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Post by ducatisti on Dec 10, 2018 9:58:53 GMT
Gosh - sounds an excellent day out. I'm afraid I was watching the Gruffalo's Child instead. (at least the theatre was on the site of trolleybus destination).
Was Penderel's oak full of other internet groups? I have been to Christmas drinks there with every internet group I am involved with...
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Post by ducatisti on Dec 10, 2018 9:52:23 GMT
what else did you think "problems with the track" are? (the problem being it's been eaten by the Ravenous Bug-Blatter Beast of Traal...)
The irony is that at one point in my career, I worked at Millbank Tower but got off the train at Vauxhall and walked, thus avoiding the tube in general and aliens in particular...
What flummoxed me on that particular day was that I got on at VXH, and they said "we are going to go station to station", and then the information changed at Pimlico. If there'd been tubes going the other way, I'd have gone back and diverted onto the northern at Stockwell.
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Post by ducatisti on Dec 10, 2018 9:44:09 GMT
why is not an appropriate place for art?
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Post by ducatisti on Dec 7, 2018 10:59:47 GMT
They are near Pimlico station, but the problem with Pimlico station is that it doesn't really have an above-ground location that could have a clump of bus-stops near it. Those bus stops are certainly the nearest and intended to serve Pimlico station, but like a lot of bus infrastructure, is only easy if you know about it. Also those two busses are not very good as strategic services: 360 goes south or up to Victoria C10 goes east or to Victoria. Victoria is only useful for the district/central line and is the third circle of hell when any of the tube lines serving it hiccup.
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Post by ducatisti on Dec 7, 2018 9:45:54 GMT
well, there are busses in Pimlico, but not at Pimlico station. I eventually found an 88 bus stop, down a side street... Which took me to Picadilly circus, but quick it was not...
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Post by ducatisti on Dec 6, 2018 14:23:44 GMT
they are getting very badly hit at the moment. Real shame to see the old work-horses in this state.
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Post by ducatisti on Dec 6, 2018 14:22:42 GMT
hmmmm… I reckon I'd still have been better sitting it out at Pimlico...
Thank you for the helpful response.
It doesn't half make you realise how nifty the line is when you see what happens if it falls over...
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Post by ducatisti on Dec 6, 2018 12:40:52 GMT
hello
can anyone tell me when this suspension was lifted?
I only ask as I got on a train at Vauxhall, took the announcers advice to try overground at Pimlico, and finally got to Finsbury Park by Piccadilly to see a vic line train swan in on the other platform at about 8.10
Pimlico's a bit of a transport blackhole when the Vic is down isn't it?
Next time, I'm not leaving the station unless the train is on fire or eaten by aliens...
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Post by ducatisti on Dec 6, 2018 12:36:34 GMT
Saw one in Hornsey Depot this am - until now they seem to have been sitting in the sidings across the way. What was quite interesting was the destination display on the side said King's Lynn... that would be a bit of an extension for Moorgate services. JOOI, does anyone know why they didn't put the yellow front on them (seeing as the mainline ones have the same marker lights and have kept the yellow). The class 717 use the same database as the 700s to keep things simple (as its GTR's not Siemens). The reason the 700s have the yellow is the rule requiring that was in force when they were designed. The 717s are designed afterwards. Thank you for the clear and helpful answers. Fascinating re the design, I assumed they were developed simultaneously.
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Post by ducatisti on Dec 3, 2018 9:40:03 GMT
Totteridge and Whetstone for C?
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Post by ducatisti on Nov 27, 2018 17:01:52 GMT
which is sort of my point - what LU won't want is for there to be a uniform position of "fence off all platform edges that are not in use"
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Post by ducatisti on Nov 27, 2018 11:03:09 GMT
..Does anyone know why they didn't put the yellow front on them (seeing as the mainline ones have the same marker lights and have kept the yellow). I suppose it's the design choice of GN, if I'm not mistaken the headlights meet the requirements for stock without yellow ends. Agreed, I'm just wondering if there is any reasoning behind decision.
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Post by ducatisti on Nov 27, 2018 11:02:04 GMT
indeed - but there are also ones that haven't. There are plenty of bays that have been filled in too. From a pure H&S logic point of view, they all should be. From a not-spending-money/making-a-rod-for-your-own-back point of view, I can see why you wouldn't want to
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Post by ducatisti on Nov 26, 2018 17:58:43 GMT
I wonder if it's to do with health and safety. At the moment, it's a platform. Platforms are an accepted risk. Once you start fencing off ordinary platforms, even temporarily, where does it end?
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Post by ducatisti on Nov 26, 2018 17:45:26 GMT
would there be much benefit in altering that? Assuming they are geared for national-rail speeds they won't get much chance to accelerate much beyond that in the short gaps between stations.
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Post by ducatisti on Nov 26, 2018 10:03:17 GMT
Saw one in Hornsey Depot this am - until now they seem to have been sitting in the sidings across the way.
What was quite interesting was the destination display on the side said King's Lynn... that would be a bit of an extension for Moorgate services.
JOOI, does anyone know why they didn't put the yellow front on them (seeing as the mainline ones have the same marker lights and have kept the yellow).
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Post by ducatisti on Nov 19, 2018 14:38:05 GMT
presumably you would at least either know that your lodgings are Mrs Terrible's boarding house (nearest station is Brockley South which goes to London Bridge) or that you are off to the Dog and Hammer (nearest tube station [ ], on the [line]). What you need is the bit in the middle - so if you knew how you were going in, but not how you were going out, you'd take the Z1+the north, but if you knew where you were going to, but not how to get there, you'd take Z1+South
(and possibly some better lodgings...)
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Post by ducatisti on Nov 19, 2018 12:30:58 GMT
the dangers of replying to earlier posts... I hadn't seen the Shadwell post.
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Post by ducatisti on Nov 19, 2018 12:28:33 GMT
in view of the subject matter, 4bph perhaps?
That would end up being the London Connections map wouldn't it? (ie with all the southern NR stuff on it).
Maybe the answer is to do a north/south split with zone one and only key portals beyond - after all, even if you are trying to go from say Morden to Osterly, you are likely to know one end or the other, and need the detail either in the squiggly bits where you change, or at the far end.
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Post by ducatisti on Nov 19, 2018 10:13:04 GMT
I think post-oyster, all modes are seen as pretty much all of a muchness for intra-London travel (Which is a good thing IMO). Could you do it by frequency of use for journeys within London? (although what would happen if on of the tube lines was in danger of being voted off...)
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Post by ducatisti on Nov 19, 2018 10:10:24 GMT
The server that hosts the quiz is currently offline for an upgrade that appears to be taking longer than planned. This means the quiz is not available and I wont be able to upload tomorrow's quiz until it returns (which may or may not be before I go to bed - I don't have any information). Sorry for any inconvenience, but it's out of my control. You don't know when you are going to bed? Re stations beginning with sh - Shoeburyness? is B Euston?
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Post by ducatisti on Nov 19, 2018 9:21:25 GMT
A cheeky punt on Goodge Street for B Charing Cross for C
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Post by ducatisti on Nov 5, 2018 14:13:46 GMT
I'm with Rincewind on this (not just because he's a mod...) It's an old tatty building of a sort we have lots of well-looked after ones. It's being demolished for new transport infrastructure and because the old building has been rendered irrelevant by a better arrangement (ie proper integration with the mainline station).
It wasn't the first building on that site, and it won't be the last. When it was built it was unwanted (by some) progress.
the Bree Louise was a sad loss, mind, but not for the building,
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Post by ducatisti on Sept 4, 2018 8:28:18 GMT
I don't know what is more astonishing the passenger filming that did not bother to alert the driver, or the people sat in the carriage that haven't even noticed it. The next station is West Hampstead change for National rail services. Doors are open on the left hand side. Aren't all the alarms by the doors? wouldn't the passenger be putting themselves in considerable danger by trying to do that?
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Post by ducatisti on Jul 25, 2018 8:28:08 GMT
Thanks Golden Arrow - that was most informative. It really is noticeable how fast the vic line can shift passengers - mainly when it slightly stumbles as you can see how fast they build up when not being shipped out. Interesting what you say about narrow platforms, I have noticed that at Vauxhall there is a lot of holding passengers at the top of the escalators - presumably for this reason.
I'm sure there are valid reasons why there can't be done, but two things that strike me are (1) maps at junctions are a good idea, but at peak times they give a hook for the unsure to hang on to at the point where you don't want them to. (2) if it were possible to "flare" the entrances I think you'd again improve flow
Also, as has been said, no way of knowing if you'd "win" by taking the diversion or not at the time
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Post by ducatisti on Jul 24, 2018 11:59:09 GMT
It would be funny if LU management met their Waterloo at, errrr, Waterloo...
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Post by ducatisti on Jul 24, 2018 11:57:19 GMT
"dispersal" as in "try to get rid of this bloc of people so we can fix the problem"? or as in "by the time they get to H&I they will have spread out enough to be able to board trains"
I took the Moorgate/Northern line alternative which cost me about 20 mins, so I'm curious to know if I'd been better staying and waiting
It's interesting, I last worked in Vauxhall back in the early 90s, and the vic always seemed much emptier than the northern. Then it got fuller and fuller. Now I'm back that way it's back to acceptable again, but because it shifts so many people so fast. You only really notice when it trips up a bit
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Post by ducatisti on Jul 24, 2018 8:41:31 GMT
Finsbury Park Tube was restricted access this morning due to over-crowding. Advice on the tannoy was to carry on to Highbury & Islington and get on the vic there. This seems counter-intuitive - won't the trains just be full at Finsbury Park and then arrive at H&I full?
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Post by ducatisti on Jul 23, 2018 9:29:15 GMT
I think people are better at it than is implied, and I worry that this announcement will actually put people off, and it certainly is more noise that limits the odds of people paying attention to it - either by putting in headphones or zoning out.
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Post by ducatisti on Jul 23, 2018 8:50:46 GMT
Thanks. My understanding is that the original plan involved salvaging electrical equipment from the A Stock to help power the Q38 cars and have the two plus Q35 car run unaided. I take it this is no longer practical? That is still the intention. Posted earlier by luacton is the idea to use the converted A Stock with generator for non-LU track running, thereby providing the traction voltage to power the motors. Without wishing to flog a dead horse I thought of a while back (well, OK, I am...) Presumably there will be a lot of space in there (relatively speaking). Can they put all the gubbins in there needed for the various new signalling systems in use. Also, can it be made de-couplable from the Q-stock - then it can be used as a more widely-used thing in case there is anything else self-propelled that needs to go across the surface networks. and if you keep the traction motors in it, you could run it up the quieter ends of the met and sell tea-towels to commuters between trains
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