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Post by wimblephil on Nov 27, 2014 8:19:14 GMT
Haha! Good riddance! Might as well take a stab at the Bakerloo whilst your at it. That one one gives me a headache! Stock is too old! Needs a bloody good refurb!
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Post by wimblephil on Nov 27, 2014 5:49:44 GMT
Yeah, I hate the Jubilee DVA. The awful intonation of the afore mentioned being one of the main factors; the 02 sounding very off, and with the 'Change for London Overground' mentions, it's said in such a way that you expect it to be followed by a 'Services to X'. The way it is at the moment makes it sound like it's just been cut dead. It's awful.
The Willesden & Neasden pronunciations are granted amusing as a first and second time tourist, but once a regular traveller, the novelty soon wares off! It's just plain annoying.
The male announcements are just unkind! The volume feels higher and you're effectively been shouted at rather scornfully. I don't like them anyhow!
Going off on a tangent, but there's much I don't like about the Jubilee line; the horrible array of colours within the cars and just the sheer awfulness of them, the whirring sound the train makes each time upon moving from still (music for some, but it just hurts my ears!), the noise of rushing through the tunnels, particularly on the extension (you really have to SHOUT just to have a conversation with the person next to you). It's just. Eugh.
Not my favourite line by a long shot. I'm just glad it's not my local! I don't think I could cope...!
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Post by wimblephil on Nov 26, 2014 19:56:28 GMT
Ha. Yeah, but technically TfL refer to them as cars right?
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Post by wimblephil on Nov 26, 2014 17:12:39 GMT
Please ensure you are travelling in the correct part of the train. [Juile Berry's voice] This is coach number x of 5. That's quite an intriguing concept for walk-through carriages! If you were sat by the join, surely you would half hear both? e.g. 'This is coach number thre-our of five' :S Plus should't they really be referred to as 'cars'...
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Post by wimblephil on Nov 26, 2014 12:34:54 GMT
There are quite a few ECS trips from Wimbledon Depot to Waterloo via East Putney, which probably doubles up as route learners. The 0042 Waterloo to Strawberry Hill used (still is?) to be booked to run via East Putney Indeed, in my experience the last two or three trains from Waterloo tend to be booked via East Putney. I've only ever gone the other way during service disruptions, (often sadly due to jumpers at Earlsfield), and didn't realise the bays could be used by SWT.
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Post by wimblephil on Nov 24, 2014 9:06:35 GMT
I often taken the opportunity to glance at the displays whilst on a train, and it really does feel like 9 times out of 10 they are incorrect! The mentality they always try to push down the branch is 'take the first train and change at Earl's Court if necessary'...!
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Post by wimblephil on Nov 23, 2014 22:31:03 GMT
Looks like there's no Trams from Wimbledon Station for three months! I guess that's in order to sort the second platform. That will inconvenience a lot of people I'm sure!
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Post by wimblephil on Nov 23, 2014 7:26:26 GMT
I caught the 07:22 service, since I was up with not much else to do and I've always wanted to see an LO train at Battersea Park!
I was the only one on board! I suspect most of the Battersea Park starters run empty to Wandsworth Road!
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Post by wimblephil on Nov 23, 2014 7:04:31 GMT
With engineering works in the Surbiton area today, and the main lines closed, I just caught the second of two early morning SWT services running to Waterloo from Wimbledon Platform 4 via East Putney. I presume it to be a fairly rare thing so took a piccy! Hopefully this works correctly as I opened my Flickr account specifically to share it! Photo Link
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Post by wimblephil on Nov 20, 2014 8:44:28 GMT
I've used my contactless bank card to pay for a couple of Journeys now on the Tube/National Rail. I'm not sure quite how the technology works, but one thing that entered my mind was that, if a ticket inspector was to come round, and you present your bank card to their device, would it be able to show them that you had indeed touched in and made payment for your journey?
Also I've noticed that it takes a second or two longer for the bank card to register on the gate lines than it does Oyster, which has made me realise how fast I usually zip through as I have to pause for a little to avoid bumping into the barrier! It can also cause a chain reaction behind, so I think most commuters with Oyster must be used to going through quite fast!
Has anyone made the full switch yet, and if so have you found it any more/less beneficial?
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Post by wimblephil on Nov 19, 2014 17:38:18 GMT
Ah OK. Good point!
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Post by wimblephil on Nov 19, 2014 17:25:02 GMT
This morning about 7am at Earls Court I saw and Edgware Road bound S-Stock in platform 1, which means it must have come via Hammersmith, no? Maybe there's a connection there somewhere!?
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Post by wimblephil on Nov 15, 2014 22:25:35 GMT
What zone would you put Aldwych in if you wanted it to cover its costs? Topologically there is no reason it had to be Zone 1! I don't get this! How could it not be in Zone 1!? Unless Holborn was re-zoned with it, there would be no cost benefit for using it! Unless that's your point? But if it cost people more to use, then I'm sure it would have been very little used anyway!
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Post by wimblephil on Nov 14, 2014 12:09:26 GMT
What gets me is how a lot of people will look at you like your scum if your stood by the door don't hold it for someone that's running for it as it's closing. And forget trying to explain how it can be worse in the long run! Even just to friends; 'oh it's only a couple of seconds, it can't impact the service'... Do you ever use a lift? Apples & Oranges
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Post by wimblephil on Nov 14, 2014 8:55:15 GMT
What gets me is how a lot of people will look at you like your scum if your stood by the door don't hold it for someone that's running for it as it's closing. And forget trying to explain how it can be worse in the long run! Even just to friends; 'oh it's only a couple of seconds, it can't impact the service'...
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Post by wimblephil on Nov 14, 2014 0:15:32 GMT
As a border station its already in Zone 1 if heading north. Zone 2 is for people south of the station. . There are lots of people who commute to Vauxhall SWT who would be very cross if it was not (partly) in Zone 2 It would be like putting South Wimbledon firmly in Zone 4! Stations on zone borders are literally the best of both worlds and only benefit us, the paying people! There should be more of them not less!!
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Post by wimblephil on Nov 13, 2014 3:17:37 GMT
it doesn't strike me as a station with lots of TOCs like some. Given that many SWT trains don't call and most Southern trains do, no one operator has an overwhelming presence at CJ. I think I would have to disagree with this, given that SWT do manage the station, it's (for want of a better word) 'branded' in their style with all their colours, signage etc. their services have a great presence on both sides of the 'split' (1-6 & 7-17) and they have a depot which fills that split, I think they do have a greater presence overall. As a regular Southern commuter from the south coast before moving to London, I could see CJ was not a Southern station... I think what we probably could agree though is that no one could mistake it as a London Overground station!
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Post by wimblephil on Nov 13, 2014 2:59:23 GMT
The old Cs similarly had a system for closing all but one set of doors in each car at termini during the winter. I think the D-Stock does too...?
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Post by wimblephil on Nov 12, 2014 13:17:24 GMT
An interesting read for those of us that care and weren't aware of the changes ahead! Thanks for posting!!
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Post by wimblephil on Oct 29, 2014 20:30:48 GMT
I caught the S7 the other day. All the inside advertising boards are filled with War Poems.
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Post by wimblephil on Oct 28, 2014 5:21:22 GMT
I really can't see why it matters so much, or why they bother giving any dates at all. It's not as if the existing trains are inconveniencing anybody (which is, after all what passengers pay for - a proper service) and if the S Stock is a little late into service it means it'll last a little longer down the line so no money has been wasted. The S will turn up in the fullness of time when they're good and ready. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Indeed. Sent from my computer using keyboard Sorry, I know it's not constructive at all to this thread, but that did make me giggle!
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Post by wimblephil on Oct 27, 2014 7:18:26 GMT
Trams would then be followed by buses. Then river services. There has to be a limit. Here, here. Exactly why this forum sticks to Railways, if it runs on roads it's not for us. But Trams do run on Rails... I personally feel the Tram is closer to a light rail system than it is a bus, due it it's restriction to run on a particular route network, unlike buses which can roam anywhere. But sadly that is not the consensus of the forum, so they remain off-topic!
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Post by wimblephil on Oct 6, 2014 1:52:32 GMT
The same happens at Leytonstone westbound. Particularly annoying is where one train is advertised as leaving first, leaves first, and then waits outside the station for the following train (or on one occasion the following two trains) to pass it.
And at Earls Court where 2 Wimbledon trains can be dispatched simultaneously, but it always seems to be the one I'm not on that overtakes and gets the road into West Brompton.
I always found it to be the train in platform 4 would depart ahead of the one in platform 3, but then be held for the platform 3 departer to continue round it. The platform 4 departer was always a C-Stock and the platform 3 a D. I always figured it was either something to do with the track layout/signaling, or the fact that the D-Stock was longer, so better able to cope with the pax numbers of those bording ahead of the C. Of course, I was just making up reasons, but it helped justify it in my head whenever I'd been on the C that was held for the D to go round! Ha. It could of course just have been coincidence that it always happend like that. I've not yet experienced an S and a D (or indeed 2xD's) being dispatched simultainioisly to Wimbledon...
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Post by wimblephil on Sept 5, 2014 5:13:09 GMT
Personally, I dislike the older signs, as they just look dated. Though they do work for the Bakerloo, it has that very old, dark, dingy, rickty, old, old feel to it!!!
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Post by wimblephil on Sept 2, 2014 15:13:05 GMT
I think that it is train 121, which leaves Wimbledon at 0721 going to barking Cool, thanks for that. Shift dependant, that would actually be the train I would need to get at some point anyway, so I could end up on it by happy accident, rather than needing to manipulate the situation to make it so! Cheers!
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Post by wimblephil on Sept 2, 2014 7:14:33 GMT
Have any S7 stock trains started passenger service for Upminster yet or are they still in 'trial mode' for Ealing Broadway / Richmond to High Street Kensington / Barking or are being tested? One train is now available to run from Ealing Common depot in the peak-hours only, covering Ealing Broadway, Tower Hill bay, Wimbledon and Barking. Is this a scheduled service? If so would you know the timings? I'd love to catch a Wimbledon/City S7 service when possible!
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Post by wimblephil on Sept 1, 2014 18:14:24 GMT
Not necessarily - your District driver could have driven another train to South Ken. What would happen to that train then? Well, you've got a Circle driver just arrived - he could take it over and drive it round to ERd and beyond. (of course the swap could happen wherever on the south side of the Circle the two trains happen to meet, South Ken is the easiest if the second rain is to go anticlockwise, although Mansion House and Tower Hill are possibilities if the second train is reversing there!) That's quite good thinking. Still not really a very good idea to run Wimbledon - Gunnersbury, though, I think Nah, probs not. Might as well continue to Richmond...
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Post by wimblephil on Sept 1, 2014 16:41:03 GMT
Lol. Yeah. I guess it's not impossible...
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Post by wimblephil on Aug 31, 2014 8:46:50 GMT
Ahh I see. Thought it may be something like that, but hoped for something more interesting! Ha. Still nice to see a different destination displayed, even though I'm sure it may breifly confuse the odd traveller!
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Post by wimblephil on Aug 31, 2014 8:29:28 GMT
I've twice now seen S-Stock at Wimbledon with a Gunnersbury destination displayed.
Has the destination simply been selected by accident on both occasions (assuming it may be right next to Edgware Road?), or is there actually a running to there reversing at Earls Court? (Though I would assume if this were to be the case, it would reverse out of service, before continuing the leg to Gunnersbury?)
Or is there any other reason...!?
Sorry if it's a stupid question, and logically I would assume it to be the first option, but I'm just curious!
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