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Post by SE13 on Mar 27, 2008 18:42:43 GMT
It's not anything to do with interchanges........
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Post by mrfs42 on Mar 27, 2008 19:08:28 GMT
Further possibilities:
Surrey Quays/Docks was never served by 'Standard' stock.
All other stations have had their platforms rebuilt or extended bar Surrey Quays.
St. Johns Wood has never had a goods siding or yard.
Surrey Quays is the only one with a staggered pair of platforms.
Finsbury Park is the only one with platforms on different levels.
I don't think it is anything to do with the rebranding of the Northern City Line to the Highbury branch without a change of ownership, because the same has happened with the East London line - which was Met. No. 3 section (City Widened Lines was Met. No. 4) and then became the East London Line without a change of ownership.
Surrey Quays is the only one with a skew bridge.
I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel here!
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Post by Chris M on Mar 27, 2008 19:10:26 GMT
I'd stop scraping that barrel if I were you, you're further away from the answer than you were!
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Post by mrfs42 on Mar 27, 2008 19:16:57 GMT
Ok then, St Johns Wood was the only station out of the four to be electrified from opening.  |
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Post by Colin D on Mar 27, 2008 19:17:50 GMT
Surrey Quays is the only station south of the Thames
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Post by mrfs42 on Mar 27, 2008 19:21:35 GMT
I think you've got it.
I'm absolutely rubbish on London Above.
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Post by Chris M on Mar 27, 2008 19:47:24 GMT
While it's true that SQ is the only station of the four south of the river, that isn't the answer I'm looking for. You were closer yesterday
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Post by danielfigfoz on Mar 27, 2008 20:26:15 GMT
D- Finsbury Park for being a National Rail staiton?
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Post by Rich32 on Mar 27, 2008 20:35:38 GMT
Finsbury Park doesn't have UTS gates - or am I joining mrfs42 in scraping the barrel here?
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Post by suncloud on Mar 27, 2008 20:45:49 GMT
Is it something to do with ownership/building of the stations? That seems to be what you're hinting at. Like St Johns Wood is the only station to be opened by LU as opposed to one of it's predecessors.
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Post by Chris M on Mar 27, 2008 21:33:40 GMT
rich - you're scraping a different, but equally wrong, barrel.
suncloud - you're in the right barrel
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Post by Rich32 on Mar 27, 2008 22:12:40 GMT
 Gah! I know I'll kick myself when you give the answer, but another possible theory - Surrey Quays is the odd one out as it is/was an SSL station and all the others are 'tube' line stations.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2008 22:35:45 GMT
Finsbury Park may be the only LU station served solely by LU trains that isn't owned by LU - AFAIK the upper half of the station is owned by Network Rail, as a direct result of the fact that the GNR wasn't willing to grant wayleaves to the GNP&BR to build there and said that it would build the station itself.
Either that or it's the only deep-level tube station that is only reachable via stairs (as opposed to lifts or escalators).
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Post by Chris M on Mar 27, 2008 23:10:52 GMT
Good answers, but not what I'm after.
I will say that Surrey Quays is the odd one out, but I'm not yet going to say why.
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Post by mrfs42 on Mar 27, 2008 23:27:02 GMT
I'm now stumped - as I've said before I'm rubbish on London Above - London Below and the Floating Market are more my cup of tea.
<thinks>
Hmmm. GLC funding....
Hmmm. Station reconstruction........
No escalators or lifts?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2008 0:11:52 GMT
- Sudbury Town was opened by the District Line and was rebuilt by LT for the hand over to the Piccadilly.
- St John's Wood was originally on the Met and was rebuilt for the Bakerloo and transferred to the Jubilee. The station was rebuilt by LT for the Stanmore extension.
- Finsbury Park used to be Northern Line and was rebuilt by LT for the Victoria.
Surrey Quays' surface building of station rebuilt 1979-1982 and subsequently renamed but did not change line ownership. Is the link that it will be developed for transfer to NR rather than transfer to another LU line? |
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Post by Chris M on Mar 28, 2008 1:32:49 GMT
- Sudbury Town was opened by the District Line and was rebuilt by LT for the hand over to the Piccadilly.
- St John's Wood was originally on the Met and was rebuilt for the Bakerloo and transferred to the Jubilee. The station was rebuilt by LT for the Stanmore extension.
- Finsbury Park used to be Northern Line and was rebuilt by LT for the Victoria.
Surrey Quays' surface building of station rebuilt 1979-1982 and subsequently renamed but did not change line ownership. Is the link that it will be developed for transfer to NR rather than transfer to another LU line? Almost spot on! "Surrey Quays is the odd one out, because there London Overground will replace the East London Line, at the others stations one Underground line replaced another - The Piccadilly replaced the District at Sudbury Town, the Jubillee replaced the Bakerloo at Swiss Cottage and the Victoria replaced the Northern at Finsbury Park." |
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Gah! I know I'll kick myself when you give the answer, but another possible theory - Surrey Quays is the odd one out as it is/was an SSL station and all the others are 'tube' line stations. 
