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Post by angelislington on Feb 3, 2008 21:32:51 GMT
Um, poss completely wrong, but I always get to these too late to be able to answer & if this one is still open I fancy a go!
From Gunnersbury station on the Overground heading north, first station from there that connects back to the toob network is Willesden Green?
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Post by angelislington on Jan 25, 2008 23:18:47 GMT
I must say, I continue to be impressed by your photoshoppery.
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Post by angelislington on Jul 3, 2007 21:23:12 GMT
Edgware Road or South Ken (District/Circ). But it does look very Met, as aetearlscourt suggests.
(Thinks: is Aldgate actually out in the open, like this photo is? Can't remember!)
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Post by angelislington on Jul 3, 2007 21:05:37 GMT
East Putney! Well. I have been pondering this for *ages* now, thank heaven someone figured it out!
I try and do these without a map to hand... maybe that's my downfall!
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Post by angelislington on Jun 19, 2007 10:05:22 GMT
Suncloud got the correct answer in his PM, ..... and you're not going to tell the rest of us?? Because robster already has! ;D
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Post by angelislington on Jun 9, 2007 17:06:37 GMT
Complete and random stabs in the dark: Ickenham. Perivale.
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Post by angelislington on Jun 10, 2007 10:25:31 GMT
you're kidding! Well. Shame on me. I went through that station every day for yonks.
Which end is it, the 55 Broadway exit, or the Petty France end?
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Post by angelislington on Jun 9, 2007 17:01:38 GMT
I can only hazard a guess at the rough area - I reckon somewhere around the south-western 'corner' of the Circle, round about Kensington/Earls Court.
Oh! Not Fulham Broadway, is it? <ponders> No, on second thoughts... that's not Zone 1!
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Post by angelislington on Jun 9, 2007 11:47:10 GMT
Makes me think of South Ken, but I don't think that's right.
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Post by angelislington on May 30, 2007 22:13:01 GMT
Oh, please do - I'm not cleva enuff to answer any of them, but I'm really enjoying them!
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Post by angelislington on May 8, 2007 18:54:42 GMT
I suspect its Highgate Depot too - something about the orange cable in the background makes me think Northern Line.
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Post by angelislington on Oct 30, 2006 7:27:55 GMT
Friend of mine put this together recently. Click on a station, name it. A lot of the spelling of names is pretty flexible, for instance Shepherds Bush or Shepherd's Bush and it includes the DLR and NLL too, just for added grr-factor (I told him off for this but he laughed & said tough! ;D). Current score is about 65% (without cheating!) www.waitingforlunchtime.co.uk/tubegame.htmlxx AngelIs
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Post by angelislington on Oct 30, 2006 7:23:44 GMT
what a cool idea, will look out for it.
xx AngelIs
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Post by angelislington on Oct 30, 2006 7:17:26 GMT
Oh nooooo!
I'm poorlysickunwellinbed today, have a laptop & wifi... guess what I'm gonna be doing all day... :-) :-)
xx AngelIs
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Post by angelislington on Jan 20, 2008 21:24:28 GMT
Blimey, look at that photo of all the kids sat on the edge of the platform. I have a vision of that whole class of kids all in wheelchairs after a train came along & chopped all their legs off. Gosh, I'm quite sick sometimes, aren't I. ;D
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Ooo!
Jan 21, 2008 6:47:14 GMT
Post by angelislington on Jan 21, 2008 6:47:14 GMT
Oh no! And I even thought about posting a reminder Sorry guys!
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Ooo!
Jan 20, 2008 21:37:37 GMT
Post by angelislington on Jan 20, 2008 21:37:37 GMT
Met the lovely Abbey Road/ MetroModels peeps today at the Canterbury MRS exhibition. It's absolutely fab to see the whole set-up for real. I hadn't really grasped the scale or layout or anything of the planned scheme with MRFS42 so now I have some great ideas about what to do & how to go about it. Abbey Road's a great little layout and it had 'Victoria' from Underground Ernie trundling up and down too, to the amusement of the kids. I really loved the grafitti details! I was also shown some Standard stock, the attention to detail is really amazing. Now I have to wait until the middle of Feb before I see MRFS again and our baby trains, I can't waaaait! (Oh, and I think I've been persuaded to come along to the Acton depot do in March )
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Post by angelislington on Jan 3, 2008 23:11:29 GMT
I hear from MRFS42 that our lil 38s (00 size) have arrived, woo hoo! (Although i have to admit, I gushed a bit and told him not to let me near them as they're prolly so cute I'd want to hug them. ;D) He's decided on a layout and we're going to call the station Hobbs End. I'm sure he'll pop up soon to fill in further details. Suffice it to say that I'm off to the model train fair which conveniently is a) in Canterbury, b) in two weeks' time, and c) has MetroModels displaying 'Abbey Road' there. Yay!
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Post by angelislington on Jun 19, 2007 10:52:39 GMT
Gosh, thank-you very much! I'm busy reading the '65 peril as I type.
What's the approximate date of the roll lengths? - presumably current since the transfer to Cobourg St?
Seems obvious, perhaps, but the '71 renumbering of the machines: was this done to make them fit in with a standard scheme - I'm thinking of drawer/button numbering at Cobourg St. here.
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Post by angelislington on Jun 18, 2007 15:54:23 GMT
high st ken number 5 machine has a double step at certain times its just the same but the time on that one is 30secs later double stepping actually uses up more of the roll as the info for that particular train is on twice not just once What does S5 at High St. Ken control? Does it allow a 'rethink' out of the bay when it double steps? some machines like S8 at earls court also double step this is if they change there minds at a train which is suppose to go into platform 4 at earls court but goes into number 3 from gloucester road this makes S8 double step so it keeps the roll in order thats if u get a signal operator who knows what there doing and keeping a eye on the machines Does it only double step if the regulator connects it to the desk - rather than doing it all by itself? The Edgware ones seems to imply in the peril that they do it by themselves and are designed to do.
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Post by angelislington on Jun 18, 2007 10:01:31 GMT
Following on from that I've just been reading about 'double-step' programme machines - Edgware in particular:
S.3 This is a double step machine, the first step accepts trains from the depot or the northbound main line into platform 3. The second step controls the route from platform 3 to the depot or offers trains from platform 3 to programme machine S.1
Can anyone hazard a guess at to what the programme roll would look like (comparing the first and second lines)? I think you'd just have the ABCD code change, as this machine would initiate the reversing move.
S.1 in the peril looks after the southbound.
S.4 at Edgware is the same as S.3, but for platform 2 and on to S.1
S.5 the same but for road 16 and platform 1.
Are were? double-step machines used where you reverse on the same line (the 'gap' between the step allowing time for points to throw &c.) for example coming out of the siding at Edgware and waiting for the points to throw to go south, or does the double-stepping enforce a two-minute layover time?
Reading this thread and the peril, I thought that double-stepping would effectively double the length of the roll, which got me thinking about other things too. ;D
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Post by angelislington on Feb 17, 2008 21:33:14 GMT
Evening folks,
About 9-10 years ago I used to commute from Morden to 55 Broadway. I'd change at Embankment and catch the westbound dissie to St James Park.
One thing I used to notice (almost fixate upon!) which I'm hoping someone can verify/explain, was standing on the far west side of the westbound platform, I could look up into the roof and see a tiny chink of light. It was impossible to ascertain exactly what it was, because the rest of the roof was so black and there was no light shining up there (and I don't think I'd have made myself popular shining a torch around!). I don't ever remember seeing it leaking, but I'm positive it was daylight as I couldn't see it at night-time.
Was I going mad? is there a little hole there?
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Post by angelislington on Feb 21, 2008 23:54:29 GMT
- Highgate on the Northern Line might be better as a double blob interchange (like you've done at Moorgate). There would have been able to run from Crounch End to Finchley, but not from Camden Town to Alexandra Palace. Like this?
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Post by angelislington on Feb 21, 2008 21:01:37 GMT
Weird. That Northern one looks way too complicated for yer average pax ;D
I quite like the idea of extending a line to Lewisham, that would be v. v. helpful.
What prog did you use to create them?
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Post by angelislington on Feb 21, 2008 22:28:13 GMT
Asbestos was also used as a noise baffle experimentally in the tunnels between Hampstead and Golders Green... It was all removed via a costly process, and involved wrong line working, supplemented by additional buses! Yes - I've just seen that on the Norvern DVD I'm watching right now! I mean, not seen the asbestos, but heard it being described in the narration. I do wonder, though - if it was successful at minimising noise, I wonder why it wasn't replaced with anything else? Having said that, the tunnel's pretty deep at that point (the deepest section on the whole system, IIRC?) so why would sound-proofing be needed anyway?
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Post by angelislington on Feb 21, 2008 20:13:01 GMT
I'm pretty sure that when on early turns I've noted something that looks suspiciously like a tunnel cleaning train wending its way back towards Ruislip. It certainly seems to have what look like large intakes and storage 'bins' being propelled by battery locos. Or is it my imagination?....... Nah, that's Noo-noo, from the Telly Tubbies. Ruislip is where it's filmed. Anyway, wasn't asbestos in sheets used as lining material in some stations?
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Post by angelislington on Feb 21, 2008 20:37:46 GMT
Hiya,
I too would like to see a version of this error, if I could, pleasethankyouplease!
I collect the odd map, but mainly pre-Beck ones - I am fascinated by the growth of the system, the way the colour system evolved and the geographical layout. I have a 1919 map (called 'Map of London's Electric Railways') and two from 1938. I also got a copy of the 5th and the 6th editions of the fold-out railway track map published by Quail, which is well cool for following when watching a driver's eye DVD.
<thinks... Ooh! I'll stick on one of said DVDs right now, yay! Just the thing for ignoring having to write an essay!>
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Post by angelislington on Feb 16, 2008 17:39:18 GMT
You might be able to find stuff on Youtube for that? That's where MRFS42 got his text-message alert 'This is a Central Line train to Ealing Broadway'.
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Post by angelislington on Feb 12, 2008 21:59:35 GMT
Um .. er... perhaps you would like to read the last 18 words of my last line again. Well - I did, several times, hence asking! You said "anyone who has worked on these emergencies knows many are ... corrected without causing an emergency", which doesn't exactly make sense - if they're not emergencies, then what are they working on? The point is that operating only usually hear about the ones that affect operations i.e. the ones that will or may delay the recharge of traction but cracked rails are discovered throughout night shifts. heh, well /that/ makes sense!
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Post by angelislington on Feb 11, 2008 14:14:12 GMT
I worked on quite a few broken rail emergencies and I'll never forget the person from operating who wanted to know why broken rails always seem to occur just before the start of traffic! Even after I explained it to him he still didn't seem to grasp why although as anyone who has worked on these emergencies knows many are detected and corrected without causing an emergency and usually transparent to operating staff as a result! Um, well can I be dense and ask the same question - why do they? I've heard stories from an old track chargehand on how P-Way sometimes got the service running after a broken rail that made my hair stand on end! oooo you'll have to share, now!
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