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Post by Phil on May 13, 2007 11:04:57 GMT
Can anyone involved with the tour find an answer on how the tickets will be allocated? I don't know how many people a 4-car 1938 stock seats, but can't be many (170 ish?) Thanks, David 140 per train as stated elsewhere here
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Post by Phil on May 12, 2007 13:54:29 GMT
I have been told that there will be a staff and family event at Golders Green to celebrate the centenary but there will be no public admission....................While I am reluctant to express an opinion, I do feel that the companies involved have missed a massive public relations/press opportunity. Oh I doubt that an opportunity will be missed. It's a near certainty that a reporter from the substandard will somehow manage to get in as "friend/family" of a LU staff member. That way it'll get reported warts and all. It'll be interesting to see what they say, regardless of how much is believed. And with no general public there to refute anything......oh well!
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Post by Phil on May 6, 2007 15:16:38 GMT
C'mon CSLR - nothing is beyond hope unless you yourself have to admit defeat! Can you not pull strings, remove fingers from orifices and generally try to set fire to the red tape.....??
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Post by Phil on Jan 12, 2007 22:52:15 GMT
Someone has scratched some of the writing away and one part now reads (strangely) 'After passing a signal at danger expect to find' and the other bit says Do pass semi automatic signals at anger without authority. Authorised persons are low in this driving cab' - you can probably guess what the stickers were meant to say. Makes the picture that bit more lifelike!!!!! Yes, on the old doors of stock you could amend the warning notice to: "obstruct... the doors ... cause delays and ... be dangerous" And when I said 'you' I meant we 'one' could.
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Post by Phil on Dec 28, 2006 11:03:46 GMT
Just seen it on the news! Won't give them the satisfaction by linking to the news site where they have a picture. Oh how sad (and almost predictable these days) that even the Beeb has seen fit to publicise their 'work' by showing pics of it! Don't the press EVER learn (or listen to impassioned pleas)? Personally if I was LU top-brass I would seriously consider closing the affected platforms to the public until the cleanup has been finished. Apart from enabling it to be done a lot quicker, the public outcry might just result in attitudes changing and the public reporting what they know a bit quicker. I could argue a convincing case for shutting those platforms completely on Health and Safety grounds (but won't here for obvious reasons).
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Post by Phil on Dec 28, 2006 8:31:53 GMT
Again from what I'm told, BTP are taking the incident very seriously. So CCTV MAY be of use (of course with hoodies etc!), plus of course the route these mis-fits took to get to Camden. i.e. did they break into the station or walk down the pipe. Surely the thing that must be playing on BTP's mind is - 'is there a 3rd entrance method we've missed up till now?' Something like an access point for services direct from street level, or possibly the drainage system, or an air-conditioning duct, which gets them into the station without going through the locked gates. I think that last week's rant thread about security not being taken seriously enough is more valid now than when it was written.
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Post by Phil on Dec 27, 2006 12:44:43 GMT
Regrettably in underground (Sorry) tagging terms this will count as a huge success and personal image booster. To get in unhindered to an 'impregnable' location will do the guys' street-cred a power of good.
Fortunately for once the press do not seem to have taken/published a phot, thank goodness.
BUT.....one for the security guys to worry about. Supposing it was a time-delay bomb, not a canful of paint they were depositing. From that aspect we ought to be very thankful I s'pose. In a way they've done the punters a favour.
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Post by Phil on Dec 6, 2006 10:42:08 GMT
I often do that (change at Hampstead), although then I have the niggling suspicion that the GG reverser may have actually caught up with an Edgware train waiting for it at GG, or even ended up continuing to Edgware itself... Maybe you are showing yourself as a hidden gambler . Rather than the safe 'bet' of changing at Hampstead and guaranteeing a place on the next train, you are hanging on to the end in the hopes of a shot at the 'previous' train. More risky but can be a winner.
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Post by Phil on Dec 6, 2006 10:06:06 GMT
Only good thing, Alan, is that at least you know to change at Hampstead next time (it's under cover as well......)
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Post by Phil on Dec 2, 2006 11:06:29 GMT
You can already reverse via the depot at Morden; the scissors crossover south of the station is controlled by IMR 'Y'. T/Ops would simply work forwards to the depot STOP boards, then return to the platform via signals Y28 or Y30. www.trainweb.org/tubeprune/Morden-lmo5-4.gifHmmm... it's all there isn't it? It just needs someone to work out a few paths in and out of 44 and 45 roads, and timings thereunto. And if you double-ended them off the platform the tph could be increased still further (at the expense of marginally more staff). Afterthought: if the relieved driver's next pickup was platform 1 it would create a problem unless there was a train in P2/3 to walk through. Scrap that!
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Post by Phil on Dec 2, 2006 8:06:26 GMT
With Morden being built as a through station, has any thought been given to a rebuild to allow reversing via the depot as with the W&C?
I would have thought that with two arrival platforms and one departure, the platform dwell times could be considerably reduced and the tph increased that way. That also means no conflicting movements on the 'service' side of the station throat. Have I missed something obvious?
In theory you could then easily depart a train every 90secs if needed.
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Post by Phil on Nov 18, 2006 23:19:23 GMT
Yup, sure does clear up a lot of misunderstandings in a way a description never could. Thanks again.
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Post by Phil on Nov 15, 2006 12:44:40 GMT
Thanks. Eagerly awaited!
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Post by Phil on Nov 15, 2006 7:14:27 GMT
And, to make our joy complete, I suppose nobody has done a plan/drawing of the route showing the exact orientation of the two lines in the various locations (or indeed along the route)?? Please?
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Post by Phil on Nov 14, 2006 14:09:28 GMT
Oh CSLR - if only you'd been a member a year ago!!
We spent weeks (well, days anyway!) discussing the reasons for it and none of us could come up with a definitive answer!
Thanks indeed.
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Post by Phil on Oct 24, 2006 22:22:58 GMT
It has always annoyed me, even before I knew the history behind it, that all the routes are radial, meaning that if I wanted to get from, say, Barnet to Hendon, it's quicker to take the looooong bus trip. Ah yes the 107 bus route - ran past my house when I lived in London. Connected the following stations: Enfield Town (GE), Enfield Chase (GN), Oakwood, New barnet (GN), High Barnet, Edgware, then spoiled it all by going to Queensbury not Stanmore! Took an age, but ran through some nice semi-rural areas in places, virtually along the edge of the green belt.
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Post by Phil on Oct 24, 2006 13:18:13 GMT
They'd be far better off getting an increased service to Potters Bar. Unless capacity is so stretched there that they can't reverse a few peak hour trains there for KX/Moorgate (and that may be so ?? Anyone??) it would be a far easier option.
In any case, Barnet to South Mimms is stupid compared with Cockfosters to Potters Bar/South Mimms. Latter has far easier gradients (but still pretty steep in places).
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Post by Phil on Aug 16, 2006 18:53:53 GMT
Admin comment: historical items are (and always have been) welcome and keenly read, but please can we put them in the right place: there is a board specifically called 'historical' for the purpose.
Ta.
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Post by Phil on Aug 12, 2006 16:18:31 GMT
Here is an extract from an Ordnance Survey map of 1912. The LNER line is shown clearly but there do not seem to be the level crossings mentioned above. (WARNING - large pic). i21.photobucket.com/albums/b300/rbruce1314/OScrp.jpg(Can be zoomed in to get clearer idea)
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Post by Phil on Jul 21, 2006 11:18:53 GMT
Thats what they want you to think ;D I've heard about this to, but thought nothing of it. Sounds similar to the rumour that there are 1000 steam engines hidden deep in a quarry/mine in lancashire so that if there is a clever attack which puts out all electric and electronic devices there will still be a means of propulsion. It's been denied for decades but it does not mean that some still believe it Some even claim to have 'evidence'. But how do you actually DISPROVE something like this? You can't.
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Post by Phil on Jun 17, 2006 9:42:02 GMT
Allegedly sums it up.
But we did get up to things a while ago. Imagine. Long hill. 1/2 mile. Dead straight. 1-in-5 up. Bus in 2nd Gear. 10mph max. Very quiet (wide) country road.
What would YOU do? I would use it to count my money, check duties or rosters, anything to relieve the boredom. Always elbows wedged on wheel so both hands could be used.
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Post by Phil on Jun 6, 2006 12:06:22 GMT
But also with experience in that field, smart planners have a list of jobs to be done sequentially during a shutdown: once the first is finished then the remaining time is reassessed as to whether the next can be done in time.
And yes, occasionally the first job meets such a big snag that either the job is reversed (if possible) or it has to be finished whatever the time outcome, i.e. an overrun
But it's a case of frequency isn't it? Once in a while is (almost) inevitable. This year there do seem to have been too many for comfort....
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Post by Phil on Jul 8, 2006 12:18:19 GMT
Aye otherwise there would be trains up the back of each other and probably more spads if the trains were faster. I would like to see one on ull power though! THRASH! lol MSO, as a potential t/op at some stage it's a bit worrying to hear you imply that with increased performance there will be more SPADs. Are there NO Northern t/ops professional enough to adjust their braking techniques to cater for the extra power??
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Post by Phil on Apr 15, 2006 15:03:07 GMT
OOPs!! I was confusing the layout with an earlier trackplan and at that zoom mixed the reversing siding with the S/B
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Post by Phil on Apr 12, 2006 22:53:59 GMT
1. That's a siding
2. there were no 2-car sets when Google Earth was done.
So - presumably some sort of track-recording train or similar.
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Post by Phil on May 21, 2006 20:13:28 GMT
I have now been waiting nearly a month for a correction... Isn't it now fair to assume one is not coming............?
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Post by Phil on Apr 5, 2006 11:56:47 GMT
They could always revive the 4-car 38ts from the museum. After all it would not have to do many miles... Runs away and hidesI think a better idea would be for LUL/LTM to buy all six class 483 units from the Island Line ( or who ever the hell owns the trains on NR these days) when they are whithdrawn around next two years and use them on the Mill Hill East branch. The LT museum could have one as well if they wanted it ( and pinch the 38ts trailer from CHTL and make a 7 car 38ts train) Ah, but your option means they have to be converted back to 4-rail. And that means somebody has to pay for it..............
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Post by Phil on Apr 4, 2006 22:53:39 GMT
They could always revive the 4-car 38ts from the museum. After all it would not have to do many miles...
Runs away and hides
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Post by Phil on Apr 3, 2006 15:07:02 GMT
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Post by Phil on Mar 30, 2006 18:59:43 GMT
I missed a few of the details on the TV news, but the station announcements have been suspended because the neighbours complained. Like at Earl's Court?
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