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Post by londonstuff on Jan 28, 2019 22:12:48 GMT
Not *quite* on topic but if I go up there for a ride, are there any stations between the two termini of any architectural note or anything significant near any stations?
(If it turns into a long discussion or threatens to derail the original purpose of this thread, I'll create a new thread)
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Post by londonstuff on Jan 9, 2019 13:22:48 GMT
I quite like it but I bet it stays than shiny for about ten minutes!
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Post by londonstuff on Jan 6, 2019 23:47:47 GMT
This was an amazing altered image, Chris.
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Post by londonstuff on Jan 6, 2019 13:17:47 GMT
Good photos waysider , it’s a nice station, full of interesting touches. I went there in the summer and luckily caught it on a sunny day. Another example of the regeneration of a whole area that’s changed beyond all recognition in the past twenty years. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bj19XVkgc7y
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Post by londonstuff on Jan 3, 2019 10:56:56 GMT
Not the most factual thread on this forum I know but I personally find Wapping Station at night, one of the most appealing on the whole system...
Which is funny, really, because right above the station entrance, in great big, scary, bright orange letters, is a name that looks really rather like
WARNING
Hahaha. I know what you mean. It's years since I've been there: the last time was when I walked through the tunnel to Rotherhithe before the conversion to the Overground was complete. I wasn't sure about the design of the stations and the orange lettering then but it's stood the test of time pretty well. Hackney Wick, the rebuilt version, which continues the theme of big orange lettering is a masterpiece (though I did see it on a sunny day in summer).
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Post by londonstuff on Dec 24, 2018 19:33:39 GMT
I would also add my voice in thanks to Chris and the team for everything involved with the quiz. Chris - your inventiveness never ceases to amaze me and thank you for all the time you spend on it.
Maybe next year you could add a discreet
<ahem>
when I get one of my own photographs wrong (again).
All the best to you all.
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Post by londonstuff on Dec 23, 2018 11:00:10 GMT
Looks like Leicester Square to me with the Hippodrome on the left. But then, you know how good I am at the quiz...
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Post by londonstuff on Dec 20, 2018 22:44:16 GMT
Me not captioning a photograph properly - that’s offensive Schönbrunn it is.
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Post by londonstuff on Dec 19, 2018 19:24:21 GMT
That assumes that people would want to go elsewhere. Not everyone who lives and works in London hates it. I was born there and lived my first 22 years there. I didn't hate it then, I don't now, and I don't believe I said that anybody else does, but it would be true to say that I could see a better standard of living (for comparable effort) elsewhere which is why I left. I visit occasionally and have seen nothing but increasing gridlock. It doesn't appeal to me one bit and I do feel for those struggling to make ends meet. I thought you were only 25 now! Totally agree at what you say though as someone who was an import into London about 15 years ago, I still love it here, though it does come at a big cost in terms of time, money and effort. The way that so many people move away when they have a family or long for a quieter pace of life shows that clearly. I assume that’s the same in other big cities though I get the feeling that the Scandinavian countries focus on quality of life a lot more than we do. Zurich, oddly, seems to focus on this a lot too.
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Post by londonstuff on Dec 10, 2018 20:26:01 GMT
Internal 'road-learning' films sometimes turn up. Does anyone know if LT made any? There are definitely ones of the SSL around. Northern and Picc as well; they’re really interesting. Not sure about the other lines. There’s at least one road learning training video on YouTube for Merseyrail which taught me loads of things I didn’t know about my first real metro experience. Plus I haven’t been to Southport since I was about fifteen.
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Post by londonstuff on Dec 6, 2018 9:34:00 GMT
I’ll also discuss with the other staff how we might want to manage the quiz downtime. People before now have just posted their own pshitos, which tended to work well. I might have a go at a few
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Post by londonstuff on Dec 6, 2018 9:31:48 GMT
The regular quiz will run this year until Sunday 23 December and resume on 1 January. The bonus quiz for the meet social is prepared and sent to londonstuff yesterday afternoon but I've not heard from him since his offer above, so if anyone else can act as backup that would be useful. It’s all printed and ready. I won’t have to go back home to pick it up either
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Post by londonstuff on Nov 27, 2018 10:48:22 GMT
Is anyone planning on doing a special Christmas quiz this year? If so just let me know which date you want to start on and I'll do the usual quiz up until then. I know rincew1nd had an idea back in April districtdavesforum.co.uk/post/463502/threadI will be doing a bonus quiz for the Christmas meet social as usual - probably a crossword again if I have time. I'm pretty sure I'll be there so let me know if anything needs printing.
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Post by londonstuff on Nov 19, 2018 23:12:14 GMT
At least you didn't guess the location and get it wrong - more than one person has done that! Move along everyone. Nothing to see here. <whistles>
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Post by londonstuff on Nov 18, 2018 13:20:35 GMT
With apologies for the late start, here is today's single part quesiton. Shall I contact Delay Repay or will the refund for today’s late start be credited automatically? (And on behalf of the Forum, thank you to you and the quiz team as ever for all of your work on the quiz)
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Post by londonstuff on Nov 1, 2018 23:07:04 GMT
Hooray, a new route to that essential part of the transport network, the dangleway! I’m having my second go at being twenty in a couple of months and in all that time I’m proud to say I’ve never: - eaten a kebab
- gone on the dangleway
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Post by londonstuff on Nov 1, 2018 19:17:36 GMT
A great deal of testing can be done in service. Provided the signalling equipment isn't actually controlling the train, nor connected to the track (eg points), the behaviour of the trainborne and track side equipment and software, together with the communication links can be tested and monitored and confirmation made that it is doing what is expected, consistently as trains move around the railway. Together with testing on simulators, this can give a lot of confidence that all will be work when everything is connected. Isn't what they did with the Vic line - they left it going seemingly forever, it's just the legacy equipment was in charge? Basically the new stuff is passive with legacy active?
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Post by londonstuff on Oct 31, 2018 9:57:39 GMT
The interior architecture of this station is one of the best I’ve ever seen so if anyone is ever in Mumbai I highly recommend you go. Best avoid the mother of all rush hours like you life depends on it though!
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Post by londonstuff on Oct 22, 2018 11:41:12 GMT
As you, say I believe that Warren Street and Pimlico were mentioned in some way or form from the last few reports leading up to the act of parliament. But the early post war studies talk of a route linking Kings X, St Pancras, Euston and Victoria. There was quite a generous amount of swaying of the route to the head and foot of the route, but the framework of the central route between Finsbury Park and Stockwell was basically there, which I believe was what was cited in video 125’s drivers eye view of the Victoria line too. GA yes you are right there was route alterations/alignment in the early plans, Pimlico came very late like a lot of things. Slightly off topic but Pimlico, like Worlds End is now, would have been one of those strange places that is well located but no transport links whatsoever. I suppose like Nine Elms is now.
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Post by londonstuff on Sept 1, 2018 8:16:46 GMT
Admin Comment:
Just to reinforce the rules of the Forum relating to this sad incident yesterday:
We could encourage all members to read the Forum Rules, which are updated regularly.
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Post by londonstuff on Aug 26, 2018 19:42:26 GMT
As I said above, chasing red signals is bad practice and I hope you agree with that..... Deliberately going as fast as possible up to a red and then slamming on full service braking at the last possible moment may well be bad practice, however so is deliberately hanging back in my view. A red signal certainly doesn't need 265 metres of preparation time from 20 mph! Does the unwillingness of some train ops to make PAs possibly have an effect here - they drive super slowly towards red signals to avoid having to make one? Admin comment: It’s really interesting looking at both POVs with regard to signalling but if it strays any more I’ll start a new thread so it can continue in the right place. Let’s also not take it the wrong side of a healthy, good natured discussion.
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Post by londonstuff on Jul 22, 2018 3:31:51 GMT
This annual prune has now been completed. Any member who has been deleted and wishes to rejoin, please follow these steps:
1. Your account with Proboards should still be active so reapply to this Forum using the same username/email address 2. In the 'Further information' field, please mention that you have previously been a member here
We'll then accept your application and restore your post count.
Thank you for you understanding and to everyone for continuing to make District Dave's Forum a really interesting and enjoyable place to be.
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Post by londonstuff on Jul 20, 2018 4:35:46 GMT
I wonder if there's any obvious way of making it so that we can avoid a situation where if a daily quiz question is posted at, say 2am, and someone answers it at 4am, it's kind of over for everyone before anyone's even really got up. I originally thought that I could be that you make the answer white like this so that it's not really visible ( HEY GUYS, THE ANSWER IS 100% TURNHAM GREEN AND IT'S ONLY 2:30am) unless you click on it but everyone has different skins on different devices. I Would regularly encouraging people to send early submissions where they're pretty sure of the answer by PM workable? Or is there a better idea? Is it just me who sees this as a slight problem? Once again, thanks to all of the quiz team - Chris M , Colin D and rincew1nd , your efforts are very much appreciated.
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Post by londonstuff on Jun 23, 2018 22:32:53 GMT
Click here if embedded tweet fails to display. No fault found, driver.
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Post by londonstuff on Jun 21, 2018 12:27:14 GMT
Following discussions on FB groups, which stations didn't have starting signals? Going back to the early 1970s, the onl 3 that they taught us about at White City were Kew Gardens (both ways), Olympia and Blake Hall. Others that have been mentioned were Aldwych and Chesham, but I'm sure Chesham had one in the early 1970s. I might well be wrong but didn't Chalfont and Latimer not have one but then a fixed yellow a bit further along?
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Post by londonstuff on Jun 20, 2018 16:47:05 GMT
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Post by londonstuff on Jun 18, 2018 17:04:40 GMT
Negative post! The siemans train is reminiscent of a blood-sucking worm. I see what you mean: Henry I died of eating a surfeit of lampreys. 1100 years later it looks like Siemens took their inspiration from that breed of fish.
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Post by londonstuff on Jun 15, 2018 5:58:08 GMT
It's that time of year again, folks...
Over the past few years membership of the Forum has steadily increased to around 1050 members and we continually add about ten new members a week, which is great. Inevitably, however, over time some existing members move on, change direction or develop other interests.
Rather than have our membership numbers artificially inflated, around this time every year the staff on the Forum look through our membership list and prune those who have been inactive for an extended period of time. In general this would only be for members who have not logged in at all this year and in cases of well-established members, much longer than that - it is looked at very much on a case-by-case basis.
We certainly don't want to end anyone's membership who wants to continue as a member and so some action might be required before this takes place on Saturday 7th July 2018.
Action to be taken:
• If you are reading this and are logged in as yourself, or have been at any point in 2018, there's nothing more to do.
• If you are a member who reads the forum but haven't logged in during 2018, might we suggest that you do, at least once, before 7th July. Anyone who forgets their username or password can request this to be reset through Proboards. • If you log in as invisible, Proboards' software only logs the last time you logged in visibly, so either log in as visible at least once or PM any member of staff just to let us know you're still here..
After the 7th July if there is anyone who is late to this and would like to be restored they are welcome to apply again under the same name. They will have their account and post count restored as it was before.
This particular thread is locked but if you have any questions, please contact one of us, thought I'm happy to be the first point of contact.
Thanks
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Post by londonstuff on Jun 15, 2018 5:44:48 GMT
You don't know a PA wasn't made... and considering the driver, I expect there would have been. A westbound train also isn't going to cause a delay at Baker Street at 2115 (and even then, pausing for a minute is more than recoverable on the branch). There has been far too much hysteria around this and it's good to see that the company are backing this completely. The article I was reading described the tube train as "whizzing it's way round London" so I gathered it was an eastbound circle line but it was just a light hearted guess. I also gathered some sort of PA might not have been made as passengers looked quite confused and in later quick interviews with the man, he never mentioned it but obviously there are more prominent matters for him to mention Your comments in both posts sound like the comments on the bottom half of the Daily Mail website - a kind of insidious criticism just strong enough to see if others join the bandwagon and start criticising too. With respect, half of your posts are speculation - ‘ a light hearted guess’ and ‘ a PA might not have been made’ - so I’d suggest giving it a rest now. You’re better than that.
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Post by londonstuff on Jun 3, 2018 10:33:13 GMT
Ah, I'd forgotten that the Aldwych platform at Holborn was due to go - that's one of the only major things in Zone 1 I haven't seen though I was near there one day very early in the morning when a CSA opened it but he wouldn't even let me take one step inside Anyway, my apologies for taking the thread further off topic and perhaps let's return to A Stock. (However, if users want to discuss further the end of Holborn P5 please carry on in this thread and I'll separate it to a new one.)
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