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Post by profoblivion on Mar 12, 2018 14:26:48 GMT
Barking Riverside missing? That's updated I see two Amershams, but then it could be the new glasses ...
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Post by profoblivion on Jun 27, 2017 19:35:02 GMT
When I saw this headline I thought, "Ah! So someone else has seen it". But not so -- my experience (twice in the last month; I'm not a regular user) was KX EB Met/H&C/Circle. Quite consistent displays of 1 or even 2 minutes' wait when the train was actually pulling in to the platform.
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Post by profoblivion on Nov 23, 2016 1:35:00 GMT
Saw no fewer than four sets EB between Upminster and West Ham as I travelled WB on C2C around 4:00-4:20pm. Couldn't tell which (going too fast).
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Post by profoblivion on Sept 14, 2016 14:39:58 GMT
If you have not seen it there is a great documentary on BBC iPlayer "How they dug the Victoria Line" First transmitted in 1969, this is the story of the construction of the world’s most advanced underground system where automated trains are driven along hand-finished tunnels. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00sc29t/how-they-dug-the-victoria-line First post to the Board. I watched the documentary and read the paper in Ground Engineering on the Vic civil engineering project. While an engineering undergraduate in 1968, I went with three fellow students to look at the Vic workings at KX and Euston. One of the three was the son of the then CME of LMR, who took us round (the holes were, after all, being dug under his station at Euston). I seem to remember wandering down the tunnels as far as Oxford Circus. The highlight was a visit to a step-plate junction at Euston where a conical chamber had been constructed around an existing tunnel. As we arrived at the junction via the new tunnel we saw what looked like a massive sewer pipe at the other end of the step-plate chamber, but it wasn't a sewer, it was the Northern Line with trains running through it. The construction crew must have broken through and re-laid the track a few weeks later during a bank holiday weekend, to move the Northern Line for cross-platform interchange with the Vic. The GE article refers to both concrete and cast iron tunnel linings, but I seem to remember that at the point north of Oxford Circus where the NB Vic swings over the Bakerloo tunnels and ends up to the right of the SB Vic (so as to be in the right place for the Euston Vic/Northern interchange) there was minimal clearance between the Vic and the NB Bakerloo, such that (a) a packing material (cork?) was used to keep the tunnels physically separate, and (b) a short section of the Vic tunnel was lined with steel (not cast iron) so that it could flex as trains passed by. Any more information on this would be much appreciated.
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