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Post by croxleyn on Jan 22, 2024 17:04:55 GMT
Cartometro.com shows both platforms 10A and 11 with an orange/black dotted line so they know both can handle LO as well as "BR" traffic.
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Post by croxleyn on Jan 10, 2024 20:57:37 GMT
There's a Bus Only option, but not obviously Not Bus... Oh, I've just tried the options again after setting "Only Bus" (a very slow journey) and got far more, including your suggestion giving me the required answer. Thx
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Post by croxleyn on Jan 10, 2024 20:14:58 GMT
I'm travelling from Croxley to Paddington tomorrow for 7.30: the route used to be via the Bakerloo from Baker Street. Now, it seems TFL are emulating RyanAir by pushing travellers onto buses: I'll have to pay twice. Is there really any reason to not interchange at BS?
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Post by croxleyn on Dec 16, 2023 9:16:57 GMT
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Post by croxleyn on Nov 16, 2023 17:30:14 GMT
Capacitors are great regarding charge/discharge efficiency. However, their storage capacity is orders of magnitude lower then a chemical battery, size for size. The capacitor holds its energy by withstanding a physical stress between the plates. Yes, supercapacitors are available, but the current handling capability, as well as working voltage is greatly reduced.
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Post by croxleyn on Sept 23, 2023 7:10:29 GMT
Naive/simplistic question: Several comments have been made about "x"-stock being too long. Can not single/double etc. carriages be taken out, and maybe railing/barriers installed on the ends of platforms? Surely a reduced capacity would be far preferable to nothing at all?
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Post by croxleyn on Sept 1, 2023 17:14:48 GMT
Some years ago during an engineering group visit to Northumberland Park Depot, we were allowed a stint on the Victoria Line driving simulator. Being the last to go, I was able to watch everyone else, and realise that the simulation was set up to expect the op to reduce speed into the platform portal, put gentle power back on for about 1/3rd of the platform then slow to a halt. Perfect!
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Post by croxleyn on Aug 9, 2023 18:13:51 GMT
How about Virtual Reality headset plus haptic gloves for the trainee (plus computer)? As a 16-year old schoolboy, I remember a 5-minute session on a cine-film driven simulator at White City, but I'm not sure if that tipped the cab on corners... On the way home with an LU official in the cab, I was allowed to drive the H&C in the Ladbrook Grove area in the rush-hour!
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Post by croxleyn on Jun 24, 2023 17:18:08 GMT
PINs reduce fraud. If a retailer wants to balance fraud risk v. time for the customer to be processed, that's their choice. Also a customer may be discouraged from using their store with PIN use. For TFL, a few seconds to enter a PIN is immaterial.
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Post by croxleyn on Jun 13, 2023 18:51:28 GMT
Indeed, spsmiler. I used the ?Javelin? from St Pancras to Stratford Int for the Olympics, and was walking the gangway when we pulled out - I had to hang on far tighter than expected. But of course, the higher acceleration needs more power from the grid - a Pendolino on maximum acceleration takes 6MW: that would power several thousand properties...
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Post by croxleyn on Jun 3, 2023 18:08:51 GMT
But don't forget that S-stock is 4-rail DC powered. From observation (I use S-stock from Croxley, and have had one Elizabeth line trip) the acceleration of the latter is far faster, enabled by the overhead line power feed. Rail-fed power would not have been provided to Reading! To provide the pantographs, transformers etc in an S-sock would be a major re-design.
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Post by croxleyn on Jun 2, 2023 15:37:11 GMT
For our older readers, the gap is 7 & a half inches, or a small hand-span. Being imperial-taught, I still have to convert to feel the magnitude of metric dimensions.
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Post by croxleyn on Apr 16, 2023 17:26:05 GMT
Rather than this blunderbuss approach to cleaning air, I would rather see a tightening of the (national) MOT emissions test to get smokey, smelly engines sorted, or off the road. Outside of London, I frequently have to set my car heater to re-circulate because of a stinker in front, even several vehicles away. Conversely there must be many aged cars, with low mileage that really are not a problem.
And also, a lot of "emissions" are actually from the tyres...
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Post by croxleyn on Mar 31, 2023 18:41:02 GMT
I would think that names are going to be far too bulky on an already cluttered map. My suggestion is a single letter, followed by a number for its destination. So for the Met line, Baker St might be M0. Aldgate M1, Amersham M2, Chesham M3, Watford M4, Uxbridge M5. Maps would then have all letter/number pairs (or maybe M2-5 northbound until HOH) repeated along the line with an arrow direction, and destination displays would also include the final. Rather like a bus map. I remember arriving at Preston, wanting a tight connection to the next branch line station. Finding someone to ask, I was told in broad Mancunian accent the 'Azel (Hazel) Grove line. It would have taken ages to watch the multitude of stops listed on the scrolling display - in fact that's near the airport on the other side of the city.
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Post by croxleyn on Mar 27, 2023 16:57:25 GMT
"Watford" would get confused with Watford Metropolitan...
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Post by croxleyn on Jan 23, 2023 19:48:30 GMT
Wow! What detail - thanks to all respondents.
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Post by croxleyn on Jan 22, 2023 14:02:51 GMT
Could someone please enlighten me as to what characteristics make a train "handed"? Is it that the wheels wear differently to fit worn track profiles?
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Post by croxleyn on Jan 21, 2023 11:06:28 GMT
Is the policy to speed up the reversal process, or to remove the need for a platform "supervisor"? If the former, could not the supervisor travel with the train to the siding and walk the length with the TOp? Any recalcitrant passengers could be (herded) persuaded though to the front for safer control.
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Post by croxleyn on Nov 22, 2022 17:01:02 GMT
Does not the crossover just north of Wembley Central still exist (carto metro)? A Watford Junction to Wembley LO shuttle would be easy, either feeding into the fast services at Wembley/Harrow+Wealdstone, or the OSI at Kenton to Northwick Park (Met line). Would save the majority of the tedious Rail Replacement bus...
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Post by croxleyn on Aug 3, 2022 20:18:35 GMT
Bridge #1. I have a Watford and District Fieldpath map, dated 1902, showing the lack of the "northern bypass", Park Rd by Waitrose! So the High Street was the only thoroughfare (two-way). Station Rd was the bottom end of the A404 Chorleywood Rd. Nightingale Rd was there, but the subway was a footpath across fields. The mystery bridge joined a farm track from the A404 to all the fields right down to Berry Lane, where the Highfield Way estate now is. The clue's in the name! Croxley (my patch) was but houses along New Road, Dickinson Square and around the top of Scots Hill.
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Post by croxleyn on May 7, 2022 16:08:01 GMT
Jimbo's reply: Perhaps the initial E.Line through timetable will require train renumbering at the current terminals, allowing the extended service to later pick up its scheduled National Rail working upon surfacing? But without the additional 4tph shuttle to Liverpool Street main line station, how will staff maintain their route knowledge? E.Line... Now that's an abbreviation I could certainly use
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Post by croxleyn on Mar 27, 2022 19:34:01 GMT
Please see the comprehensive review that Herts County Council commissioned for the West of Watford Transport options: Metropolitan Line Extension AlternativesThey have considered a tram from Watford to Cassiobridge, but not looked at the possible through connection to Rickmansworth (bay platform remnants) via the North Curve. To keep costs as low as possible (still not affordable these days) the track could leave the old bed at Cassiobridge, then use street running as far as Croxley station via the car park. The most expensive bit would be re-arranging the switches for the Rickmansworth station approach. But, how much use would it get? Possibly more when East-West rail is eventually linked to Marylebone via Aylesbury. Still belongs in the FRIPAS section, unfortunately...
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Post by croxleyn on Mar 22, 2022 20:24:55 GMT
Although not heard for a while, BBC Three Counties travel at 06.55 has several times reported Met Line problems to Chesham or Amersham. I wonder where they get their information from?
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Post by croxleyn on Dec 15, 2021 20:35:52 GMT
The fundamental difference between scooters and wheelchairs, apart from the latter generally having the far sturdier lead-acid batteries, is that scooters so easily get bashed around. However the cells in their "dry" batteries, especially lithium have ultra-thin separators between the electrodes (to maintain performance), and are very easy to short out >> FIRE!
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Post by croxleyn on Dec 11, 2021 18:25:13 GMT
I wonder about Segways? Some years ago I saw Warwick Davis using a mini one to join the throng of passengers along a platform at Kings Cross mainline station. It made him just about the same height as most others...
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Post by croxleyn on Dec 5, 2021 8:38:33 GMT
No, definitely base aluminium / "silver". Surely a RHTT would be much shorter, and no need to have all the lights on - the windows looked steamed up. It'll just have to remain a mystery...
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Post by croxleyn on Dec 3, 2021 19:38:31 GMT
Walking under the Gade Valley viaduct just outside Watford Met at 08.45 this misty morning, there passed overhead a decent length silver train, carriage lights on... I think it had single doors, like a D-stock, but I'm not sure. Might it be an RHTT?
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Post by croxleyn on Sept 12, 2021 19:18:03 GMT
I wonder if LU have ever thought of adopting this concept as a way of removing potential dangers of electrified rails from most stations. I would have thought the most dangerous aspect of stations is people on the tracks: if you remove the electrification, would that not reduce the discouragement provided by the chance of electrocution?
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Post by croxleyn on Jun 9, 2021 19:56:48 GMT
As a resident of Croxley, may I ask where the depot was? I know there was a set of carriage sheds below Watford Hospital...
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Post by croxleyn on Mar 19, 2021 19:52:30 GMT
I recall Dave Gorman, of TV fame, saying how at ? Hackney Wick station, there's a sign to alight for Loughborough University London. Upon being asked how to pronounce it by tourists, he announced "Low-brow"!
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