwell time
• Flying junctions
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Conclusions
• Most lines can have an increase in capacity
• It requires attention to every aspect of operation (just like any production line)
• Mixed traffic “eats” capacity
• With increasing demand for capacity, metro principles will be increasingly applied to the main line.
• Modelling at engineering level is vital
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The endThank you for your interest