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Post by bringbackcrouchhil on Dec 3, 2017 13:14:34 GMT
Hi,
How come there are series of blue hoops over the track west of westferry?
Thanks,
JC
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Post by bringbackcrouchhil on Nov 15, 2017 20:44:33 GMT
Hi,
When is the double tracking around Bow Road actually going to happen? How long will the line be closed for? And how are they going to fit it in, I just can’t see the space when I get that track...
<<superteacher - thread title corrected.>>
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Post by bringbackcrouchhil on Aug 4, 2017 21:16:48 GMT
Hi,
I've been reading Diamond Geezer's latest post on the dot matrix at Bow Road and it reminded me that nearly every time I need to get from east London to King's Cross it always goes wrong. I watch District line train after District Line train go by longing for the magic word Hammersmith to appear on the dot matrix but it never does or takes an insufferably long time. There always seems a multitude of passengers in the same position waiting on the platform.
Why historically has Hammersmith and City line not been given more paths / priority and is it really going to get better when the signalling is (eventually) upgraded? This always hits me as rather odd as there always appears to be a fifty fifty split between passengers wanting the District and those wanting the H+C
JC
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Jul 27, 2017 14:34:43 GMT
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Post by bringbackcrouchhil on Jul 27, 2017 14:34:43 GMT
How much would PEDs/PSDs cost and how long would it take to install...
JC
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Post by bringbackcrouchhil on Jul 25, 2017 21:57:06 GMT
Hiya,
Thanks for the reply. Perhaps I should have been clearer in my question
How come when they were designing crossrail they did not choose Ebbsfleet as the terminus. SEEems like a strategically significant location (e.g HS1 and Garden Village).
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Post by bringbackcrouchhil on Jul 24, 2017 15:38:44 GMT
I understand your comment about PAYG couldn't work with anytime journeys charging more than ÂŁ200 --
but surely it should have been rolled out to the Network SouthEast Area by now?
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Post by bringbackcrouchhil on Jul 24, 2017 6:34:09 GMT
Yes it was Ascot
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Post by bringbackcrouchhil on Jul 23, 2017 23:07:16 GMT
There I was at Waterloo on Epson Races day and loads of top hatted chaps were getting increasingly irate as they had to queue for tickets to get trains to the races. Whilst South Western should have had more staff available... imagine how much time/cost/inconvenience could be saved if all of these passengers could have just tapped their way to Epson
Surely it is not beyond the technology of oyster to not extend it to the whole country...
If I want to visit Brighton or York or Woking it would be lovely to get tap, tap sit on the train tap and I'm done. No blasted evil, vile, awful, confusing, incomprehensible ticket machine to grapple with.
Surely there must be some way of touching in on the train to indicate your travelling in standard or first class or if you have an advance fare...
I know there will be difficult issues involving railcards/children/tourists etc... but surely nothing beyond the wit of someone
Why is it taking so long to roll out this technology?
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Post by bringbackcrouchhil on Jul 23, 2017 22:59:50 GMT
Hi,
Why does the safeguarding to Hoo Junction not go further; specifically why is there not safeguarding for an extension to Ebbsfleet International?
JC
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Post by bringbackcrouchhil on Sept 24, 2013 6:05:28 GMT
Hi,
What is the point of trains terminating at North Greenwich? I understand the history and there is passive provision for an extension. However, I don't understand why there are peak trains terminating early when there is sufficient provision at Stratford.
JC
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Post by bringbackcrouchhil on Aug 25, 2013 13:00:28 GMT
I am presently charging my phone on one of the plug sockets on the overground train. Why are there plug sockets on these trains?
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Post by bringbackcrouchhil on Mar 6, 2012 7:37:28 GMT
As much as I like Westminster tube station, why wasn't the jubilee line extended via Victoria? Then there would have been a direct link between Victoria, Waterloo and London Bridge--all the main south London termini.
Jc
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Post by bringbackcrouchhil on Dec 21, 2011 14:03:57 GMT
Why do the tracks on the East London Line not have railway sleepers, instead they have two stumps? What is the advantage of the stumps?
JC
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Post by bringbackcrouchhil on Nov 15, 2011 21:46:13 GMT
Are Crossrail and Thameslink going to be on the tube map?
JC
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Post by bringbackcrouchhil on Aug 25, 2011 23:02:56 GMT
At Highbury and Islington....
Opposite the stairs leading to the new platforms and inbetween the escalators and the ticket barriers there is a space the size of a couple of badminton court going completely spare.....
What's that about?
Also, are there any plans to open the old entrance on Holloway Road or is that dead for good?
JC
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Post by bringbackcrouchhil on Apr 3, 2011 9:29:09 GMT
I was born in 1983; I can recall travelling on the underground as a child (somewhere between the age of 7 and 10 I think so between 1990 and 1993) and riding on wooden seats. Does anyone know what stock that would have been, because my preliminary wikipediaring hasn't revealed the answer. (I could just be recallling an early visist to the London Transport Museum though ) JC
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Post by bringbackcrouchhil on Mar 7, 2011 22:04:58 GMT
This is a terribly ignorant question:
Right according to my GCSE Double Science (A Grade) electricity must run in a circuit; my understanding of 3rd rail is that there is only one feed in point but where does the juice go after that?
I can understand how 4th rail works, but 3rd rail baffles me slightly.
J
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Post by bringbackcrouchhil on May 26, 2010 22:35:44 GMT
Apparently the district line has infrastructure that dates back to before the war and for most of the line there are not any electronic board.
Compared to the other lines, the district line seems to not have had the same investment as the others... why?
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Post by bringbackcrouchhil on Feb 21, 2010 23:09:26 GMT
According to London Connections the upgrade of the jubilee line will go on until 3RD OCTOBER!!! londonreconnections.blogspot.com/I thought it was meant to be done by the end of last year. What's gone wrong and who the devil is to blame and how can this be avoided for the Northern Line? JC
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Post by bringbackcrouchhil on Feb 12, 2010 20:07:55 GMT
Does anyone know if they are still planning to go ahead with the new tunnels and lifts or is Finsbury Park just getting a facelift?
JC
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Post by bringbackcrouchhil on Jan 16, 2010 12:37:46 GMT
It used to be updated regularly, but now it seems to have turned into an internet relic to be glared at as some emblem of a bygone area--of interest to those who study rare antiquities but of use to those who wish to know about forthcoming and proposed plans--no more.
JC
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Post by bringbackcrouchhil on Nov 30, 2009 23:13:42 GMT
I thought it was generally regarded that signal failures have reduced over time.
So when the Victoria / Jubilee line are having their signals replaced does this actually mean that antiquated old copper wires are being replaced by sophisticated, elegant, Ursula Andress in Dr. No cables which will never short circuit or blow?
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Post by bringbackcrouchhil on Nov 29, 2009 23:43:10 GMT
There are a few phrases in English that can break the spirit of the sunniest of optimist. Included amongst these are:
'We need to talk...' 'You're call is very important to us...' 'Blackwell Tunnel...' 'And now for the weather report'
But worse amongst these is 'due to a signal failure'...
What actually is a 'signal failure' and if a signal has 'failed' why can the trains still run at all?
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Post by bringbackcrouchhil on Nov 29, 2009 23:24:44 GMT
That seems a bit unlikely given that a majority of these platforms are not used. I imagine there is a historical reason...
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Post by bringbackcrouchhil on Nov 29, 2009 17:39:57 GMT
How come there is only one track between two platforms at Finsbury Park (e.g. using above diagram between platforms 4&5, 6&7 and 1&-1)?
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Post by bringbackcrouchhil on Nov 29, 2009 17:23:03 GMT
Thanks for all the detailed replies, from the diagram above it was the platform between the up goods and up slow. I'm a bit confused, are we agreed that was the old broad street platform?
When the Thameslink project is done, will that mean I'll be able to get a train direct from Finsbury Park to London Bridge and Gatwick?
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Post by bringbackcrouchhil on Nov 27, 2009 16:14:40 GMT
As I was waiting for my Norther City Line train today I was staring at the advertising boards and realised they were on an abandoned platform that had been left to ruin. I think it was on the South Eastern Side of the station.
What trains used to pass through there? And how come the platforms are no longer used?
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Post by bringbackcrouchhil on Nov 14, 2009 1:48:50 GMT
This message has been moved to Railway Ideas, Proposals and Suggestions by mrfs42. After weighing up the possibilities between the 'Overground' and the 'RIPaS' board for this thread: as it belongs to the possible future of the ELL, rather than the ELL as part of the UndergrounD network; the 'RIPaS' board won out. ;D
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