londoner
thinking on '73 stock
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Post by londoner on Jun 19, 2019 12:35:43 GMT
I was looking at the TFL data (free and publically available online at the link below) and noticed that most trains are given a direction.
https://api.tfl.gov.uk/swagger/ui/index.html?url=/swagger/docs/v1#!/Line/Line_Arrivals
If the trains are heading out of London they are labelled "inbound", i.e. Baker Street to Wembley. If the trains are heading into central London i.e. Uxbridge to King's Cross, they are labelled as "outbound". However, there are some trains where this "direction" is not listed at all. This is noticeable, for example, on trains going into London along the Uxbridge branch of the Piccadilly line. Can anyone explain why this may be?
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Post by zbang on Jun 20, 2019 2:34:27 GMT
So.... the obvious directions are reversed?
The less-clueful person here asks- wouldn't it make more sense to label them with cardinal direction of travel (I thought they were)? Or is this a legacy of the original lines? (I still have trouble with the up/down directions of lines.)
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Post by brigham on Jun 20, 2019 8:05:27 GMT
So.... the obvious directions are reversed? ... A bit like 'Hard a' Starboard'.
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