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Post by ruislip on Jan 17, 2022 18:30:07 GMT
I was referring to set numbers in the 20x range, unless I got mixed up and actually travelled on SN 230.
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Post by ruislip on Jan 16, 2022 22:08:10 GMT
When did the Picc stop using set numbers starting with 200? Two years ago I remember riding on SN 203 on Valentines evening between Eastcote and South Harrow with my wife(BTW her first trip outside the USA). It was ex-Uxbridge terminating at Arnos Grove.
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Post by ruislip on Mar 22, 2020 18:54:43 GMT
Example of a difference I discovered last month. Line A--this train terminates at ... Stratford; Line B--This is a ... line train to ... Cockfosters.
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Post by ruislip on Feb 29, 2020 17:23:10 GMT
Are they timetabled, or used as a last resort to recover from late running? On 14/02/2020 I saw one at Finchley Rd while waiting for an Uxbridge train to take me to Eastcote.
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Post by ruislip on Feb 29, 2020 17:18:44 GMT
I noticed one at Wembley Park on 17/02/2020 while traveling on the Met to Baker St. Would this train run into the Depot at Stratford (like Central line terminators at Grange Hill or Ruislip Gardens)?
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Post by ruislip on Feb 21, 2020 22:18:24 GMT
I have not seen those changes this past week in my Picc travels.
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Post by ruislip on Feb 21, 2020 22:16:39 GMT
Sunday evening there were trains running through to Uxbridge. I caught one at Alperton then returned on one an hour later to Eastcote.
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Post by ruislip on Feb 21, 2020 22:08:36 GMT
Even though I finally got to travel on the B'loo this past week, I feel that they are the dungiest trains on the network.
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Post by ruislip on Aug 20, 2019 1:19:40 GMT
This must have been filmed in the first part of 1975, as there are no 73 stocks--plus the departure sign for the first train out of Cockfosters says "Hounslow"
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Post by ruislip on Jan 28, 2019 17:22:15 GMT
What was the origin of the name 'Ginny"
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Post by ruislip on Aug 6, 2017 23:10:59 GMT
I travel from Farringdon to West Harrow on a regular basis, when last Friday evening (July 21st) about 8.45pm a Met line train arrived destination Raynes Lane, most unusual in my experience, is this a normal accurance or an operational adjustment? The driver was most helpful explaining to us that Rayners Lane was a station on the Uxbridge branch, he also suggested that passengers travelling to Paddington should change at GreatPortland Street, and wait on the platform for a Hammersmith & City line train instead of Baker Street, where there were many stairs to negotiate, I'm sure any passengers with suit cases to carry or walking difficulties would have appreciated this advice, a case in my opinion of this driver going the extra mile. jimjams Are announcements ever made on Baker St terminators from the suburbs that it's easier to change at Finchley Road for destinations beyond Baker St than it is at the latter--given a potentially long walk/stairs to deal with?
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Post by ruislip on Aug 6, 2017 23:08:56 GMT
There are no scheduled Met trains which reverse at Rayners Lane, so it would have been a late running train or one which happened to be in the wrong timetabled path after an earlier operating issue. A signal failure at Aldgate East was disrupting H'smith & City services until 19:15 between Moorgate and Barking. As is the classic case with the SSR, this gave the Met some grief and inevitably led to services being cut short. We can only assume that Harrow-On-The-Hill had a limitied reversing capacity at the time so Rayners Lane was chosen to squeeze an extra service in to reverse there. What about Ruislip, given that Rayners is used as a normal reversing point for short-working Piccadilly Line trains on the Uxbridge branch?
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Post by ruislip on Apr 24, 2017 17:04:57 GMT
I remember reading in Capital Transport's history of the Piccy about plans in the 1980s to divert the Uxbridge services to HSK.
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Post by ruislip on Apr 24, 2017 17:02:15 GMT
I guess including the Chiltern and its predecessors on Metropolitan timetables is like Looney Tunes producing cartoons with both the Road Runner and Wile E Coyote! #inseperable
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Post by ruislip on Mar 25, 2017 21:55:57 GMT
The 1960 stock also had big windows and pull down ventilation flaps inside, which were subsequently utilised on the 1967 stock build. Here's a picture of 1960ts driving cars at Hainault (with 2 x Standard stock trailers in a right state) And here's a picture of a 1967ts prior to service introduction. There are indeed a lot of similarities with the window configuration. Manufacturers for the 1960ts were Cravens of Sheffield and the 1967ts, Metro Cammell of Birmingham. Wasn't the '67 taken at Ruislip depot? I used to have that postcard in my collection.
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Post by ruislip on Mar 25, 2017 21:52:52 GMT
A question or two about slows and fasts/semi-fasts arriving simultaneously at HOTH(both up and down). Was this practice started in MR days, or did it commence in the LT era? Does this practice continue today, even though fasts and semi-fasts only run in the peaks? Are the "super-fast" trains that used to operate in the peak flow direction between Chesham and the city still on the timetable (the ones that non-stop HOTH)?
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Post by ruislip on Oct 9, 2016 23:31:41 GMT
Could the west end Central line RAT be used on the Met if no A or D stocks are available (and it isn't required on the Central line)? I would say so, for no other reason than the ease of transferring it from Ruislip depot to the Uxbridge branch of the Met/Picc.
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Post by ruislip on Oct 9, 2016 23:24:18 GMT
It said that due to passenger action at Stratford, there were delays between North Acton & West Ruislip. But wouldn't that same action also affect services to Ealing Broadway?
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Post by ruislip on May 6, 2014 16:54:33 GMT
Wouldn't Gloucester Rd or South Kensington be a more logical place to change for a Circle than Earls Court? The Circle never served Earls Court.
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Post by ruislip on May 5, 2014 15:50:52 GMT
While we are at it, here is the train describer at St James's Park (Westbound) on 17th April 1963 I wonder what the fine print at the bottom of the signs say?
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Post by ruislip on May 5, 2014 15:48:27 GMT
The 93 used to do a Summer Sunday extension to Dorking Bus Station (from Putney) The 65 used to run from Argyle Road, Ealing to Leatherhead. This was an extra mile north of Ealing Bsroadway The 12 with extensions ran from South Croydon to Harlesden, but there were few, if any, through journeys The 710 ran Amersham to Crawley And by the start of the London Country era, the 710 was reduced to a glorified bus service between Uxbridge and Amersham.
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Post by ruislip on Apr 29, 2014 1:09:16 GMT
I wonder how many passengers were naive to think by reading the back of the map that they could travel directly on the Northern City Line(Highbury Branch) to Cockfosters.
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Post by ruislip on Feb 17, 2014 2:09:30 GMT
It is designed like engines in the US to an extent.
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Post by ruislip on Feb 13, 2014 18:45:12 GMT
I wonder if it reversed there, Ruislip siding, or Uxbridge?
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Post by ruislip on Jan 25, 2014 8:58:46 GMT
The train describes at Baker Street. Large light boxes that showed all the stations the train would stop at. I think they went blank when the signal went green. I think they also were at Wembley Park and Finchley Rd.
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Post by ruislip on Jan 24, 2014 21:06:11 GMT
I have probably shared these before on here, but here goes: The Bakerloo running to both Watford Junction and Stanmore Wondering why as a pre-teenager why the Bakerloo only ran to Watford Junction during the peaks. Marble Arch and Northolt reversers on the Central. What would be known as the Jubilee Line originally christened as the Fleet Line, without realizing it would take over the Stanmore portion of the Bakerloo. Uncoupling on the Metropolitan off-peak. Metropolitan trains only running beyond Baker St in the peaks. Semi-fast trains to/from Uxbridge. When there was no uncoupling on the Met, trains being renumbered what they would be if uncoupling were in practice. Thinking that you could go from either Hammersmith or Amersham to New Cross/New Cross Gate w/out changing trains. Liverpool Street terminators on the peak Met service into the city (ex-Chesham or ex-Amersham). Moorgate terminators on the Met peak City service. An eight car Met, set number 45, terminating in platform 1 at Uxbridge between the peaks M-F. Wooden next-train describers on the up platforms at Uxbridge-branch stations. Thinking that some Bakerloo line trains ran onto the southbound Northern at Elephant & Castle. A mix of red and silver on the Piccadilly. Piccadilly service beyond Rayners Lane only during the peaks M-F and up until mid-afternoon on Saturdays. Barons Court and Wood Green reversers on the Piccadilly.
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Post by ruislip on Jan 1, 2014 19:10:02 GMT
Just wondering
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Post by ruislip on Jan 1, 2014 19:03:01 GMT
I have a 1965 Met WTT that featured 1xx set numbers, with 8 and 9 used in the ones position. The uncoupled trains were 4xx. Since the times were not far off from what they used in the early-mid 70s when I lived in Metroland, I wonder what the corresponding 0xx trains were.
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Post by ruislip on Jan 1, 2014 18:59:09 GMT
What about simply announcing at Finchley Rd : "Next stop will be Harrow on the Hill" ? Or " Next stop will be Rayners Lane!
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Post by ruislip on Dec 31, 2013 3:19:23 GMT
In the 70s ISTR Central Line set numbers being under 100.
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