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Post by linus on Mar 12, 2023 22:36:00 GMT
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Post by linus on Dec 18, 2022 17:33:54 GMT
According to IanVisits, Moor Park station was opened in May 1910 as a small halt called Sandy Lodge, for the next-door golf course.
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Post by linus on May 18, 2022 17:44:14 GMT
Another day, another piteous strike threat by the appalling RMT. This time to close Euston and Green Park on 3rd June. What heroes! How brave. Their members must be so proud. Inconvenience the public, yay! Spread the joy. Thanks so much.
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Post by linus on Sept 4, 2021 9:14:29 GMT
Why not Turnham Green?
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Post by linus on Dec 16, 2020 17:09:44 GMT
Preparation for leaving the EU - an even leveller playing field
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Post by linus on Aug 31, 2020 11:57:32 GMT
I wonder whether these will have extensible floor plates, like much mainline stock, to fill the gaps. While these would constitute additional moving parts and failure points, presumably they could be as reliable as the doors, which these days seem pretty good. There would be many challenges such as variable distances (solvable by sensors), variable platform heights, cant (/slope), curvature (significant over the extensive door width); and there presumably isn't much available space in these low-floor trains. Also because of the wide doors they would be large and need to support a lot of weight, so bulky and heavy. But the curves at Bank, Embankment, Piccadilly Circus and others are lethal, and H&S must be on the case for new trains. Platform-based extensions are another possibility, which could involve a lot of chopping up; or perhaps combine that with general elevation to bring level boarding (assuming the trains themselves aren't lower, as with the S-Stock - but the tube stock is pretty low already). On balance I reckon platform work is probably preferable.
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Post by linus on Aug 24, 2020 13:19:14 GMT
The six 710/2s for the NLL/WLL are 5-car units and in multiple would be 10-car which is far too long for the platforms on the NLL and probably WLL. It appears that they will be reducing the 5-car units to 4-car and software configured to be able to operate in multiple as 8-car trains. Even as 8-car they would be far too long for the majority of NLL platforms and indeed GOB platforms too. The only lines where they could operate in more or less unrestricted 8-car formations is: West Anglia, DC (with SDO) and WLL. Really? The 5-car units are intended for the NLL/WLL, to release 378s for increased frequency on the ELL (as 710s can't operate on ELL due to no centre cab doors). If 8-car trains are run on the WLL they could only go as far as Willesden Junction, destroying the highly popular through service. Not sure if Clapham Plat 1 and the WJ turn back can take 8 cars?
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Post by linus on Mar 13, 2020 16:27:53 GMT
Not forgetting the Borismasters, notwithstanding their ultra-fast 3-door loading capability redeeming factor ...
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Post by linus on Mar 13, 2020 16:20:50 GMT
The Jubilee line bum rests are really poor, completely fail as perches. Though they do fit two people. The best are those on the Overground trains - proper comfortable perches, though those aren't really wide enough for two.
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Post by linus on Aug 22, 2019 21:27:16 GMT
At slow speeds, such as approaching West Hampstead southbound when held up by a preceding train, it's the atrocious TBTC software incapable of low speed control - goes to max then brake repeatedly, compounded by the siding pointwork (though better since they renewed it).
I'm only aware of two jerky starts - southbound from West Hampstead where recent track renewal seems to have produced a conductor rail gap or a control glitch: and southbound out of Baker Street over the sharp curve off the link to the Bakerloo line.
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Post by linus on Jun 5, 2019 8:45:53 GMT
Both RTT and NR are showing a full 15-minute interval service from Saturday 8th June. Albeit the NR site still has warnings that a reduced service is in operation! And NR is showing 4 trains an hour on the Euston - Watford local from 22nd June (currently 3 trains an hour with a half hour gap). Presumably using either new 710(s) or getting a 378 back from the Goblin.
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Post by linus on May 31, 2019 14:30:33 GMT
Both RTT and NR are showing a full 15-minute interval service from Saturday 8th June. Albeit the NR site still has warnings that a reduced service is in operation!
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Post by linus on Sept 30, 2018 18:21:14 GMT
So all these drivers are striking and inconveniencing the public without knowing why? In that case, why are they striking? Is it because of intimidation and bullying by their union colleagues? Where I work intimidation and bullying mean instant dismissal.
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Post by linus on Apr 28, 2018 13:44:44 GMT
The new Overground timetable is visible on NR tracker and Real Time Trains. Shows 8 trains an hour off-peak and weekends on the NLL, 4 each to Clapham Junction and Richmond (as reported in Modern Railways). Surprisingly also 5 LO tph on the WLL in extended peaks, one per hour turning at Willesden Junction. This makes for uneven headways and destinations on the NLL, with an ugly 12 or even 13 minute gap per hour in between otherwise more or less a 6-minute headway service, evidently prepared for future 10 tph when the new trains are delivered.
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Post by linus on Apr 21, 2018 12:23:22 GMT
Until at least the 1970s semi-fasts and fasts omitted Harrow on the Hill, and Uxbridge semi-fasts also omitted West Harrow. They never omitted Rayners Lane. So Fast Amershams & Cheshams ran non-stop Finchley Road - Moor Park, SF Watfords, Finchley Road - North Harrow, and SF Uxbridge, Finchley Road - Rayners Lane.
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Post by linus on Feb 2, 2018 20:38:26 GMT
Epping-Ongar Railway might be interested.
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Post by linus on Oct 20, 2017 18:10:02 GMT
www.cityam.com/273606/planned-upgrades-northern-and-jubilee-lines-have-beenSurprised this hasn't come up on this forum yet. Not surprising though in view of the general belt-tightening. There's reference in another report to frequency uplifts with the current stock in view of improved performance, availability, signalling and infrastructure improvements. I reckon with the upgraded turnback at West Hampstead, 6 tph could be turned there instead of Stanmore, potentially enabling 33 tph between WH and Stratford, at the expense of reducing from 30 to 27 tph between Stanmore and WH. Might be difficult in the evening peak though, with the necessity to turf out substantial numbers at WH; but the evening peak isn't as concentrated as morning, plenty of room for queuing at Canary Wharf, so 30 tph might continue to be OK in the evening. As for the Northern, I personally will be glad if the projected total line separation doesn't happen any time soon...
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Post by linus on Aug 13, 2017 10:30:04 GMT
At some point in the not too distant future the Jubilee line seat coverings will have to be replaced independently of the upgrade as they're already quite worn. So maybe someone can come up with a silver-themed variant with a bit of colour relief so the interiors don't look completely drab. I like the Bakerloo variant; fits in well with their refurbs.
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Post by linus on Aug 12, 2017 12:32:56 GMT
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Post by linus on Aug 5, 2017 9:46:35 GMT
The plan post-modernisation (4LM) is for 32 trains per hour on the northern half of the circle - 16 Met to Aldgate, 8 Circle and 8 H&C. This is a train every 7½ minutes, 33% more than today. If the Thales automatic signalling system works reliably, and there is no reason it shouldn't once it beds down, as on the now-exemplary Jubilee (and perhaps Northern, I don't use that frequently), then the service should be far better than now. 4LM is now due for completion around 2022, I believe, so only 5 years to wait.
Whitechapel to Liverpool Street / Moorgate, Farringdon and Paddington will of course be every 2½ mins peak, 3 mins off-peak, on the Elizabeth line from 2019. So plenty of alternatives.
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Post by linus on Jun 24, 2017 11:39:02 GMT
The 378s were delivered as 4 cars but an an extra car was added to all of them. Several stations (Canada Water etc) can't take any more and there are technical issues with the train consist that prevent it happening. Early 378s for the NLL were delivered as 3-car, then extended to 4, then to 5, with corresponding platform lengthening - twice over.
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Post by linus on Mar 19, 2017 13:35:06 GMT
I wonder how much cost is attributable to overall improvements at High Street and Junction that, while desirable, may not be absolutely essential to MLX, and could therefore be removed from its budget and addressed elsewhere, or later?
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Post by linus on Feb 15, 2017 20:17:12 GMT
The usual predictable totally disproportionate action of an irresponsible, mindless, callous bunch of cowardly louts.
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Post by linus on Jan 25, 2017 18:45:43 GMT
And of course rather than try to negotiate better relocation terms or alternatives, like millions of other workers (as opposed to ridiculously highly-paid shirkers) the pathetic union reaction is as always to throw all their toys out of the pram, inconvenience thousands of people trying to go about their daily business, cause huge risk of injury and death through overcrowding, and blame all this on management. Hypocrisy and cant.
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Post by linus on Jan 23, 2017 10:36:48 GMT
They've all fallen down the hole they forgot to fill in at the relaid West Hampstead siding.
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Post by linus on Dec 22, 2016 19:11:43 GMT
No, but I remember this Perhaps the two are related?
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Post by linus on Jul 15, 2016 17:07:07 GMT
Yes, noticed it yesterday; not sure when it started. More irritating verbal intrusion as far as I'm concerned. 99.9999999recurring% passengers know which side the doors will open and the remaining 0.0000000recurring1% can work it out within a few milliseconds of coming into a station. I wonder how many hapless people have been saved from trying desperately to get out of a closed door on the wrong side of the Victoria line since the 09 stock was introduced?
I think they're trying to fill the entire time with irrelevant drivel. My most hated is the driver who insists on playing "Please make sure you have all your belongings with you. Thank you for travelling on the Jubilee line" at every bloody station! What a prick! As if we have a choice and are travelling on it for fun! We only need the SSL's "The next station is ..." for the full set.
Likewise "Use escalators carefully. Hold the handrail. Get off at the top. Don't forget to breathe in and out alternately." Dear nanny state, f**k off!
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Post by linus on Dec 31, 2015 13:55:46 GMT
The Overground is not a single network, it is a brand. Showing it all in one colour as a mish-mash of disconnected routes is disingenuous. On the execrable carriage maps it really is almost impossible to work out where your particular bit goes. The designer, and the perpetrators, should hang their heads in shame.
North and West London Line East and South London Line Gospel Oak-Barking Line Watford Line Romford-Upminster Line West Anglia Line
And so on.
Precede each with "Overground" if you wish. Shade and/or pattern each individually, perhaps with a family identity such as orange borders with different colours or shapes (blobs, diamonds, hatching etc) within. This is simple, logical, comprehensible and scalable when new routes come on board. It will obviate the unintelligible garbage that appears on the TfL website whenever there's "Overground" delay or closure irrelevant to 90% of its users. It will relate BBC Breakfast local news travel items to the intended audience, whereas "delays on the Overground" is simply meaningless.
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Post by linus on Aug 25, 2015 20:21:40 GMT
Leytonstone, when you say "It certainly seems ...", is that from experience? As a regular commuter from Willesden Green, I perceive an entirely different Jubilee Line to the one you describe. Today excepted, it has indeed been a model of reliability for several years, since the initial automation wobbles died down. It has also speeded up dramatically with tbtc; before that, trains would crawl start-stop during the morning peak all the way. Now it is rare for any train to be held, and then generally due to passenger action. When things do go wrong (rarely train or signalling-related), service recovery is generally very rapid.
Deceleration at above-ground stations could be improved slightly, but is hardly worse, if at all, than driven trains. Speeds above ground are fast - 50mph? As fast as the parallel Met and Chiltern trains. Station dwell times are regular; I agree that on the Bakerloo particularly drivers sometimes close doors almost immediately at lightly-used stations; but then have to stand at Queens Park or Paddington to wait right time. Whereas the Jubilee is even.
And I believe the Jubilee has one of the highest passenger satisfaction ratings of any of the underground lines. Rightly so, in my opinion (and I use them all).
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Post by linus on Aug 16, 2015 11:40:03 GMT
" Metropolitan Line Extension (MLE) Otherwise known as the Croxley Rail Link, the newly named Metropolitan Line Extension is due to be handed over to TfL from Hertfordshire County Council on 10 September 2015. The project has been designed to deliver a long-standing need to link Watford town centre with the London Underground. The extension of the Metropolitan line from Croxley to Watford Junction will involve the closure of the existing Watford Metropolitan line station but will see the creation of two new stations, Cassiobridge and Watford Vicarage Road. The line will link to current London Overground services at Watford High Street, before terminating at Watford Junction where it will interchange with the West Coast Mainline services." Hmmm. Slightly misleading, as Watford town centre was of course linked with the London Underground via the Bakerloo line until 1982, which could easily be restored if there were any need, which apparently there still isn't. So the actual ostensible "long-standing need" is to link Watford town centre specifically with the Metropolitan line. A picky point, but the significance and potential benefits are completely different.
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