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Post by stapler on Aug 21, 2016 7:17:08 GMT
Actually, of course, Jack **might** have travelled westbound to Loughton, as in the early part of the night there are trains coming off the "day tube" service from Epping to join the night tube service at Loughton (where, I presume, there is a crew change). Thus Epping, Theydon, and Debden stations are served a bit into the Night Tube regime, even though the night tube doesn't go that far out.
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Post by stapler on Aug 20, 2016 13:01:39 GMT
What's a Westrace card, and is it allowed under equalities legislation?
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Post by stapler on Aug 18, 2016 9:58:43 GMT
Snoggle - it would meet 4tph on the Heathrow branch if you had 2 from Shenfield, 2 from the south-east!
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Post by stapler on Aug 18, 2016 9:57:04 GMT
It was two crowded eastbound standard stock trains; one held outside Leyton at a signal, the other running into its rear.
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Post by stapler on Aug 18, 2016 6:48:02 GMT
Sorry, kingrat, why is 2tph on each branch not enough?
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Post by stapler on Aug 18, 2016 6:46:04 GMT
Report in the Walthamstow Guardian - LU have also installed new cooling: Victoria line passengers will be given a little extra help to keep their cool for the remainder of the summer, thanks to a new air cooling system.
Transport for London has installed a fan system between Walthamstow Central and Blackhorse Road stations, to reduce temperatures in the tunnels by up to three degrees.
The new equipment was fitted after Walthamstow Central was identified as one of the warmest stations on the Victoria line.
The system draws in fresh air from the street through coils filled with flowing, chilled water, producing cold air.
The chilled air is then sent into a mid-tunnel shaft by the cooling fan, which is capable of moving the equivalent of 33 double-decker buses full of cold air every minute.
Mark Evers, Director of Customer Strategy for London Underground, said: “We understand that it can get uncomfortable for customers during the summer months, which is why we are always looking for new ways to help customers beat the heat.
“Projects like the installation of this fan system demonstrates how we are using innovation to develop new ways to cool the Tube and make customers' journeys better.”
Similar cooling systems were installed at Oxford Circus and Green Park
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Post by stapler on Aug 17, 2016 11:22:02 GMT
Even when he's not at Walthamstow Central!
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Post by stapler on Aug 17, 2016 11:17:53 GMT
"Lea Valley lines", meaning Chingford and Enfield is very misleading. Let's avoid Lea valley, please!
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Post by stapler on Aug 17, 2016 10:27:21 GMT
Good that they are keeping and refurbing what is left of the 1872 building (see their heritage statement)
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Post by stapler on Aug 17, 2016 10:18:14 GMT
It doesn't seem particularly smart not to plan for any through Shenfield-Heathrow trains. Surly this will just mean many more people having to change at the busy Crossrail stations in Central London?
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Post by stapler on Aug 16, 2016 20:51:37 GMT
Anyone know if AGA will alter their pattern of stopping west of Shenfield? Will we perhaps lose the the enigmatic notice at the London end of the main line platforms and Shenfield which reads "Romford?"...?
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Post by stapler on Aug 16, 2016 6:29:33 GMT
I saw from the BBC London news report on the ghost running days last night that night tube staff are getting training to deal with "spillages". For the etymologically challenged, this is LU-management-speak for "piles of vomit". There seemed to be photo-ops at Leyton and other Central line places. Everything went like clockwork, according to the report. But then of course, there were no passengers!
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Post by stapler on Aug 15, 2016 15:59:14 GMT
H&I--Seem to remember it was, with portable lattice barriers, perhaps?
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Post by stapler on Aug 15, 2016 13:03:54 GMT
At the risk of mods' annoyance re thread drift,what Meakin and Tinsley were doing was surely winked at by local management. After all, didn't the Gretna station staff telegraph "the boy will get a ride today?". It was probably the one day in ten thousand that something went wrong. Then of course CR senior management got all pious. Always easy to blame the shiftless workers (or even the on-shift workers...)
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Post by stapler on Aug 15, 2016 7:02:07 GMT
Although I live a mile from the Central Line,Loughton, if the wind is in the right direction, and the windows are open, I can hear the trains, and I certainly heard them in the small hours when I was dozing this weekend. Just something I don't expect. If I hear a train, then it's past 5am, like flights into LHR, which seem to take the north-eastern approach from about 6.... When a child, I lived right opposite the Chingford line, and could sleep through N7s, and J15s with unbraked wagons!
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Post by stapler on Aug 14, 2016 10:37:19 GMT
Hobbayne, you may even get drunken punters on the platform at North Acton so disorientates they'd be thinking an Epping train will be along shortly. The taxi firms at these places will be doing roaring business.
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Post by stapler on Aug 13, 2016 20:56:07 GMT
It should be interesting at Buckhurst Hill and Loughton, where 70% of the street lights are switched off at 0100
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Post by stapler on Aug 13, 2016 8:40:13 GMT
There is generally space for quadrupling between Coppermill and Broxbourne junctions. A major constraint is level crossings, which would have to be eliminated. I do not recollect the main route to and from Cambridge being other than straight down the Lea Valley line, Coppermill Jc, Clapton Jc and into LV via Hackney Downs and the fast lines. There were occasional diversions of course. The Lea Valley line was not electrified for some 8-9 years after Chingford. I used to use Angel Rd station a bit; it was more or less still a wayside country station. There was disused and semi-lifted track, the remnants of goods loops and gasworks everywhere, all covered in weeds and detritus. The trackbed of the original Enfield line was still intact. Think I'm right in saying there was no passenger service between Stratford and Coppermill Jc at all for a few years after Lea Bridge closed in 1985
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WTT69
Aug 10, 2016 16:02:57 GMT
Post by stapler on Aug 10, 2016 16:02:57 GMT
Official explanation as below. Corresponding reduction on the loop outer rail
We will be introducing a new timetable on the Central line from Sunday 7th August 2016 as part of the modernisation of the Tube. The new timetable will provide a higher frequency of service for thousands of Central line customers on one of the busiest stretches of the line. We have had to make this change because we need to undertake maintenance to the train fleet to improve reliability. However, this means there will be fewer trains out on the line. The new timetable ensures that we minimise the impact of this work and can still meet the demand of our customers across the whole line The new timetable means that more trains will depart at Epping and Loughton providing more trains for thousands of Central line customers in the morning peak. The number of through-trains from Hainault into Central London will reduce, terminating at Woodford instead, resulting in customers having to change there to continue their journey. These trains will now reverse north up the Epping branch, rather than south through to central London, and will do earlier - 5.26, 5.40 and 5.48 times departing Grange Hill. This change is being made as there are approximately ten times more passengers using the Epping branch compared to Grange Hill, Chigwell and Roding Valley stations. Under the new timetable through-services to central London remain at 06:53, 07:16 and 08:03 (timed at Grange Hill), in addition to the three trains per hour shuttle service to/from Woodford. Please note also that In the PM peak northbound, there will be three fewer trains per hour (tph) going to Debden (12tph down from 15tph), as they will now terminate at the station before (Loughton). Service frequency to Theydon Bois & Debden remains the same. We are advising customers that use Grange Hill, Chigwell, Roding Valley and Debden stations to check their journeys before they travel, so they are aware of the new timetable. The new timetable and key changes are summarised below for your information. If you have any questions on this or would like to discuss, please contact me.
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Post by stapler on Aug 7, 2016 12:11:51 GMT
And some at Upper Holloway, I noticed
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Post by stapler on Aug 7, 2016 8:50:02 GMT
He walked past my house one day; really had to take a second look!
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Post by stapler on Aug 6, 2016 16:26:45 GMT
By the way, is that Jeremy Corbyn in the photo?
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Post by stapler on Aug 6, 2016 8:02:37 GMT
Is there **no limit** to the amount of cockup they can put into Wstow C?
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Post by stapler on Aug 4, 2016 20:53:23 GMT
Yes. The best preserved railway near London IMO; long may it thrive
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Post by stapler on Aug 4, 2016 16:27:00 GMT
That's a pity. I'd have thought it might warrant 6tph, but could the Gospel Oak bay cope? And will the journey time be reduced?
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Post by stapler on Aug 4, 2016 15:47:55 GMT
<<One of the problems the UK seems to have is a poorly educated and uninterested low productivity workforce with the result that people from elsewhere are attracted here and have the skills and education that UK employers require.>> What skills and education do you need to be a barista, bartender, or bed-maker?
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Post by stapler on Aug 4, 2016 10:57:55 GMT
Doesn't employment in the CAZ at least partly derive from the availability of labour? And in the case of the hospitality industries, cheap (thus often immigrant) labour?
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Post by stapler on Aug 2, 2016 15:40:12 GMT
It won't relieve the Central at all beyond Stratford; it will probably make it worse. And having struggled to get up to the Central EB platform at only 1600 the other day, there will be mayhem on the interchange platforms and more particularly on the staircases leading to them
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Post by stapler on Aug 2, 2016 15:33:49 GMT
I think TFL are getting too ready to close stations and lines..... Perhaps the displaced canopies could be re-erected on Plats 9 and 10 at Stratford, where shelter is absurdly lacking. Or even 10A, which is worse!
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Post by stapler on Jul 30, 2016 10:41:46 GMT
They were quite common throughout the system. But they were not used as true passimeters
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