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Post by happybunny on Jul 13, 2009 19:30:29 GMT
From TfL website at 2029 :
"Suspended between Turnham Green and Richmond due to signal failure at Ealing Common with minor delays occurring on the rest of the line due to an earlier signal failure at Barking."
I have tried and tried looking for a reason they would suspend the Richmond branch, due to signal failure at Ealing Common.. but can't think of anything!
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Post by Ben on Jul 13, 2009 19:31:52 GMT
Blocked a train or 5 coming out of the depot? Clutching at straws there...
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Post by citysig on Jul 13, 2009 19:50:18 GMT
As at now (2047 ish) they have amended it to "Suspended Ealing Broadway to Turnham Green due to a signal failure at Ealing Common." Believable now, but nothing would surprise me with those District Line chaps  ;D |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2009 9:32:32 GMT
Some of the most ridiculous message are on the radio, on 'Smooth' the other day it was announced that the Jubilee Line was suspended between Acton Town and Uxbridge and on another occasion it was announced that "the Hammersmith line is suspended between x and y (I can't remember the stations) and this has resulted in delays on the City line". Priceless!
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Post by citysig on Jul 16, 2009 8:18:39 GMT
the Hammersmith line is suspended between x and y (I can't remember the stations) and this has resulted in delays on the City line". Priceless! This one is not so hard to believe. Let's say the H&C is suspended between Edgware Road and Hammersmith. The trains that would have gone that way now need to be stabled / diverted etc. If it's during the peak, then these additional moves very quickly begin to impact on Circle Line services. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2009 10:29:12 GMT
As at now (2047 ish) they have amended it to "Suspended Ealing Broadway to Turnham Green due to a signal failure at Ealing Common." Believable now, but nothing would surprise me with those District Line chaps ;D Oi!!!! |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2009 10:40:50 GMT
My point was about the clueless way it was read out, the presenter obviously thought the Hammersmith and the City were two seperate lines ;D the Hammersmith line is suspended between x and y (I can't remember the stations) and this has resulted in delays on the City line". Priceless! This one is not so hard to believe. Let's say the H&C is suspended between Edgware Road and Hammersmith. The trains that would have gone that way now need to be stabled / diverted etc. If it's during the peak, then these additional moves very quickly begin to impact on Circle Line services. |
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Post by citysig on Jul 16, 2009 20:29:41 GMT
Yes?  ;D ;D Ok chaps and chapesses ;D My point was about the clueless way it was read out, the presenter obviously thought the Hammersmith and the City were two seperate lines ;D Having re-read your original post (properly, without substituting the word "city" for "circle") I now see what you mean. Yes priceless ;D |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2009 11:14:18 GMT
(...)the Hammersmith line is suspended between x and y (I can't remember the stations) and this has resulted in delays on the City line". Priceless! Hello, Could the announcer have meant that the line was suspended between x and y towards Hammersmith and that it had consequences on the traffic towards the City ? |
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Post by happybunny on Jul 17, 2009 13:50:33 GMT
I don't think so. You only have to listen to a few of those radio travel shows, or even the local news ones, to realise these people must NEVER take the tube ! (especially the BBC ones who probably go around in black cabs (on expenses of course!))
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Post by Chris M on Jul 17, 2009 17:05:20 GMT
Certainly with the BBC local radio programs you will find the travel presenter is the same for several regions - I know there is one chap who I've heard doing the slots for Somerset, Bristol, Wales, Gloucestershire, Hereford & Worcester and Wiltshire. If the same is true for the southeast then the presenter could be based nowhere near London.
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jul 17, 2009 18:48:45 GMT
As well as having separate Hammersmith and City lines, I've heard them spout nonsense like delays between Totteridge and Whetstone.
They do it on the roads too - "delays on the M4 between junctions 8 and 9" (look at it on the map to see why that's wrong!)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2009 17:57:35 GMT
My hunch was right. No Junction 8.
Now, can anybody enlighten me as to why that is the case?
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Post by Chris M on Jul 20, 2009 18:43:32 GMT
There is a junction 8 - it is the same junction as 9, so it is called Junction 8/9. As for why, basically when the motorway was being constructed junction 9 was where 8/9 is now and junction 8 was at the end of the spur that runs northeast from the present 8/9 (I can't remember the road number). When they built the next section east the join was at junction 9 not the end of the previous section. This is all from memory but I'm fairly sure it's right. If you want to check or know more I recommend looking at the M4 entry in the motorway database at www.cbrd.co.uk |
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jul 20, 2009 19:40:52 GMT
There is a junction 8 - it is the same junction as 9, so it is called Junction 8/9. As for why, basically when the motorway was being constructed junction 9 was where 8/9 is now and junction 8 was at the end of the spur that runs northeast from the present 8/9 (I can't remember the road number). When they built the next section east the join was at junction 9 not the end of the previous section. This is all from memory but I'm fairly sure it's right. If you want to check or know more I recommend looking at the M4 entry in the motorway database at www.cbrd.co.ukClose, but not quite. At the risk of serious thread drift, the original route of the M4 was to go round the north side of Reading, and followed what is now the A404(M) to the junction with the A4. Junction 8 was a little to the east of the present 8/9, junction 9 was what is now J9a on the A404(M). Change of plan, and the M4 was instead routed to the south of Reading, leaving the original terminus on the end of a spur (think of Aldwych and the GN&PR). The point of divergence of the new and old routes was very close to J8 - too close - so it was closed and a new spur (A308(M) - the shortest motorway in the UK) was built to restore access to Maidenhead and Bray from the M4. As the diverge point is the point where traffic for both the original Junctions 8 and 9 now leaves the main line, it was numbered 8/9 |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2009 21:00:33 GMT
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Post by mrfs42 on Jul 20, 2009 22:57:40 GMT
There is a junction 8 - it is the same junction as 9, so it is called Junction 8/9. As for why, basically when the motorway was being constructed junction 9 was where 8/9 is now and junction 8 was at the end of the spur that runs northeast from the present 8/9 (I can't remember the road number). When they built the next section east the join was at junction 9 not the end of the previous section. This is all from memory but I'm fairly sure it's right. If you want to check or know more I recommend looking at the M4 entry in the motorway database at www.cbrd.co.ukClose, but not quite. At the risk of serious thread drift, the original route of the M4 was to go round the north side of Reading, and followed what is now the A404(M) to the junction with the A4. Junction 8 was a little to the east of the present 8/9, junction 9 was what is now J9a on the A404(M). Change of plan, and the M4 was instead routed to the south of Reading, leaving the original terminus on the end of a spur (think of Aldwych and the GN&PR). The point of divergence of the new and old routes was very close to J8 - too close - so it was closed and a new spur (A308(M) - the shortest motorway in the UK) was built to restore access to Maidenhead and Bray from the M4. As the diverge point is the point where traffic for both the original Junctions 8 and 9 now leaves the main line, it was numbered 8/9 Good souls - should we take a sabre to this thread? ;D |
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Post by Ben on Jul 20, 2009 23:01:01 GMT
oooohh **groan** I did actually lol though!  XD |
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