|
Post by stapler on Jul 7, 2022 7:27:49 GMT
Thanks, QM - the slight disparity with the 100 year old figure for Stratford-Maryland no doubt being the 1940s eastward lurch of the platforms 6-7-8 under New Works.
|
|
|
Post by stapler on Jul 6, 2022 15:29:04 GMT
Don't know precise distances but I'd imagine Stratford to Maryland is among the shortest. Stratford Central Junction box (London end of present platform 10A) to Maryland Point Junction box (London end of present Maryland station) was 0.494 miles temp WW1, if that helps.
|
|
|
Post by stapler on Jul 5, 2022 8:30:45 GMT
Also, the NW Golf course is in Rayley Lane, hard against the A414 North Weald by-pass, so in the antipodes of North Weald from the station, and unwalkable for commuting.
|
|
|
Post by stapler on Jul 5, 2022 7:54:10 GMT
The distance between Epping and North Weald stations by rail is/was 2.932 miles, so the difference in journey time between 25 and 40mph would be hardly crucial.....
|
|
|
Post by stapler on Jul 4, 2022 15:32:22 GMT
The planning authority are Epping Forest DC; the transport authority Essex CC. EFDC do not have powers to impose a Community Infrastructure Levy, so a s.106 agreement would necessitate the 106 moneys being essential in the vicinity of the proposed development in order to make the planning consent acceptable...
|
|
|
Post by stapler on Jul 4, 2022 12:42:12 GMT
I think you have it -- thank you. There was no train in Woodford bay, but there were two in the sidings....
|
|
|
Post by stapler on Jul 4, 2022 6:49:34 GMT
Not far according to the Epping Ongar Railway website which says there's "just 100 metres between the end of our running line and the end of the Central Line" and "the buffer stops can be seen at the boundary". EOR has plans to build a new platform at "Epping Glade" although no suggestion of where funding would come from. TfL are certainly unlikely to want to fund anything outside Greater London and I doubt if Epping Forest council has any spare cash lying around htt It wouldn't be Epping Forest DC. It would be Essex County Council, who are the transport authority. And they are definitely skint, with a £10m funding gap looming
|
|
|
Post by stapler on Jul 2, 2022 12:06:31 GMT
Harlow is too far out for tube stock on a metro service - even Epping is pushing it. If Harlow is going to be served by a TfL service it should be a new, mainline gauge express service. Possibly something like Harlow-Epping-Loughton-Woodford-Whipps Cross-Walthamstow-Finsbury Park-Camden-King's Cross-Clerkenwell-Farringdon-Chancery Lane-Temple-Waterloo-Walworth-Camberwell-Dulwich-Crystal Palace-Croydon What's the budget?
|
|
|
Post by stapler on Jul 2, 2022 6:50:01 GMT
I can’t see the Central Line being extended back to Ongar if that’s what you are asking? Nor do I. It's just that the Central Line at Ongar till 1994 always suffered from lack of custom (green belt restrictions on housing). Now Epping Forest DC are soaking North Weald and Epping with masses of the stuff!
|
|
|
Post by stapler on Jul 1, 2022 21:14:38 GMT
There is a planning application actually in for a mega-development on the site of the former North Weald Golf course, with a private park and ride to and from Epping station. A thousand houses are already planned at North Weald itself, and 500 at "Epping South" by the M25. LU have a huge car park - is it 300 spaces? at Epping, and the aspiration to cash in by a big residential development.. The bus interchange outside Epping station is cramped and downright hazardous. A former Epping councillor advocated conversion of the section of the EOR in cutting north of Epping into a multi-layer car park, by compulsory purchase if necessary. Epping Forest DC have polished their green-gold halo (!) by the current construction of a multi-storey car park on the west side of the High Rd. With the credentials of the EOR as a very good heritage railway growing by the year--- where does all this point to for the future of the Central Line's northern terminus?
|
|
|
Post by stapler on Jul 1, 2022 20:58:27 GMT
Is it perhaps that, unusually, a Woodford bay terminator was the train whose tail I saw, and the T/op had merely made a mistake in setting the rear DMI? Or is there a lunchtime terminator now scheduled? (I have lost my link to the current WTT in an extended absence from the Central Line.)
|
|
|
Post by stapler on Jun 30, 2022 13:34:07 GMT
At lunchtime today, viewed the tail end of an Epping-labelled train departing the EB. (Grrrr!). Glanced up at the describer to see 1 reading unusually "South Woodford", almost immediately replaced by "Via Newbury Park", which scrolled to Hainault. What was happening here?
|
|
|
Post by stapler on Jun 29, 2022 20:39:37 GMT
As a child I can remember the majority of Central line trains from West Ruislip reversing at Loughton with only a 3tph service between there and Epping, bringing that back would result in a lower demand for trains (it's just shy of 18 minutes running time there and back, excluding dwell time at Epping). Loughton was traditionally the limit of the more intensive service. But that was before Epping became the drive-to station for cheap fares for the whole of Essex and beyond (as you could tell when there were still printed licence discs with the post office stamp of issue on). Reducing Loughton to Epping to 3tph would nowadays just not be practicable. Someone driving half an hour from Epping can save £2000pa on GA costs, if s/he can find anywhere to park. Quote modified - Tom
|
|
|
Post by stapler on Jun 29, 2022 17:27:14 GMT
But of course the Met area went out well beyond its present extent; it was any parish any part of which was within 15 miles of Charing+, so included places like Waltham Abbey, Loughton, Ewell, and Thames Ditton, now for 22 years firmly in the shire counties. And as for the LPTB area.... West Ham and East Ham, though of course notionally in geographic Essex, were independent county boroughs - West since 1888 and East since 1915- and neither's arms appear in the splendidly third-reichy 1938 county hall at Chelmsford...
|
|
|
Post by stapler on Jun 29, 2022 16:35:21 GMT
Do gateline staff routinely report eg a gate vaulter to Rev?
|
|
|
Post by stapler on Jun 29, 2022 16:31:51 GMT
Yes, you definitely don't mean Loughton. It's about the least disabled friendly station in the suburbs, and would very expensive to adapt. Lifts from Great Eastern Path?
|
|
|
Post by stapler on Feb 14, 2021 21:39:04 GMT
The summer of 1961 is the last time I can record a J15-hauled goods on the line...
|
|
|
Post by stapler on Feb 14, 2021 8:29:18 GMT
I'll check my sources, but I think steam was still being used on the goods trains in 60 and 61, usually hauled by tripcock fitted J15s. Certainly till 1970, the early DMUs operating the Loughton to Liverpool St main station service were sharing the track with the automatic trains, as the LT notices called them.
|
|
|
Post by stapler on Feb 8, 2021 8:29:35 GMT
Definitely Mile End. When the Central Line platforms out of shot) were opened post WW2, one of the LPTB's boasts was that fluorescent lighting had been installed throughout Mile End station. The same fitments were probably there when SPS took his pics in the 70s (Thank you SPS..they are very evocative) Mile End got very tatty before its green and white refurb. T was an elegance about both the trains and the stations back then, in design details like the lampshade, the direction boards and signwriting, the train red and gold lettering, all later swept away..
|
|
|
Post by stapler on Jan 31, 2021 8:12:07 GMT
No senior member of TFL is likely to live near Wanstead. No-one there since James Holden! Let alone Bethnal Green. Aren't they all West London based?
|
|
|
Post by stapler on Jan 29, 2021 8:23:54 GMT
1.Should an obese person be charged more to travel than a beanpole? 2. Cost per unit 15p? Really that's what I pay at home. Surely LU get a discount for quantity? 3. What about feedback from regenerative braking?
|
|
|
Post by stapler on Jan 26, 2021 8:52:37 GMT
Weren't sometimes projected embankments formed out of aspiration, yes, but also as spoil dumps to take the material excavated from further down the line? The two never-used embankments which would have forme linking spurs to and from the T&H withe the Enfield Town line might be so? But I don't know the GC/MDR area.
|
|
|
Post by stapler on Jan 18, 2021 13:49:06 GMT
Oh, thank you. Is an inverter kind of a rectifier back-to-front? BTW, I gather the output from West Ham "A" power station, built by the County Borough to feed its tramways, was 2-phase .How did it get changed to 3-phase to power the trolleybuses? Mods - sorry to digress. I should obviously have paid more attention in O Level physics!
|
|
|
Post by stapler on Jan 18, 2021 8:41:09 GMT
If only TFL had suffered a farebox reduction of only 10% ("decimated")........
|
|
|
Post by stapler on Jan 18, 2021 8:37:18 GMT
Does anyone have an update on this project please? Would’ve expected to see some of these out by now even with the delays. Two units are at Bombardier Derby, one is expected back in London this month after being fitted with AC motors. These will then undertake dynamic testing Two units are at Ruislip undergoing data transmission installation, a test run was carried out a few days ago and all was successful. Units remain in Acton Works undergoing trial fitment of the LED lighting and wheelchair spaces. The new workshop to do the full refurbishment is a few months from completion in Acton Works, so hopefully a start can be made mid-year. For a non-tecchie: so the supply is taken from the Grid in AC. It goes through the substations and is rectified. It then is fed to the conductor rails as DC, and for the stock when fitted with new motors, taken through a rectifier mounted under the cars?
|
|
|
Post by stapler on Jan 17, 2021 22:01:58 GMT
In the trade, they are called "slave dials"....
|
|
|
Post by stapler on Jan 17, 2021 21:59:28 GMT
Thank you! For reasons which I think will be understood by everyone, I've not been on the trains for several months - so have not been able took out for the updated route maps. I wonder what passengers think about all this? As an aside, something that might affect the shuttle service is the possibility of a road user entry fee to enter the Greater London area as defined by local govt. boundaries. The significance of this to the shuttle service is that part of its route acts as the London / Essex boundary and it *might* be that the new road user fee (if enacted) will increase passenger numbers at stations such as Chigwell and Roding Valley. (ie: people who do not want to pay a new fee to make an otherwise short local journey by road). There is no such time as 24:00 as on the modified diagram. The next minute on timetables is 00:01. The use of midnight would have been preferable or 23:59. Road charging to enter Greater London near Chigwell? Impossible. So many roads are cross-border, you couldn't do it.Current proposals are the North Circular, aren't they? There is also a proposal for charging to enter the Epping Forest Special Area of Conservation, as emissions are damaging it. We are back to the era of Turnpike Trusts,I fear...
|
|
|
Post by stapler on Jan 5, 2021 21:55:10 GMT
What did they do with the vulpine passenger at Upminster depot?
|
|
|
Post by stapler on Jan 1, 2021 22:07:48 GMT
Woodford is and always has been a supremely awful station at which to curtail/turn back trains.In these cases. so as not to overload the footbridge, passengers were commonly tipped out at South Woodford, as I remember one example in a blizzard. Another rare move which happened just once or twice in 28 years was an Epping or Loughton being run via the loop, and reversed at Woodford over the crossover to Loughton.
|
|
|
Post by stapler on Dec 25, 2020 22:14:23 GMT
"As for decrepit trains, the 62 stock were around the same age as the 92’s are now..." And not held together with adhesive tape What made the 62TS look decrepit more than anything was the graffiti, and where staff had valiantly tried to remove it, thus etching the aluminium. Agreed it was busy, and falling usage was reflected in reductions of tyhe number of TPH, especially at the extremities.
|
|