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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2012 19:10:30 GMT
Been following this thread for a while, and all the talk of the A Stock I have finally given in and will be heading out to grab some pictures. Can anyone recommend anywhere that isn't too far from a station and is quite easy to reach?
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Post by 21146 on Sept 23, 2012 19:22:02 GMT
Been following this thread for a while, and all the talk of the A Stock I have finally given in and will be heading out to grab some pictures. Can anyone recommend anywhere that isn't too far from a station and is quite easy to reach? Cheers Lydford Road overbridge south of Willesden Green is good for views in both directions. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2012 21:51:18 GMT
The last time I went there the overbridge immediatly north of Rickmansworth is ok too.
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Post by dennisc on Sept 23, 2012 23:31:18 GMT
When LTM call you back Dennis perhaps it will be to tell you that we, the 400, will have to queue for a Portaloo somewhere outside the station that has been put in place for workers on the Crossrail project !!!  I fear there may be some truth in that. LTM sent me an e mail late Friday with the subject title (Farewell to the A stock) but the message was blank. Oh well, I will have one more go Monday morning and will post here what they had to say. |
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Post by dennisc on Sept 24, 2012 10:52:55 GMT
IT IS OFFICIAL. LTM have just called me back to say they were misinformed and there are no toilets in Moorgate Station. Seems if you need to go before the train leaves there is a McDonald's close by. That should increase their trade.  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2012 12:04:24 GMT
IT IS OFFICIAL. LTM have just called me back to say they were misinformed and there are no toilets in Moorgate Station. Seems if you need to go before the train leaves there is a McDonald's close by. That should increase their trade. So LTM is not taking he P then? Go for a MacyP instead ;D XF |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2012 8:43:43 GMT
This is looking a bit dicy. My wife (who bought me the tickets as a surprise - and ours still haven't showed up yet) is 23 weeks pregnant. Can any policemen on the tour please bring their helmets just in case!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2012 9:03:19 GMT
I also heard that the toilets at Liverpool Street are shut for up to 4 weekends now!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2012 20:08:05 GMT
I also heard that the toilets at Liverpool Street are shut for up to 4 weekends now! Go to the one in McDonalds (literally directly above the LU ticket hall concourse type thing) its always open when McDonalds is open and it will save you 30p. |
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Post by superteacher on Sept 25, 2012 20:15:47 GMT
I also heard that the toilets at Liverpool Street are shut for up to 4 weekends now! Go to the one in McDonalds (literally directly above the LU ticket hall concourse type thing) its always open when McDonalds is open and it will save you 30p. Yes, that's saved me a few 30p's too! They sell burgers too, apparently. ;D ;D |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2012 20:31:04 GMT
Go to the one in McDonalds (literally directly above the LU ticket hall concourse type thing) its always open when McDonalds is open and it will save you 30p. Yes, that's saved me a few 30p's too! They sell burgers too, apparently. ;D ;D Apparently so! Unfortunately my vounchers that come in the Metro expired on Sunday, I had tonnes of them if they were in date I would have actually gone down my carriage handing them out! |
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Post by metrider on Sept 25, 2012 21:09:51 GMT
... Yes, that's saved me a few 30p's too! They sell burgers too, apparently. ;D ;D But do they prepare customer supplied Custard??!!  (what a great thread this is!) |
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Post by rincew1nd on Sept 25, 2012 21:11:18 GMT
I doubt it, I don't even think they sell custard containing dishes!
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Post by superteacher on Sept 25, 2012 21:14:52 GMT
I do like their coffee, although was a bit peefed when I went through the drive-thru on the way to school this morning to be told that the coffee machine was broken!
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Post by dangeruxb on Sept 26, 2012 9:50:23 GMT
Ok, so the last Service A Stock is running as T412 today. Does anybody know the full workings of this today please?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2012 10:29:24 GMT
Timing details of T412 today as per earlier posts:
Wednesday 26 September train 412
07.52 Neasden dt - Wembley Park pfm 1 08.01
08.02 Wembley Park - Watford 08.30
08.40 Watford - Baker Street pfm 1 09.22
09.28 Baker Street - Amersham 10.26
10.47 Amersham - Aldgate 11.59
12.11 Aldgate - Amersham 13.26
13.47 Amersham - Aldgate 14.59
15.11 Aldgate - Amersham 16.26
16.46 Amersham - Aldgate 18.01
18.08 Aldgate - Watford 19.07
19.44 Harrow-on-the-Hill - Neasden 19.58
I shall be leaving home in half an hour to ride it and, out again tonight at Watford, hope this helps you
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2012 10:49:51 GMT
09.28 from Baker Street ran fast from Harrow and I think it had run fast from Finchley Road although it seemed to be on schedule and waited around at both Harrow and Moor Park to keep the slow train timings. Someone of the site had said it was scheduled to be a slow train. Nice to get a fast ride to Amersham as I commuted there for nearly 20 years. The 10.47 return from Amersham was all stations. Cars 5063 and 5034 at each end.
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Post by dangeruxb on Sept 26, 2012 11:10:47 GMT
Timing details of T412 today as per earlier posts: Wednesday 26 September train 412 07.52 Neasden dt - Wembley Park pfm 1 08.01 08.02 Wembley Park - Watford 08.30 08.40 Watford - Baker Street pfm 1 09.22 09.28 Baker Street - Amersham 10.26 10.47 Amersham - Aldgate 11.59 12.11 Aldgate - Amersham 13.26 13.47 Amersham - Aldgate 14.59 15.11 Aldgate - Amersham 16.26 16.46 Amersham - Aldgate 18.01 18.08 Aldgate - Watford 19.07 19.44 Harrow-on-the-Hill - Neasden 19.58 I shall be leaving home in half an hour to ride it and, out again tonight at Watford, hope this helps you thanks for this, appreciated |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2012 14:11:44 GMT
Have just got in from riding the last A Stock, for anyone intending to ride this afternoon, it left Amersham on time at 13.47 and was still ok when I alighted at Moor Park at 14.05.
Hopefully it is still running to schedule as I will be back at Watford later
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2012 15:16:28 GMT
The 10:47 Amersham to Aldgate approaching Willesden Green  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2012 16:35:07 GMT
The 10:47 Amersham to Aldgate approaching Willesden Green Whatever happened to single manning on the Underground? Silly me that's additional weight in the cab for adhesion trials! ;D XF |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2012 17:04:51 GMT
Is on the London Tonight News at 18:00 -in the headlines!
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Post by norbitonflyer on Sept 26, 2012 19:51:31 GMT
Took the last out of Aldgate. It was pretty full, especially as (much to some "normal"s surprise), hardly anyone got off gthe train at Aldgate! Only went as far as Wembley Park (I have other stuff to do this evening) but everyone seemed in good spirits. I was in the leading car - didn't see any custard though.
I would probably have got home more quickly if I'd stayed on to Harrow as, being a stranger in those parts, I managed to get on the wrong train to go back south and ended up in Kingsbury!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2012 20:22:55 GMT
The incoming train was formally announced at Farringdon 'the last Metropolitan Line A stock train to Aldgate will be the second train on platform 1' The remainder of today's pictures are here smu.gs/QF84jd |
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Post by Antje on Sept 26, 2012 20:27:17 GMT
Took the last out of Aldgate. It was pretty full, especially as (much to some "normal"s surprise), hardly anyone got off gthe train at Aldgate! Only went as far as Wembley Park (I have other stuff to do this evening) but everyone seemed in good spirits. I was in the leading car - didn't see any custard though. I would probably have got home more quickly if I'd stayed on to Harrow as, being a stranger in those parts, I managed to get on the wrong train to go back south and ended up in Kingsbury! For me, just the usual Starbucks Chocolate Cream Frappuccino. Not sure about posting the picture of the blue-birds here even though its safe for work yet it has a romance'y feel to it. |
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Post by version3point1 on Sept 26, 2012 22:20:58 GMT
Whatever happened to single manning on the Underground? Silly me that's additional weight in the cab for adhesion trials! ;D We were just the invisible entourage to stop the poor man on the handle from getting seriously mobbed (and near pushed over as a whole load of enthusiasts decided to pile past us and the fixed barriers at Aldgate when we were changing ends – seriously, people). As it happens though, my invisibility cloak wasn't working.  Never fear however, for my weight is negligible... compared to all you lot sat behind us! (Also - whilst I'm here - I had quite a few people come up to me today to ask if I am the "3.1", but then they never introduce themselves or give me half a chance to ask who they are! PMs from those who are guilty! Including some chap who boarded my train at Northfields, walked up to the front to see if it was me, and then alighted at Hounslow East during the LTM Depot's last Open Weekend! Show yourselves!) |
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Post by Antje on Sept 26, 2012 22:49:10 GMT
I shudder to think what Saturday would be like... remember what happened on the night of the last tram on 6th July 1952?
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Post by version3point1 on Sept 26, 2012 23:12:58 GMT
I cannot condone trespassing, but there was an awful lot of it going on! Aldgate was bad enough, but the folks going off down the ramp at Amersham, creeping closer and closer to track level when the train had the route cleared to shunt into the sidings...! *sigh* And there always has to be this scrum-like-frenzy once one person decides to be a hero and plough past a barrier! (And then this is when I wish they'd at least do one "staff train" trip!)I'm afraid I will have to Google this incident you speak of. It's before my time. |
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Post by causton on Sept 26, 2012 23:53:47 GMT
I cannot condone trespassing, but there was an awful lot of it going on! Aldgate was bad enough, but the folks going off down the ramp at Amersham, creeping closer and closer to track level when the train had the route cleared to shunt into the sidings...! *sigh* And there always has to be this scrum-like-frenzy once one person decides to be a hero and plough past a barrier! (And then this is when I wish they'd at least do one "staff train" trip!)I'm afraid I will have to Google this incident you speak of. It's before my time. I was amused at the atmosphere in the first carriage, from confused elderly women (I just wanted to get home and I'm involved in this? Wow!) to people cheering at all the whistles, to singsongs. However, as the evening wore on I was not impressed with some of the behaviour. I was disappointed at the people climbing on the platform equipment and going past the barriers at Harrow - can't have imagined it was very nice for the person who was hurled abuse at for detraining it! (not sure if it was the driver or not) Overall, I think 99% of people were well mannered, in high spirits, and didn't mind the crowding! |
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Post by cso on Sept 27, 2012 7:29:49 GMT
The problem is, the 1% are those that mean that TFL may reconsider doing these types of things though... especially if they put themselves / others in danger on what is, after all, an operational railway at the time. I had hoped to get out for this, but I unfortunately forgot about it when I agreed to work last night |
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