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Post by cso on Mar 8, 2010 9:33:31 GMT
The service would, as a passenger, be Part Suspended South Ruislip - West Ruislip as we were at Ruislip Gardens station... So that's also not a good service.
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Post by cso on Mar 8, 2010 8:16:45 GMT
Around about 2330 last night, there was an nnouncement on the West Ruislip bound central line train that I was on regarding a delay at Ruislip Gardens due to vandals on the tracks between there and West Ruislip.
We duly sat there for 45 minutes and , fair play to the driver, he shut the doors on the request of those of us cold on the train... However all through this lovely 45 minute delay... TFL thought there was. "Good Service" on the Central Line.
Surely that can't possibly be the case if there's 45 minutes worth of delays to the lead train as following trains will have even longer...
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Post by cso on Mar 2, 2010 21:10:54 GMT
I'd hazard a guess someone hasn't worked out how to (metaphorically) change the record... although armed with that information, I may challenge it next time I hear it at Ickenham
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Post by cso on Mar 2, 2010 9:54:08 GMT
Ickenham does the East London Line announcement too... very annoying and utterly pointless.
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Post by cso on Feb 25, 2010 13:49:31 GMT
It's a closed station though (which I was aware of already) which was why I was confused... as I'd have expected it to be 'Between Finchley Road and Baker Street' not 'Swiss Cottage' and initially thought that I'd misheard and they were saying there were Jubille Line problems
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Post by cso on Feb 25, 2010 12:49:47 GMT
This is worrying - am I the only one that feels that if such a ban was put in place for the Olympics, that the authorities would be in no hurry to lift it afterwards? Nope, you're definitely not the only one, I'd been thinking the same to be honest. I know that s.44 was deemed unlawful, however I'm sure that someone will be tasked with finding a way to getting something that looks, feels and works like s.44 in via other means. The impression I got was that the government were just going to 'ignore' the unlawful nature of it.
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Post by cso on Feb 25, 2010 12:47:03 GMT
I'm going to admit to being slightly confused...
The signal failure this morning that resulted in a few trains being terminated at Wembley and then Severe Delays was due to a signal failure at Swiss Cottage if I heard the announcement on the train correctly.
However, I thought Swiss Cottage was on the Jubilee Line so how would this affect the Met?
Cheers,
Confused
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Post by cso on Feb 15, 2010 13:42:57 GMT
Is there a tunnel to the south of Wembley Park to allow Met line trains access to Neasden? I occasionally seen trains appear or disappear down between Metropolitan North Track (Plat 2) and Jubilee North Track (Plat 3) and wonder where they go..
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Post by cso on Feb 15, 2010 11:16:49 GMT
I did wonder if it was a W&C line train, but I thought they could only get out by being lifted... Ah well, appears to not be as interesting as I hoped it might have been
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Post by cso on Feb 15, 2010 10:10:15 GMT
Was on a West Ruislip -> Epping service yesterday, between WR and White City, and spotted 'Special' being shown on the WR bound platforms...
Around about Perivale (between 1200 and 1230), the special train came through with it's front indicator saying 'Waterloo' and I couldn't work out why, as it certainly wasn't in service (and was going the wrong way anyway!) so just wondering what it was... if anyone knows?
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Post by cso on Feb 10, 2010 23:48:25 GMT
A couple of the larger images aren't working (A and D I think) BTW/
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Post by cso on Feb 9, 2010 16:04:14 GMT
Chris is right though - there's no real benefit gain by announcing the Circle interchange at Hammersmith. ... So whilst the Circle interchange is correctly shown on the maps, the actual importance of the interchange facility is very low in reality. If there's no real benefit gained by announcing it, there's no real benefit gained by having it on the map either, though, surely? Note that I'm not saying it's needed, but it does seem to me that it's a little strange to have one and not the other...
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Post by cso on Feb 8, 2010 14:52:59 GMT
While I partially agree with you, if it's shown as an interchange on the map in the carriage, then announcing it makes sense.
EG: Met/Circle/H&C line all interchange between Baker Street and Liverpool Street, but only certain stations announce this, when it's shown on the in-car diagrams.
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Post by cso on Feb 8, 2010 10:58:15 GMT
Took the picadilly line yesterday in to Central London for a change (OK rather more because there's a nice pub that serves food in Hammersmith) and noticed that the announcements for interchange was "District and Hammersmith and City" with no mention of the circle line.
I'd have thought these would have been updated by now?
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Post by cso on Feb 5, 2010 0:53:15 GMT
Hopefully not... but I don't mind the poster - but I can't stand the 'The East London Line is closed' announcements on platforms for the Met past Harrow on the Hill!
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Post by cso on Feb 2, 2010 11:15:01 GMT
1. Bad, it will require MANY weekend closures. Isn't it also meant to involve stopping running a full service at about 8.30pm too, to enable trains to return to depot's before 11.30pm?
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Post by cso on Jan 27, 2010 12:26:50 GMT
Would this be the 'temporary timetable changes' which my mate saw advertisied at Watford - a Watford fast doing all stations?
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Post by cso on Jan 27, 2010 12:25:21 GMT
The weekly TFL closure email says:
"Bank station is closed until late January 2010. For further details and alternative routes, please click here"
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Post by cso on Jan 19, 2010 12:28:50 GMT
I had wondered what had happened this morning...
Although this sounds like human error on the part of those that either errected the scaffolding, or the ones that told them how high to make it?
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Post by cso on Jan 18, 2010 12:12:10 GMT
Well, my housemate's theory was more that people would expect trains to terminate at Stanmore and Stratford, so the other stations were said differently to make people notice that something had changed and that the train wasn't going to the 'end'...
Thanks for the info all - it's much appreciated!
Colin
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Post by cso on Jan 17, 2010 11:57:44 GMT
On the Jubilee line, I've noticed something quirky with the train announcements... my house-mate reckons he has worked out why, but we don't know if it's correct so hoping the knowledgeable people here might be able to confirm / deny... not that I'll give you his theory until after On the train announcements, if the train is terminating at Stanmore, or Stratford (the ones I usually here...) then the announcement is made in the standard voice. "This train terminates at Stanmore" for example. However, if it terminates at Canons Park or West Ham, (the other two I usually here) then there's an inflection at the end so... 'This train terminates at' is in the usual voice, but 'West Ham' or 'Canons Park' is said in a slightly different, higher tone - but it's reasonably hard to describe through the medium of words! Does anyone know why this is? Also, additionally, sometimes at Wembley, the 'This train terminates here. All change' type announcement is sometimes a ladies voice, and other times a man's voice (and it's the same man each time I hear it which makes me think it's recorded!) - any reason for the different messages? Cheers Colin
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Post by cso on Jan 11, 2010 12:57:18 GMT
I'm guessing on most other lines (from experience) it's not as much of an issue, but with the Met line in general having little to no passenger announcements, it's (slightly) more of an issue to people not familiar with the service...
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Post by cso on Jan 11, 2010 12:02:23 GMT
Spotted this morning that my train on the Uxbridge branch, City Bound was (according to it's FRONT destination board) heading to Watford...
Now thankfully, I travel the underground enough to know that this was not the case, but other people may not have realised, as the only place an announcement about hte train destination was made was at Harrow on the Hill.
Would the driver have been told that his destination board was wrong?
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Post by cso on Jan 1, 2010 22:47:39 GMT
Within tube stations, each platform seems to display the Roundel with a station name, usually quite large...
Does anyone know if DLR ones have the same?
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Post by cso on Dec 26, 2009 14:59:07 GMT
Looks like today has been a bit of a problem for the Circle and H&C line with Servere delays due to power problems at Barking...
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Post by cso on Dec 22, 2009 14:27:05 GMT
What's the point in having one then, if no one will implement it?
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Post by cso on Dec 14, 2009 17:13:18 GMT
Joking aside, it's not that we deliberately try to mess people around but detraining at Harrow and sending a train off to depot eases the bottleneck from Wembley Park to Baker Street. A five minute delay and change of train at Harrow, could save you 15 minutes in the long run. Yeah, I appreciate that now as you've answered that on the other thread I started... Will wait and see if others know if the timetable is available
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Post by cso on Dec 14, 2009 16:41:55 GMT
Done... as long as it also tells me when my train is going to terminate at Harrow instead of going to (at least) Baker Street
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Post by cso on Dec 14, 2009 16:32:27 GMT
Can passengers obtain a copy of the Met Timetable? If so where can it be obtained from?
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Post by cso on Dec 11, 2009 11:58:03 GMT
Jumped on a picadilly line Service this morning, and it definitely looks like the signs have been done on the cheap - as the people that have updated the line diagram in the train I was on apparently forgot to stick the entire sign on as all the ones I could see were peeling off at both corners!
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