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Post by gantshill on May 7, 2013 15:56:58 GMT
I'd opt for Earls Court too.
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Post by gantshill on May 3, 2013 18:31:59 GMT
I'm fairly certain that C isn't Gants Hill. It could be St John's Wood or Swiss Cottage? Or even Highgate.
But I've no idea where anything else is - apart from Stonehenge.
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Post by gantshill on Apr 25, 2013 20:57:28 GMT
OK, so Tooting. I've no idea which one.
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Post by gantshill on Apr 14, 2013 19:34:40 GMT
I'd tend towards Leytonstone...
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Post by gantshill on Apr 13, 2013 20:39:15 GMT
Or Rayners Lane?
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Post by gantshill on Apr 13, 2013 20:22:15 GMT
Sudbury Hill?
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Post by gantshill on Apr 12, 2013 22:51:40 GMT
Hope it goes well tomorrow at the meet. Alas, I won't be joining you.
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Post by gantshill on Apr 12, 2013 22:50:39 GMT
Valentines Park?
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Post by gantshill on Apr 9, 2013 6:24:07 GMT
I also agree with Hillingdon.
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Post by gantshill on Mar 20, 2013 8:47:01 GMT
One of the pictures looks like the Paris métro. Is there a new station opening there today?
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Post by gantshill on Mar 12, 2013 21:00:18 GMT
Is the earliest train in the day one from Hammersmith? Circ/H&C
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Post by gantshill on Mar 11, 2013 23:39:04 GMT
I should probably just look at the Douglas Rose map for ideas, if it is an underground station. I wonder if Bayswater might be a contender?
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Post by gantshill on Mar 2, 2013 9:41:22 GMT
The departure DMI at East Putney is also often incorrect, showing Edgware Road for a City train and vice versa. I rely on the stock to let me know the route after Earl's Court. I'll have to start paying attention once the S-stock are introduced.
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Post by gantshill on Feb 15, 2013 7:54:55 GMT
I agree that A is East Putney.
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Post by gantshill on Feb 14, 2013 9:12:05 GMT
I'm sure that the Brian Hardy London Underground Rolling Stock books will have mentioned it in the relevant editions. I can't access mine at the moment.
I am guessing that headcodes stopped being used in anticipation of the introduction of the D stock trains, which is not quite the same as when the COP and R stock were withdrawn.
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Post by gantshill on Feb 8, 2013 22:42:43 GMT
You win!
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Post by gantshill on Feb 8, 2013 21:57:49 GMT
We've just bought matching cuff links (in different colours - mine are central line red, whilst his are ligne 6 or 7bis green).
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Post by gantshill on Feb 7, 2013 10:16:30 GMT
South Ruislip +1
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Post by gantshill on Feb 4, 2013 14:21:43 GMT
Is the bottom picture on the Northern Line?
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Post by gantshill on Jan 24, 2013 11:33:31 GMT
Cyprus (DLR)
(I had been tempted to go with Temple, ligne 3, but thought better of it)
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Post by gantshill on Jan 13, 2013 22:39:16 GMT
I visited Moorgate this evening, then saw the train travel on the outer circle at Bayswater.
Putting the S7 in Moorgate platform 3 seemed to me to be a clever way of stopping people clamber down onto the track to get closer to the anniversary train.
Like others posted, it felt as if the train went through the station very fast, too fast to really be able to appreciate it. However, the smell of steam afterwards was wonderful.
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Post by gantshill on Jan 7, 2013 21:53:20 GMT
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Post by gantshill on Jan 7, 2013 21:46:34 GMT
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Post by gantshill on Jan 7, 2013 11:33:50 GMT
And looking closely, I also agree with the inset. The view is looking upstream.
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Post by gantshill on Jan 7, 2013 10:49:57 GMT
I agree.
Temple +1
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Post by gantshill on Jan 5, 2013 11:34:03 GMT
Before the Overground got the West London Line, the platform signs stated "London Kensington Olympia", the trains "Olympia" and the underground map "Kensington (Olympia)". Three different names on three different media.
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Post by gantshill on Jan 5, 2013 11:31:58 GMT
Following on from the previous post, there must be a terrible joke about not worrying the sheep.
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Post by gantshill on Jan 3, 2013 18:00:12 GMT
My memory of reading various books is that originally underground train cars had A end and B ends, but it was changed at some point to count the wheels on the trucks, so it went A, B, C and D, with what was B end becoming D end.
Although the idea of Acton ends and Dagenham ends is much more poetic.
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Post by gantshill on Dec 25, 2012 16:55:42 GMT
Brondesbury. Each station can have Park added to make another station.
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Post by gantshill on Dec 24, 2012 11:05:01 GMT
I was going to suggest that it was the first portion of the Metropolitan District Railway to open (24th December), but I am clearly wrong.
Merry Christmas!
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