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Post by ducatisti on Jul 12, 2018 8:20:09 GMT
Well, first I've seen - hiding at the back of Ferme Park sidings.
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Post by ducatisti on Jul 6, 2018 9:26:44 GMT
It had a bit of a burp this morning - defective train at Warren Street apparently
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Post by ducatisti on Jun 26, 2018 9:37:56 GMT
Seen on the platform announcements at Finsbury Park due to "problems at Moorgate"
How is that achieved operationally? Presumably they ran empty to Moorgate and reversed?
Mike
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Post by ducatisti on May 29, 2018 8:30:32 GMT
It was on the train. It felt like a speaker issue, but auto announcements do have their moments. (wildly off-topic, but the one at Guildford in the 90s used have some very strangulated posh vowels and used announce trains to Gatwick Earport...)
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Post by ducatisti on May 25, 2018 11:17:18 GMT
thanks for that.
I can't place it on the map I would guess it's about where the "16" mark is just East of Bethnal Green Station, but it runs parallel to the main railway rather than curving away.
I assume the RCH is for operational purposes and wouldn't bother with sidings?
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Post by ducatisti on May 25, 2018 9:48:36 GMT
I was out and about yesterday, and I went up Vallance Road In an alleyway between Hemming Street and Vallance Road linkrunning parallel to the railway (which is on a viaduct), there was the remnants of railway line running parallel to the extant line at ground level. The visible bits were some pointwork and two parallel tracks, all with continuous checkrails on the inside to allow for them to be inset into concrete up to rail level. Any idea what it was?
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Post by ducatisti on May 25, 2018 9:43:02 GMT
Was trundling about East London yesterday and caught the District in and out, changing at Mile End - which the automated announcements missed the initial M off both ways. anyone else noticed that?
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Post by ducatisti on May 14, 2018 14:28:07 GMT
lovely model!
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Post by ducatisti on Mar 27, 2018 8:22:48 GMT
Hello
this has suddenly become potentially relevant to me. Does anyone know 1) how on track are they with it (the TfL site says open "in 2020") - does anyone have any feel as to which end? 2a) what are the planned operating patterns? are current Kennington loop trains going to serve it? 2b) are there likely to be regular (say every 10 minute ish) from the Barnet branch down to the new extension?
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Post by ducatisti on Mar 27, 2018 8:16:33 GMT
heh! maybe we could borrow(ers) one?
(I think all the images will be on the website, but I can't look at videos at work)
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Post by ducatisti on Mar 27, 2018 8:14:38 GMT
Those numbers quoted aren't good are they? and it's not like there is a big SR electrification project they can piggy back on (25KV OLE anyone? imagine the stock needed to get through the Ryde tunnel under them...) I suspect they are going to rue turning down the previous stock even with all the door problems. Even if it just kicked the can down the road by a few years, it would allow the cost of works to be split across more budget years.
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Post by ducatisti on Mar 27, 2018 8:11:08 GMT
I'd really love to see this now! Have you any pics or is it possible to scan it for us to see? I don't have any pics at the moment. The link I linked to is to the TfL site. If you can masquerade as a 3-yr old, I'm sure TfL will send you one... If it's possible to put pics on here without a needing a flickr etc account, then I'll try and get some up, but won't be for a bit I'm afraid.
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Post by ducatisti on Mar 26, 2018 11:11:32 GMT
heh! wood green, not lane...
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Post by ducatisti on Mar 26, 2018 10:23:23 GMT
well, that's the thing - the only people that will find something specific to recognise are people on the Vic and the Picc (and of them, only the ones who go through the northern section). Wouldn't they have been better to go very generic? Also the rest of the book has trams/busses/landmarks that are all pretty specific. I can't find the specific image, but it's this scheme link
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Post by ducatisti on Mar 26, 2018 7:48:31 GMT
Our little one got issued with an illustrated book on road safety produced by TfL. Mostly sensible, although everything being [name][item] (up to, and including, Terry Traffic and [name I can't remember]Carbon[1]) grated after a bit. Somewhat annoying that nobody drove apart from the disabled family, and the only motorbike as described as "loud" (no other vehicle gets a noise-adjective) - so you can see the TfL transport agenda. anyway, the reason for mentioning it here was the one where they take the tube. Oskar and his dad are going to the St Patrick's Day celebrations in Trafalgar Square, so they get on the tube. They get on at wood lane, and it's a good recognisable illustration of a picc line extension station. With Victoria Line stock in the station (detailed down to the active door sensor wasp stickers on the door edges...)... I'm boggling at how they managed that. If the artist had drawn it from life, that couldn't have happened, if he'd got a pic of the station with train in, it couldn't have happened, if he'd just googled it, it would be unlikely to happen. Someone had to actively go out of their way to do that. In the grand scheme of things it's not the end of the world, but if they've gone to the trouble of drawing a recognisable tube station and a recognisable train, why couldn't they match...? [1] I'm keeping the "Dave Danger" stickers for the racebike
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Post by ducatisti on Mar 21, 2018 12:14:38 GMT
what is roughness in this context? presumably some level of corrugation to the rail-head? Is it discernible to persons on the train (depending on the size of corrugation it could presumably be anything from noise through vibration to actual "rough riding")
One has visions of it being measured by a line of carefully-filled cups of tea, each with a calibrated saucer to measure the spillage... (although the Great Western presumably used martinis, if Brideshead Revisited is to be believed...)
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Post by ducatisti on Mar 15, 2018 17:54:11 GMT
the other two refused to go back...
Journey data is always difficult - especially on a system like LU where lots of routes are possible - many journeys other than simple out-and-back are possible. They may have gone back to High Barnet and got a lift, or a bus.
As I understand it, this was where Beeching fell down - he worked on the basis of tickets sold, not considering where the purchasers went (and came back from). So lots of destinations had low sales and so got the chop.
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Post by ducatisti on Mar 15, 2018 17:53:43 GMT
It's always been a mystery to me why the Island line was electrified in the first place. The nearest existing electrified line was (and still is) less than five miles away but there is almost no chance of them ever being connected (and the raised floor of Ryde Tunnel would prevent through running anyway). Surely a higher priority would have been the Portsmouth-Southampton route, but that was not electrified until 1990. the southern, and to an extent the Southern Region were experts at bending the laws of space, time and accountancy. There was probably a lump of budget somewhere they would have had to give back otherwise. Also, the Southern were not great fans of diesels where they didn't have to.
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Post by ducatisti on Mar 15, 2018 8:56:24 GMT
High Barnet to Warren Street[1] is a sub-10 people as well
[1]this isn't my current commute, it's from a former job[2] [2]well, it's not as that involved national rail, but it's the tube analogue
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Post by ducatisti on Mar 8, 2018 14:26:24 GMT
I'm going for Queens Park
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Post by ducatisti on Mar 8, 2018 14:23:01 GMT
is cross-platform interchange no longer a Good Thing? how far has it been down-graded? is it just a nice-to-have now, or is it actively discouraged?
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Post by ducatisti on Mar 8, 2018 14:19:45 GMT
I'm completely bemused. ETA: Looking at some older diagrams it appears that something odd happens at Woodford but it's not entirely clear what. Many odd things happen in Woodford and beyond... Heading east, I need an Epping train, so it's not an issue for me, but I have seen a couple of permutations of trains to Hainault that could catch out the unwary (two trains in succession for Hainault going the opposite way round the loop)
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Post by ducatisti on Mar 5, 2018 10:51:51 GMT
+1 for Pimlico for A
I'm going to punt for London Bridge for B
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Post by ducatisti on Feb 28, 2018 9:34:14 GMT
according to TfL.
Was the train defective because of weather or otherwise. How long did it take to shift?
(context - I drive to near Loughton for work. It's a faff by train, but doable. I had to take the commuting car to the garage, and my wife was going to take my elderly neighbour shopping[1], but that had to be cancelled as I had to use the other car to go to work[2]).
[1] not life-and-death, but a trip out which she looks forward too [2] No, I am not taking the motorbike in this weather...
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Post by ducatisti on Feb 5, 2018 10:42:32 GMT
*falls over in shock* I don't think I've ever got one right before!
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Post by ducatisti on Feb 5, 2018 10:34:34 GMT
What the ORR has said is (in essence), no more third-rail electrification without a very good reason.
Preservation is not a very good reason.
They can't take out the ones that exist, but 3 rail is (compared to overhead) inefficient and dangerous
as for them just hanging around on the national network... trains cost money, trackspace costs money, working in their spaces costs money.
I like the idea of an electric Pete Waterman...(Waterbot 2000(TM)?)
It's going to be a big problem going forwards - if preserving a 4-car emu is tricky, who the heck is going to preserve a pendelino?
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Post by ducatisti on Feb 1, 2018 14:25:20 GMT
I'm going to guess golders Green
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Post by ducatisti on Jan 31, 2018 12:33:32 GMT
that doesn't sound like thickening, that just sounds like a very large number to make it go away... (ie TfL say "not doing it, too expensive", WBC say "pleeeeease, how much would it cost", TfL pick a number to leave them not exposed at all)
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Post by ducatisti on Jan 31, 2018 9:42:49 GMT
“There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'" "The mood will pass, sir.” ― P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters
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Post by ducatisti on Jan 31, 2018 9:37:32 GMT
It's horses for courses on these, but in my experience (professional services office jobs), I would never wear jeans as "smart casual" in a business context.
You don't say how old you are or what stage you are in life (there are many different places/times/reasons you could be doing work experience at). Whatever your own personal views on dress etc are, I think you are right to keep it conventional on your first day.
I do dress-down Friday and wear chinos, Chelsea boots (black) and TM-lewin (other shirt providers are available) not-white shirt. But then I am old and boring and have a wide range of dull clothes. If I had the OP's invite I'd go with something like that, probably with a tie in my pocket.
Do you own a suit? If you don't own a suit and have appropriate means, I'd think about buying one - it may well not be the best solution, but for an office job a non-fashion dark blue/grey suit, white shirt and black shoes will never be wrong. And you can wear it for interviews/weddings/funerals/court cases/masonic inductions/whatever formal events life throws at you. going off on a bit of a tangent now, but being comfortable in a suit is a really handy thing and will make said formal occasions much easier.
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