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Post by ducatisti on Oct 16, 2008 10:18:19 GMT
Does anyone/where publish past performance figures for the lines? I'm having the old "northern line is rubbish" agrument with someone. So far, their only reasons are that it's crowded. Ideally not LU so they can't claim the figures have been massaged...
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Post by ducatisti on Oct 15, 2008 8:30:30 GMT
www.wired.com/culture/art/multimedia/2008/10/gallery_trains?slide=1&slideView=5Some very nice pics. "Photographer Jim Shaughnessy first turned his lens on trains in 1946 at age 13. Over the following 20 years, he chased trains around New England and Canada, documenting the fall of steam engines and the rise of diesel locomotives — all in gorgeous black and white." Some of the comments say it's an odd format and may not display. Not been a problem for me
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Post by ducatisti on Oct 12, 2008 20:19:16 GMT
nice pics - jealous. Was busy riding round in circles at mallory park and then getting shunted from behind in a van on Sunday on the M1
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Post by ducatisti on Oct 8, 2008 13:04:27 GMT
Today at 11:45am, ducatisti wrote:Well, it's the bank loop (as opposed to the charing X loop) isn't it? I suppose if they had non-station-related names it might help. eg (for the sake of argument) Bank loop = Susan, Charing X loop = Derek, so you have Morden via Susan and Kennington via Derek. You mean like "City" and "West End"? You're no fun any more... ;D Also, are they used these days? Maybe the answer is to squeeze them onto the map somehow. Although in themselves they have the potential confusion-factor for those who don't know about "the city", and would consider the "west end" of london to be somewhere near Ealing.
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Post by ducatisti on Oct 8, 2008 10:45:54 GMT
Well, it's the bank loop (as opposed to the charing X loop) isn't it? I suppose if they had non-station-related names it might help. eg (for the sake of argument) Bank loop = Susan, Charing X loop = Derek, so you have Morden via Susan and Kennington via Derek.
Incicentally, why is the Euston loop called a loop? Looks more like what I would think of as a double-ended siding (compared to, eg the Kennington loop)?
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Post by ducatisti on Oct 8, 2008 8:44:06 GMT
It was working well this morning anyway.
I'm never sure with the displays, but I think "[terminal station] via [loop]" is as good as you are ever going to get without having pages of scrolling text that means the important thing you want to know in a hurry is on the other page
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Post by ducatisti on Oct 8, 2008 8:22:29 GMT
Seconded! It'll also mean your DMI will be more ignored as people tune out all the images etc. They had those screens on the busses in Brum, and frankly I have never been so glad to see vandals
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Post by ducatisti on Oct 7, 2008 7:53:34 GMT
suspended from one of the tootings south, derailment at Morden apparently.
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Post by ducatisti on Oct 2, 2008 12:34:19 GMT
"Max speed 70"? I presume this is when towed? Or do they have a warp-speed button hidden in the cab?
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Post by ducatisti on Oct 1, 2008 7:58:46 GMT
Interestingly enough, one small peice of sanity has prevailed. At 5.30 am the announcements are much quieter.
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Post by ducatisti on Sept 28, 2008 19:21:50 GMT
Just to add my thanks for all who organised. It was great that all those people took the time to be on hand (it's much nicer to talk to the engineer than a PR gonk). In particular the metronet chap who answered all my queries very informatively.
Nice to go for another forum meet, and sorry for drinking phil's beer...
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Post by ducatisti on Sept 28, 2008 19:10:15 GMT
Can I add a couple of points about grab rails? 1) as Drew(?) pointed out, a grab rail along the underside of the DMI at the end of the cars would be a cunning idea 2) I'm still not convinced about the amount of grabbing provision. I would like to see a horizontal bar between the poles. My concern is that everyone will crowd around the poles causing blockages, and in that uneasy phase between "a bit full" and crush loading, there is quite a bit of floor plan that isn't terribly near a handhold.
Thanks to the chaps for organising it, it was most enjoyable and informative (although I suspect we'll be able to spot forum members when the trains go into service playing with the intelligent door strips ;D)
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Post by ducatisti on Sept 26, 2008 12:58:06 GMT
Glyn - freight?
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Post by ducatisti on Sept 26, 2008 11:11:10 GMT
"Kilroy was unexpectedly reversed here"
"if you can read this, you should drop the handle sharp-ish"
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Post by ducatisti on Sept 26, 2008 10:02:51 GMT
From that pic, it looks as if it were made of marzipan...
Hmmm, assuming it *is* sand, when it dries, won't it slump out over the running line?
Nice to see someone doing a neat job though isn't it?
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Post by ducatisti on Sept 26, 2008 10:00:56 GMT
I have now used all four platforms at East Finchley. Got a southbound train terminating there this morning. Yes, I know I need to get out more Apropos of previous comments about not noticing the archer, it's about the one platform where I have seen it without looking for ISWIM
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Post by ducatisti on Sept 23, 2008 20:21:12 GMT
hmmm... I'll have to trust you on that - to read it, it appears I have to let them spam me every day. Oh well...
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Post by ducatisti on Sept 23, 2008 10:03:01 GMT
Oh, not sure it's not the local info rounds, but it did seem to be talking about "crossrail is coming" and had a diagram of the whole route...
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Post by ducatisti on Sept 23, 2008 10:02:08 GMT
In the context of what it'll cost, I doubt that advertising will even dent the surveyor's tea and biscuits budget. Also, I suspect it'll help in terms of sorting out any pre-emptive property blight claims etc Important simply in terms of the fact that is clearly stating that they think it's going ahead and keeping it in the public mind.
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Post by ducatisti on Sept 22, 2008 12:11:59 GMT
Anyone see this this morning? It was half a page I think. I should have perused it in more detail, but the central thrust seemed to be "Crossrail is coming".
Which is a positive sign
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Post by ducatisti on Sept 17, 2008 8:08:01 GMT
mmm, it has to be said, it connects an awful lot of places that really don't seem to need that much connecting from a passenger point of view
Also, in terms of funding, the above comment about the bank might have more impact that the OP may have guessed. There's 4000 less daily passengers for the Jubilee right about now. Any farebox component of funding could well drop
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Post by ducatisti on Sept 17, 2008 8:05:18 GMT
This morning they were in perfect antiphase: "nothern (Northern) line (line) this (this) is(is) a(a) High Barnet (Morden via Bank) train (train)
Ged knows what someone who was relying on the PA would have made of that...
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Post by ducatisti on Sept 16, 2008 20:36:24 GMT
At least at West Finchley they have turned them down a bit, so it's not like Finchley central where they really do cancel each other out if operated at the same time.
Still add a very small amount of information for high levels of annoyance
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Post by ducatisti on Sept 8, 2008 19:53:59 GMT
Getting on at Camden with a very large box (2'6 cubed?), I was impressed to have two gateline staff diving over to help - one did the gate and the other spotted my wallet in my hand and bipped me in (I've not counted the change yet ;D).
So all good
(I did wait until after the rush hour died down a bit) It was a bike petrol tank if anyone's interested. Second hand bike part sellers seem on a mission to over-pack everything I ever get.
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Post by ducatisti on Sept 6, 2008 10:18:48 GMT
I think a large portion of his appeal was that he wasn't going to do stuff (eg the unconsulted western extension to the congestion charge). I have a lot of sympathy for some of Livingstone's early stuff, but he was starting get project-itis. (I still voted for him as better than Boris).
Won't bother me either way. Interested to note the RMT has been quoted as talking abnout safety issues etc. Wonder if they are going to get talked into a corner as being "anti-olympic", there is certainly widespread cynicsm about their talking about safety whenever they strike.
I certainly don't see there's any issue with running for 24hrs in short bursts (although I hope everything will be checked and fettled beforehand.
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Post by ducatisti on Sept 1, 2008 15:07:38 GMT
Oh - forgot to mention, went to the Groundle Glen railway when racing was called off (it's the one I have to tick off). It was shut as they don't open on weekdays, but the man pottering round the ticket office told me to ask in the shed for a look round, and the youth frying bacon on a trangia broke off this to give me a guided tour of carriage and engine sheds. (OK, neither of them very big, but still...) More reasons to move to the three-legged land...
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Post by ducatisti on Sept 1, 2008 8:46:46 GMT
Chris M: ooh ta! As for why, I suspect the Island probably did it because everybody else doesn't...
mrfs: I may take you up on that. I can see how it works, it's the why that bugs me...
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Post by ducatisti on Aug 31, 2008 19:43:08 GMT
Just back from keeping on an eye on loonies rattling around the mountain circuit (or marshalling the Manx if you prefer). Couple of pics from my day off up the Manx Electric Railway and the Snaefel, including an operating hazard not normally faced by LT - international motorsport. Also an odd turnout, any ideas? www.flickr.com/gp/27565507@N06/1D2Kv3
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Post by ducatisti on Aug 21, 2008 21:38:07 GMT
tee-hee! I wonder if that's the delay - they are still tugging it round Sierre Leone right now...
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Post by ducatisti on Aug 19, 2008 21:28:11 GMT
Woolwhich and Reading beds of sand and gravel, some shifty sandstone, and a few bomb craters that aren't properly filled in and empty into tunnels when you cut the bottom of the cone
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