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Post by castlebar on Aug 24, 2011 16:37:59 GMT
Northfields & S Ealing are not quite as close as they seem because from the respective station entrances, the platforms both point towards each other. If you measured the actual station entrances as the measuring point, it would not seem to be such. IF S. Ealing platforms pointed towards Acton and Northfields patforms pointed towards Boston Manor, then the distances would seem quite normal.
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Post by castlebar on Aug 18, 2011 19:46:01 GMT
If Easyjet can get away with calling Dijon "Paris South", so, LU can get away with calling Northwood "Watford South"
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Post by castlebar on Aug 18, 2011 19:04:01 GMT
Are these new rails being installed because the old ones are worn out or merely for policy reasons?
Yes, Cameron likes a nice shiny new things
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Post by castlebar on Aug 18, 2011 18:32:33 GMT
You said "Who knows what the future holds..." but I do
HS2 (otherwise known as 'Cameron's folly' will be way over budget, and will only be half built. Yes, that's the easiest prediction I've ever made.
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Post by castlebar on Aug 16, 2011 8:00:10 GMT
Northfields could become "North Brentford".
Re-naming one station opens a can of worms. (I still have problems with Walham Green becoming something else)
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Post by castlebar on Aug 13, 2011 11:07:59 GMT
Perhaps I should start a new thread, but there is common ground with this one.
I now live in Arundel in W Sussex. Many of us want to link the Arun Valley line with the Coastway line in order that trains coming down the Arun Valley route can turn east towards Worthing, Hove & Brighton.
ONLY 330 metres of track would be required (plus double junctions and signalling of course), but only one landowner is involved and no buildings would be demolished for this short new-build, (first discussed 60 years ago when the population down here was a fraction of what it is now). We also want the Dorking-Horsham services extended down here, and then use the link.
If F.C.C. took this on, they would be able to run another loop service via St Pancras Int., "the Arundel chord" and back up to London.
Everyone seems to want this (including our M.P.) except Southern, and it is understood that it would be because they could lose their monopoly on the Arun Valley Line where at the moment, they shove everything through the Gatwick bottleneck. Cost has been estimated at just £19 Million, but we are told there is no money, but there is more than 100 times as much available to build HS2. As 2 weeks ago there were no through Brighton - London direct services because of the problems at S Croydon, this would have meant a diversionary route was immediately available for London commuters.
Answers/suggestions please.
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Post by castlebar on Aug 13, 2011 7:45:39 GMT
O K. Is there a windmill at High Roding? If so, that's my answer
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Post by castlebar on Aug 12, 2011 18:42:56 GMT
Is the windmill at HIGH Salvington, just north of Worthing??
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Post by castlebar on Aug 12, 2011 16:31:45 GMT
Agree with Stonesfan who got it first. D = Dorchester HIGH Street
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Post by castlebar on Aug 11, 2011 19:28:58 GMT
A fare dodger ??
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Post by castlebar on Aug 11, 2011 19:23:03 GMT
I'd publicly like to thank TRC666 for posting a link to, and thus introducing me to, the cartometro map site
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Post by castlebar on Aug 10, 2011 19:08:10 GMT
Thank you for posting the links to the timetables
I am pleasantly surprised to see the early Rickmansworth/Croxley chord workings on there. 60 years ago, any bizarre oddball workings tended not to be publicised in the timetables, and the public were "discouraged" from using them - the Claphan Junc - Olympia workings for example were meant for "Post Office staff only", so they ran emptier than was necessary.
Good to see a bit of joined up thinking.
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Post by castlebar on Aug 10, 2011 9:45:33 GMT
"Can I politely suggest you wait & see what our refurb entails first...... "
Is it a 'refurb' or a 'refresh'?
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Post by castlebar on Aug 10, 2011 8:35:03 GMT
Reading knap's message timed at 9.23, it does seem to give the impression that not only does the right hand not know what the left hand is doing, but some fingers do not even know what other fingers on the same hand are doing. No wonder some people still prefer to drive. Surely, it is not rocket science required for this to be sorted out? Where is the cause of problem? Surely not staff shortage these days?
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Post by castlebar on Aug 9, 2011 14:09:02 GMT
......and of course Greenford which includes a triangular junction.
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Post by castlebar on Aug 9, 2011 14:07:49 GMT
On "Southern", the stretch from around Amberley and through Pulborough is semaphore towards Billingshurst.
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Post by castlebar on Aug 9, 2011 12:44:46 GMT
@ Oracle, yes it always looked rusty, but less rusty from BR to LT than the other way. From "track rust", I assumed LMR engines got to Feltham via a different route (Kew Junction?), as I saw several heading north towards Gunnersbury until about 1960, but never one in the Kew > Richmond direction.
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Post by castlebar on Aug 8, 2011 17:45:56 GMT
Shoreham- Steyning-Southwater-Horsham
Then next line for electrification before WWII
Also there is talk of re-opening Guildford-Cranleigh section of the Horsham-Guildford
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Post by castlebar on Aug 5, 2011 11:24:09 GMT
@ abe
And surely the reason the Ongar branch shut was Essex's C.C.'s absolute refusal to make any contribution at all. With new housing projects, and a parkway for M11/M25 there is no doubt that keeping it open to North Weald would have been reasonable. It always comes down to money. I think the Met lines outside the GLC area was always going to be different as lots of votes would have been lost. So the result was inevitably going to be keeping it open but with a much higher "passenger contribution" per mile. (Few votes from Blake Hall)
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Post by castlebar on Aug 5, 2011 10:18:54 GMT
@ cso
Perhaps its the latest RIPAS idea for Crossrail services to begin
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Post by castlebar on Aug 5, 2011 8:57:02 GMT
Definitely Western signals. Station sign will probably say "junction for...."
St Erth or Liskeard?
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Post by castlebar on Aug 5, 2011 8:34:54 GMT
Can't be Greenford as: marker for 4/5 car trains (Greenford line is 2 car) and semaphore arms are level whereas two arms at different levels??. Ditto South Greenford and which was also otherwise a contender.
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Post by castlebar on Aug 4, 2011 13:44:54 GMT
Hi Matt
One idea l heard was to run trains from Ealing around the Circle anti-clockwise back to Ealing. (ditto Richmond-Ricmond). Trains from Upminster to run around the circle clockwise back to Upminster. The more l think of that it could be useful "outside the box" thinking. Upminster - Ealing peak hour extras. You wouldn't need a circle line at all then, except as a supplement. Wimb stock runs to Edgware Road, with High St to Olympia extras. Let's discuss
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Post by castlebar on Aug 4, 2011 11:16:47 GMT
I think one of the main issues is the amount of "subsidy" required from the County Councils involved. Then you get a Bromley type "Fares Fare' situation where peopelat one end of a county, say Bucks, refuse to pay any subsidy for those boarding trains in Amersham. I seem to remember the Ongar branch closure was in Part because of Essex C.C.'s refusal to kick any subsidy over to LT for supporting it.
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Post by castlebar on Aug 1, 2011 11:26:26 GMT
I bet a quango already has their eyes on it.
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Post by castlebar on Aug 1, 2011 10:37:30 GMT
"BBC Journalists can also use Wood Lane to Great Portland Street"
They can but they won't > > > they use taxis.
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Post by castlebar on Jul 31, 2011 18:53:01 GMT
Have discovered today that Lydd Ferryfield Airport down near Romney Marsh has been re-named "London Ashford International (Ferryfield)" with international airport code LYX. Somehow, under the circumstances, l don't think it possible that all "London" airports are going to get connected to the LUL or DLR network.
When you consider how long it took Heathrow to get linked up to LUL which was a short extension from Hounslow West, and the fact that there is still no rail connection to Luton, you do get the feeling that one set of planners don't really know what any other set of planners are doing sometimes.
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Post by castlebar on Jul 30, 2011 8:55:22 GMT
Inside the Capital Transport book, "London Transport Services Vehicles, a few (3 or 4) interesting photos exist from the time when this was the "Works & Building Dept" base
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Post by castlebar on Jul 29, 2011 17:10:12 GMT
@ mappman
"LO doesn't have to swallow up every franchise around the vicinity of Greater London does it? - And besides, Stansted and Gatwick are hardly 'in London'. "
No, but they do now all call themselves "London something", e.g. "London Stansted". I think Luton is now 'London Luton' and I recently saw a reference to 'London Biggin Hill'. It's only a matter of time before a politician who has some of our money to play with, finds a map and some coloured pens, then starts drawing wiggly lines all over the map. That's allegedly how Brunel started it all.
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Post by castlebar on Jul 29, 2011 10:52:49 GMT
Is Clarkson trying to be Branson MkII and applying for a rail franchise??
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