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Post by silenthunter on May 10, 2019 18:37:19 GMT
Murphy's Law of Major Projects: Any projected date will probably be missed by at least a year.
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Post by silenthunter on May 9, 2019 20:53:42 GMT
No plans to do Hanwell? It may be a Grade II listed station, but it's a Grade II listed dump.
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Post by silenthunter on May 2, 2019 18:39:39 GMT
I think I'll pass on this particular trip, especially as I am doing a rail tour the previous weekend.
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Post by silenthunter on Apr 30, 2019 18:25:00 GMT
Isn't the future operator the current TfL Rail one i.e. MTR Crossrail?
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Post by silenthunter on Apr 22, 2019 20:27:24 GMT
Alas, I won't be able to get to a computer before all those sell out...
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Post by silenthunter on Apr 19, 2019 20:36:20 GMT
One 314 is being converted for Driver Training for GWR... and I think we'd better move that to another thread before the mods turn up.
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Post by silenthunter on Apr 18, 2019 9:44:57 GMT
So opening could be delayed if the testing goes badly...
What's holding up the stations though?
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Post by silenthunter on Mar 22, 2019 20:02:35 GMT
Indeed. I'll save my money for the 5BEL...
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Post by silenthunter on Mar 15, 2019 11:09:15 GMT
A lot of them are on the BFI website, I believe.
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Post by silenthunter on Mar 11, 2019 14:35:01 GMT
The S Stock is Bombardier, this is Siemens.
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Post by silenthunter on Mar 6, 2019 12:46:18 GMT
I've used that station at peak times, the escalators are hardly used at all.
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Post by silenthunter on Mar 6, 2019 12:40:36 GMT
Then you have bigger stairs, not an escalator.
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Post by silenthunter on Mar 6, 2019 12:30:51 GMT
Why do you need escalators here when there is a perfectly decent set of stairs?
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Post by silenthunter on Mar 6, 2019 10:45:45 GMT
Does anyone have any members of using the Mark 1 DMUs and EMUs on a daily basis?
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Post by silenthunter on Mar 6, 2019 10:45:12 GMT
Quite an old thread, but here goes - There was an early Picc line driving simulator from the late 50s or early 60s that used a colour film shot from the front of a train - the speed of the projection was linked to the controller i think (maybe for 1959/62 stock?) It's about 15 mins long, goes through central London. They have it at the LT Museum, but it's not online - I did find this Circle one you might be interested in though, shot from a CP stock train. www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/film-video/item/2016-1860Things do change over time and this is the wrong forum for making generalisations (but I will do anyway - eek!): the 70s and 80s was a low point for investment in tube stations and infrastructure, so apart from the adverts and fashions the there won't be a lot of difference between these scenes and the late 60s, and the image quality is not that great to see these details anyway. Signage and so on will be older in a lot of stations at the time, there was no overall plan to standardise signage until the 90s. There was a similar 'simulator' used for training drivers for the electric trains on the West Coast Main Line in the 1960s described in an Ian Allan annual I have; you could even set the signal aspects.
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Post by silenthunter on Mar 6, 2019 8:46:56 GMT
Passenger information systems are a major requirement. You can't just have a guard yell out the names of the next station these days as equality laws require it to be done in visual form as well.
Also, new EMUs have computers to assist in fault finding; they can report back in real time to the depot as to what is wrong, saving time taking the unit apart to find the fault.
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Post by silenthunter on Mar 5, 2019 14:05:02 GMT
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Post by silenthunter on Mar 5, 2019 11:54:05 GMT
Was the first TfL (incl predecessors) diesel passenger train those which ran when the Goblin was first taken over? Depends who you count as a TfL predecessor - British Rail certainly ran DMUs on (parts of?) the North London Line for a time, and it was only very recently that the local service between Paddington and Hayes & Harlington got it's first electric service. I don't think TfL has run any DMUs anywhere other than the Goblin (and occasional through journeys between there and Willesden) though. I think the reference was to LRT or London Transport.
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Post by silenthunter on Mar 2, 2019 23:28:13 GMT
Hope is a town in Arkansas. It produced Bill Clinton.
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Post by silenthunter on Mar 2, 2019 22:12:50 GMT
Yes, but if you have three trains and one gets badly broken...
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Post by silenthunter on Feb 23, 2019 11:30:55 GMT
Do they have the Romford to Upminster stations in there as well?
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Post by silenthunter on Feb 10, 2019 18:32:26 GMT
You would need to install the equipment for that of course.
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Post by silenthunter on Feb 3, 2019 11:35:52 GMT
The central core is the 'key bit'. The rest pales in comparison.
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Post by silenthunter on Jan 28, 2019 22:26:34 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) Trying and failing to think of any, sorry.
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Post by silenthunter on Jan 28, 2019 21:25:19 GMT
How many 717s are running now? Does anyone know the schedules for them as I'm looking to 'bash' one on Wednesday afternoon.
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Post by silenthunter on Jan 25, 2019 18:54:04 GMT
Which means that Monday will be the real debut of electrification on the Goblin for passengers.
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Post by silenthunter on Jan 21, 2019 12:29:38 GMT
Door testing can be incorporated into staff training.
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Post by silenthunter on Jan 13, 2019 22:21:48 GMT
Hmm, this branch is not wholly underground! If I went to an open air location on the Abbey Wood branch that is in a public place (not a station etc) would it be even remotely possible that one of these test trains would be seen? My thoughts are that the CBTC signalling will need testing - especially as this is effectively a brand new railway, even if in places historic infrastructure is being reused. Simon
Yes. You could also go to the Olympic Park in Stratford as the entrance to the core is near.
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Post by silenthunter on Jan 3, 2019 22:01:10 GMT
That said, they do have advanced diagnostics that make easier to find out what the fault is.
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Post by silenthunter on Jan 3, 2019 18:19:39 GMT
I'm not the one actually developing it. I just thought it was worth bringing to people's attention.
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