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Post by manorborn on Dec 7, 2013 22:56:20 GMT
So does that mean no more steam on any part of Met or is the signalling on the Amersham branch different?
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Post by manorborn on Dec 7, 2013 22:13:38 GMT
The advert promoting SOTM says this may be the last time steam runs from Harrow to Uxbridge. Anyone know why?
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Post by manorborn on Sept 12, 2013 8:54:51 GMT
No, I don't, but I can't shake off the expression, "A rose-red city, half as Golder's Green". Sorry... I can't shake the lyric: "Finchley Central, is two and sixpence, from Golders Green, on the Northern Line". Which just strikes me as downright wrong. But "Finchley Central, ten long stations, from Golders Green change at Camden Town" is, I believe, pretty well spot on.
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Post by manorborn on Sept 1, 2013 14:05:49 GMT
Anyone remember the episode of Supercar which used footage of the Brighton run? - I think it was supposed to be an atomic-powered train which of course got out of control.
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Post by manorborn on Aug 16, 2013 16:00:17 GMT
today is S stock - sometimes often you see S7 running around on met main line speaking of which, I've seen a train on one of the outside tracks in the Neasden depot a couple of times recently with Parsons Green as its destination. Looks really odd (to me as a passenger, that is)
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Post by manorborn on Aug 3, 2013 13:37:01 GMT
60mph!!!! My goodness. Might have to bring a crash helmet. Never been that fast in a good old A stock When I was commuting daily in the 1970s, some trains used to hurtle between Neasden and Wembley Park, swaying so hard things would fall off one's lap. Once or twice I was genuinely concerned that the train might derail. I guess they were going at the max of the speed limit or maybe a little over. Pleased to say that nothing ever went wrong.
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Post by manorborn on Jul 23, 2013 19:48:34 GMT
Brill - an excited exclamation, often used by groups of seven sisters or scholars of Westminster or Harrow. Well, if we are admitting the tramway stations then... Westcott - what a posh bloke wears under his jacket Wood Siding - and when you count up to 10 you can look for him
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Post by manorborn on Jul 23, 2013 12:31:28 GMT
Wimbledon Park - where the lecturers at Wimble University leave their cars
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Post by manorborn on Jul 23, 2013 12:28:57 GMT
Greenford - a variant on the game "yellow car" (as in the radio sitcom Cabin Pressure) Perivale - (for Latin scholars only) - Goodbye, Perry
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Post by manorborn on Jul 23, 2013 8:17:31 GMT
Walthamstow Central - The middle digit of Waltham's foot
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Post by manorborn on Jul 22, 2013 21:44:25 GMT
Turnham Green - I knew that last curry was a mistake
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Post by manorborn on Jul 22, 2013 15:57:20 GMT
Waterloo - I'm going to p!ss in the river again
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Post by manorborn on Jul 22, 2013 14:37:30 GMT
Kilburn - instructions to Vikings
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Post by manorborn on Jul 22, 2013 14:35:04 GMT
Watford - where did you say we should cross the river?
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Post by manorborn on Jul 22, 2013 14:30:55 GMT
Rickmansworth - the fee paid to a certain actor
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Post by manorborn on Jun 26, 2013 19:27:11 GMT
It was a slow Uxbridge which I caught at Finchley Road around 5:20. Fairly full so probably up from the city.
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Post by manorborn on Jun 26, 2013 17:52:42 GMT
The first time I travelled on the S stock on a hot day I was struck by how much cooler it was inside the train than out. Today, a reasonably warm afternoon, I did not really feel that the train was cooler. Is this just imagination or does the aircon not work until the temperature is at a certain level?
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Post by manorborn on May 11, 2013 12:08:43 GMT
I once heard a driver at Harrow apologise for some confusion about his train's destination with the phrase "that work of fiction known as the timetable".
Would that get his card marked or would this be seen as fair comment from someone who ought to know?
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Post by manorborn on Mar 14, 2013 8:44:38 GMT
I am baffled by the info displayed by the live departure boards. As well as a cosmetic change to the main website, the actual times of train arrivals are different between my web browser version on my desktop and the android app on my phone.
For example: right now (08:36) it shows the next eastbound Met at Ruislip Manor in 4 minutes but the android app (the excellent Tube Chaser) shows a train at the platform and the next Met at Uxbridge, at least 9 minutes away.
What on earth is going on? My uninformed guess is that the revamp of the website has delayed the processing of live info whereas the phone app, with a direct line into the LU systems, is accurate. I think the app is right because I can see the platforms from my home and verify when it says a train is at the platform.
In addition, the website no longer shows where the trains are, just how many minutes away but the app continues to show the location (which I find useful) - why has this been dropped from the website? Given that the info is all there anyway, why not display it? Looks like a case of someone trying to justify their job by making unnecessary changes.
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Post by manorborn on Mar 10, 2013 14:20:19 GMT
Never mind tip-out/turf-out/detrain...when did "wrong stick" enter the language please? I am familiar with path/route/branch/line/track/road but stick??
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Post by manorborn on Mar 3, 2013 22:11:38 GMT
Last year I compiled a set of photos of every tube station, mainly sourced from Flickr. No 1 contributor was BowroadUK, closely followed by Sunil060902 who posts on Wikipedia, then Londonstuff, Peter Courtenay, satguru, looper23, version3point1 (herself a tube driver) and oxyman. But just search for tags with Tube or names of lines and you'll get masses of brilliant photos. So brilliant that I abandoned my other idea which was to make my own.
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Post by manorborn on Nov 27, 2012 22:06:59 GMT
Didn't someone already post about this? Yes, the thread is entitled " Baker Street Insanity" and is in the Jubilee line section. Thanks - I don't travel on the Jubbly so didn't read the original thread
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Post by manorborn on Nov 27, 2012 17:46:28 GMT
Sorry - if they did I didn't see it
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Post by manorborn on Nov 27, 2012 17:16:54 GMT
Can anyone explain what is happening - both the steps down to the Met lines, and from the Met platforms to the lower circulating area for the Jubilee/Bakerloo are one way some of the time - this afternoon for example staff were blocking off the main steps down to platforms 1 and 2. Is this permanent? It could be a real pain to arrive on the Bakerloo and have to come up to platform 2 and then cross by the footbridge to get on a northbound Met leaving on 4 (makes glad that I am pretty well retired from daily commuting on that route).
<<Rincew1nd - Edit: Moved from Met' Board to this existing thread on the Jub' Board>>
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Post by manorborn on Oct 11, 2012 17:06:47 GMT
Another strange announcement heard a few days ago on a northbound Met approaching Wembley Park "Over there is Wembley Stadium where I hope Queens Park Rangers will lift the FA cup sometime in the next century". As an R's fan (oh, the years of pain) I was glad at heart to know the driver was a hoops man.
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Post by manorborn on Mar 19, 2012 22:16:33 GMT
I enjoyed tonight's episode and am surprised there are so few comments about it here. I was wondering if that was MetControl who was shown explaining why a short delay at Kings X causes huge disruption down the line?
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Post by manorborn on Feb 14, 2012 9:56:31 GMT
Last night a poster was put up at Met stations apologising and saying there would be automatic refunds to Oyster cards. I have never seen this done before. It throws up all sorts of anomalies. a) If one was not actually delayed but travelled on the Met yesterday, one would get the refund automatically? Or if the journey started before a certain time? And from all Met stations or only those not directly connected to other lines? c) If one saw there were delays and went by a different route altogether, taking much longer than normal, will they get a refund? The refund could be based on looking at actual travel over the last month or two d) If one has a prepaid season ticket and abandoned the journey before starting it, presumably they must make a charter claim? Or is that not possible given that they were technically not delayed on the journey itself? Even though they were unable to travel at all.
Having said all that, I now have a freedom pass so my extra 20 minutes of journey to work, plus back ache all day (thanks to the seats on the Picc designed for very short people) doesn't get compensated anyway, so my question is purely out of curiosity.
And finally (as they say), if automatic refunds are now possible, why do they still send out vouchers by post when you make a charter claim?
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Post by manorborn on Dec 13, 2011 21:17:05 GMT
Fascinating. I've been a passenger on the Met since infancy and in 60 years have seen the Victoria. Jubilee and DLR built and the Piccadilly extended, but this is the first extension of the Met. In fact, this must mark the first expansion since the great retreat of the 1930s from outermost Buckinghamshire.
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Post by manorborn on Dec 11, 2011 11:13:21 GMT
At least, from what you say, one of our drivers informed you of what was going on - so to be honest you were given information, even if it wasn't via a huge, whole station announcement. Call it the personal touch. I am indeed very pleased that the driver took the trouble to keep his passengers informed. My point is that, had there been a general announcement as I arrived at the station from the Bakerloo, I would have known to take the Uxbridge on 2 straight away. With a stalled train blocking the line it should really not be left up to the drivers to tell passengers what to do. And there were plenty of others who got onto the Watford with me and who then debarked when they heard the driver's announcement (in other words. if there were any general announcements I was certainly not the only one who failed to hear them) As to the standard advice to take the first available train, this is fine except that when I arrived the indicator boards said that the Watford was the first train... Anyway, thanks for taking the time to explain a bit more.
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Post by manorborn on Dec 10, 2011 9:56:37 GMT
Judging by the word, rebooted, it was an S Stock you were on? And as the power returns and the train moves, does an animated character (a semaphore signal,say) pop up and say "You appear to be driving a train, need any help with that" or "You have executed an illegal instruction, cancel or abort?"
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