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Post by Dstock7080 on Jun 4, 2015 12:00:33 GMT
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Post by domh245 on Jun 4, 2015 16:26:52 GMT
Now just the equally big task of laying track, wiring it, putting in the signalling systems, radios, lights, fitting out the stations etc. But progress has been made!
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Post by flippyff on Jun 5, 2015 14:43:44 GMT
Now just the equally big task of laying track, wiring it, putting in the signalling systems, radios, lights, fitting out the stations etc. But progress has been made! And arranging the first rail replacement bus service! ;-) |
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Post by Chris M on Jun 5, 2015 15:53:48 GMT
Well the first post-privatisation train was a bus so it has precedent!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2015 22:34:51 GMT
Actually, aiui, finished last month but waiting for the dubious publicity of PM and Mayor to take credit. Now if someone would just gets some trains running ...
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Post by class411 on Jun 9, 2015 8:30:58 GMT
Now just the equally big task of laying track, wiring it, putting in the signalling systems, radios, lights, fitting out the stations etc. But progress has been made! And arranging the first rail replacement bus service! ;-) This forum needs a 'Like this post' button! |
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Post by whistlekiller2000 on Jun 9, 2015 9:51:40 GMT
And arranging the first rail replacement bus service! ;-) This forum needs a 'Like this post' button! The thumbs up button next to the quote button on the upper right of each post does that. I've just "Liked" your post as a demonstration of its immense power!  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2015 20:38:15 GMT
This forum needs a 'Like this post' button! The thumbs up button next to the quote button on the upper right of each post does that. I've just "Liked" your post as a demonstration of its immense power! But is it wise? What if such enormous power were to fall into the wrong hands? Or what if it should corrupt even the great and the good of DD? |
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Post by stapler on Jun 9, 2015 20:52:58 GMT
Did you know Crossrail is actually up and running now? I received a receipt from Stratford NR ticket office (now run by TFL Rail) which reads
"Thank you for travelling with Crossrail".
Also new style tickets on NR stock, but with the roundel let in, in lime green
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Post by whistlekiller2000 on Jun 11, 2015 10:55:15 GMT
The thumbs up button next to the quote button on the upper right of each post does that. I've just "Liked" your post as a demonstration of its immense power! But is it wise? What if such enormous power were to fall into the wrong hands? Or what if it should corrupt even the great and the good of DD? I think you may be getting the Like button muddled up with a B61-12 thermonuclear weapon there tut..... |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2015 13:51:47 GMT
But is it wise? What if such enormous power were to fall into the wrong hands? Or what if it should corrupt even the great and the good of DD? I think you may be getting the Like button muddled up with a B61-12 thermonuclear weapon there tut..... To be fair, I sometimes think we could do with one of them as well...Maybe for forum staff only? |
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Post by whistlekiller2000 on Jun 11, 2015 14:01:37 GMT
I think you may be getting the Like button muddled up with a B61-12 thermonuclear weapon there tut..... To be fair, I sometimes think we could do with one of them as well...Maybe for forum staff only? Are you suggesting a preemptive strike on the forum staff now tut? I must say I'd always had you down as a rather peaceful young man, not a megalomaniac nuke chucker! With a vague attempt to get back on topic, nuclear devices have been used in civil engineering projects, namely canal building in the former Soviet Union many years ago. |
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Post by kesmet on Jun 11, 2015 18:56:50 GMT
With a vague attempt to get back on topic, nuclear devices have been used in civil engineering projects, namely canal building in the former Soviet Union many years ago. And indeed, there was a proposal (although I have no idea how serious, nor do I have references) for the US to build it's own cross-continental shipping canal to rival the Panama canal. I think, though, that such devices would be unlikely to generate the tightly controlled dimension tunnels needed for threading something like Crossrail through a city like London without disrupting (or, dare I say, destroying!) existing infrastructure. With the tunnelling work completed on Crossrail, does that also mean that all of the necessary shafts - station and ventilation - have been completed as well, or are any of those still to be built (or, rather, removed)? |
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Post by Chris M on Jun 11, 2015 23:15:16 GMT
Blasting (although with conventional rather than nuclear explosives) is used in the construction of metro tunnels, e.g. New York and Stockholm I think. However there the medium being tunnelled through is bedrock, rather than the clay and waterlogged sand we have in London.
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