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Post by londonstuff on Feb 5, 2013 20:59:25 GMT
I came across this from Mikey Ashworth's Flickr stream. As he says in the description, it's fascinating how much has changed in the last thirty years.  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2013 21:17:53 GMT
Roding Valley was my closest station and I can always remember the platform gates shut at weekends. The footbridge remained open and if you took your time crossing you saw a Cravens 60TS with standard stock trailers or a 67TS or very occasionally a train of three car 73TS with half red cabs. That one had parts of the carriages full of test equipment. I travelled on all of them.
It's open all week there now, unmanned, and has lost that rural feeling it once had.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2013 16:44:17 GMT
This must date from the time when the Olympia branch only operated during exhibitions - so why wasn't Kensington Olympia included?
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Post by Dstock7080 on Feb 6, 2013 16:56:52 GMT
This must date from the time when the Olympia branch only operated during exhibitions - so why wasn't Kensington Olympia included? Good question! Yes, it should've been on there. |
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Post by rsdworker on Feb 6, 2013 18:38:26 GMT
Roding Valley was my closest station and I can always remember the platform gates shut at weekends. The footbridge remained open and if you took your time crossing you saw a Cravens 60TS with standard stock trailers or a 67TS or very occasionally a train of three car 73TS with half red cabs. That one had parts of the carriages full of test equipment. I travelled on all of them. It's open all week there now, unmanned, and has lost that rural feeling it once had. Unmanned station? - not really - all stations have staff today's weekend station closures are reduced much to only one station - cannon street station which still closes on weekends |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2013 23:52:41 GMT
Unmanned station? - not really - all stations have staff Well in that case they do a very good job of keeping out of sight as I never saw them after they closed the ticket office. I take it you must have found one!  |
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Post by Colin D on Feb 9, 2013 12:12:52 GMT
Didn't Bond Street close at one time as well on Sundays? I seem to recall non stopping at that station in the late 60's.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2013 13:56:02 GMT
The station office at Roding Valley must be very well hidden, Shepherd's Bush Market in the early hours looks empty but you can see the Station Office (with a computer that's on) through a door as you go up the westbound stairs.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2013 21:31:56 GMT
Unmanned station? - not really - all stations have staff Non section 12 stations are not restricted by the same minimum staffing level requirements as those that are, so open air stations can and are occasionally left unstaffed for example if there's staff shortage. |
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Post by stevo on Feb 20, 2013 15:56:21 GMT
Unmanned station? - not really - all stations have staff Non section 12 stations are not restricted by the same minimum staffing level requirements as those that are, so open air stations can and are occasionally left unstaffed for example if there's staff shortage. Are you sure about this? Imagine what the Evening Standard would make of a derailment or other serious incident at or close to an "unstaffed" station with nobody around to assist the train operator. |
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Post by trt on Feb 20, 2013 15:59:17 GMT
Unmanned station? - not really - all stations have staff Non section 12 stations are not restricted by the same minimum staffing level requirements as those that are, so open air stations can and are occasionally left unstaffed for example if there's staff shortage. Unstaffed therefore closed, I understood by that. There's a pecking order for closing stations due to staffing levels in order to keep key interchanges and lines open should staff be moved from one station to another temporarily to provide emergency cover. |
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Post by causton on Feb 20, 2013 16:57:32 GMT
Non section 12 stations are not restricted by the same minimum staffing level requirements as those that are, so open air stations can and are occasionally left unstaffed for example if there's staff shortage. Are you sure about this? Imagine what the Evening Standard would make of a derailment or other serious incident at or close to an "unstaffed" station with nobody around to assist the train operator. ...and what happens if the same happens near Gordon Hill station? Or many other mainline stations in Britain? You can't have a member of staff at every station 24/7 so it's lucky that TfL are still trying to aspire to it (note the lack of staff is *only* during staff shortage for now, as I read it!) |
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