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Post by harbour on May 23, 2017 7:20:11 GMT
I have sometimes been sitting on the first indicated departure, and seen one, or occasionally two, trains depart before the one I am on. It adds only a few minutes to my arrival time at the other end when that happens, but even so I find it quite frustrating! Especially since most of the commuters would have been getting on "my" train as the indicated next departure, and it becomes particularly crowded. I had been assuming that the trains would depart in their timetabled sequence if they were at the platforms, hence my keenness to know the train numbers so that I could get on the correct "next" one. But it seems from the discussion that this is not always the case. Enlightening info, thanks all!
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Post by harbour on May 20, 2017 19:53:34 GMT
Yes those first and last lists are far from helpful. I needed the proper District WTT to learn the correct departure sequence from Wimbledon at my commuting time in the mornings, so that I can confidently ignore the sometimes wrong indicator boards in the foyer. It warms the cockles of my heart to hear Mrs H referring to the "124 train" these days after I taught her too!
I wonder if this is a permanent policy change by TfL. Retrograde step, if so
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Post by harbour on May 12, 2017 10:27:02 GMT
C Background - Edinburgh Castle?
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Post by harbour on May 10, 2017 11:00:59 GMT
It's a nice view of Tibidabo, Barcelona in the background
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Post by harbour on May 5, 2017 18:02:53 GMT
I finally was on a train that arrived into platform 1 at Earls Court from Wimbledon this morning (train 124), after several announcements of congestion ahead. I was really surprised when I looked out of the window to the left of the train and saw the wall rather than a platform! Disappointingly my wife tells me she has similarly arrived into P1 a few weeks back. Perhaps it is now a move that is now becoming used more when problems with the service are occurring?
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Post by harbour on Apr 28, 2017 16:34:38 GMT
Today when commuting into Victoria on the District Line I twice noticed a light blue board with a white "6" on, trackside, and if my memory is correct they were sited before Gloucester Rd station and after South Ken. Are these the train length markers that were mentioned on an old thread I found when searching "blue". Are they new along that stretch of the SSL, they looked clean and shiny to me. Or am I just unobservant apart from today?!
Thanks for any input
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Post by harbour on Apr 27, 2017 9:26:36 GMT
I note that the WTT page on the tfl site has a slot for the upcoming 21 May version of the District WTT, but that the link is not yet live. Is it still being finalised?
Thanks
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Post by harbour on Apr 24, 2017 9:32:52 GMT
There is a page about the bogie system here
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Post by harbour on Apr 21, 2017 18:53:54 GMT
Thought I had missed T004 whe I got to St James Park, so travelled by S stock to Earls Court to change to Wimbledon branch and home, but a timely announcement from the lady on the platforms meant I had the opportunity to hang on for two minutes to ride for one stop off my route. Earlier delay was obviously to pick up the extra dozen or so t/ops I noticed in the cab...!
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Post by harbour on Apr 11, 2017 15:46:01 GMT
According to the ianvisits site, the tunnel boring machines (one of them at least) are now at work
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Post by harbour on Mar 28, 2017 15:32:06 GMT
After all the effort of installing the new points at EC, are they in operation? I have yet to arrive at Platform 1 on my daily commute from Wimbledon, but have experienced a hold at West Brompton on a few occasions this year, so wonder if they are commissioned and it's just too much of a faff to use them, or are they still waiting on some more testing?
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Post by harbour on Mar 15, 2017 19:21:15 GMT
The driver of our District Line train from Wimbledon announced the delay as due to a derailed engineering train, which was more than usually informative. Top marks, that man!
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Post by harbour on Mar 14, 2017 21:19:41 GMT
I was surprised to note this evening that the bags of sand/cement are still present on the roof, so it seems there is no rush to remedy whatever problem has occurred - perhaps meaning that a solution might be complicated?
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Post by harbour on Mar 2, 2017 12:42:52 GMT
The entrance was open again when I passed before 8am this morning (2nd March)
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Post by harbour on Feb 28, 2017 21:07:30 GMT
The entrance is still closed today (5 days later). On the day after the incident there was a gathering of six people standing on the roof, presumably investigating a problem up there. I did not notice loose signage around the entrance. I have to say the arrangement of the tall buildings in the vicinity does seem to increase wind velocity, especially through Cardinal Place, so this entrance will be subjected to quite a bit of strong wind through its life. Lets hope the design is up to the job
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