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Post by stapler on May 11, 2015 15:22:38 GMT
Hackney Downs was Hackney Downs Junction, and always has been, so let's restore it there before BG!
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Post by longhedge on May 11, 2015 15:39:05 GMT
South West Trains are proposing to re-instate a service between Yeovil Junction and Pen Mill this December, so Yeovil will be a junction for passenger trains again. Indeed - both Yeovil stations will become junctions! Historically, many "Junction" names were some distance from the eponymous town - being the junction for the branch serving that town. "Road" (as in Lyndhust, Bodmin or Edgware, is another warning sign!) See Tiverton Junction (now Tiverton Parkway), Sidmouth Junction (now Feniton), Stourbridge Junction, Yeovil Junction etc. Some such junctions did not actually have an associated station, e.g Bromley Junction, in Norwood, where the Beckenham junction branch, originally the connection to the East Kent Railway (later LCDR), branches off the LBSCR's West End of London & Crystal Palace Railway). Clapham Junction has only recently had a service to Clapham proper restored in 2012, after a gap of nearly a hundred years. At risk of going `off-topic`as I live overlooking Clapham Junction station, I regret to inform I have just seen the first Overground Class 378 with graffiti on one carriage side. Really makes me annoyed (or worse) when persons do this.
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Post by Chris M on May 11, 2015 17:22:03 GMT
Birmingham Junction is in northwest London I believe, and I think there is also a Channel Tunnel Junction somewhere in London too.
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Post by peterc on May 11, 2015 19:57:34 GMT
But those names aren't applied to stations.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2015 14:21:12 GMT
See Tiverton Junction (now Tiverton Parkway) .... Tiverton Junction (which was in Willand) was replaced in 1986 by Tiverton Parkway, which is on the site of the former Sampford Peverell station.
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Post by snoggle on May 17, 2015 22:45:40 GMT
Forum members may be interested to know that John Biggs AM has posed a question to the Mayor about renaming Bethnal Green NR station. It'll be a written answer which should hopefully be answered before the end of the month. It's in amongst the mass of questions in this document
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Post by norbitonflyer on May 18, 2015 9:15:08 GMT
Forum members may be interested to know that John Biggs AM has posed a question to the Mayor about renaming Bethnal Green NR station. It'll be a written answer which should hopefully be answered before the end of the month. It's in amongst the mass of questions in this documentQuestion 1287, to be precise, and save you all ploughing through all three hundred or so!
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Post by Dom K on May 18, 2015 11:29:47 GMT
Forum members may be interested to know that John Biggs AM has posed a question to the Mayor about renaming Bethnal Green NR station. It'll be a written answer which should hopefully be answered before the end of the month. It's in amongst the mass of questions in this documentQuestion 1287, to be precise, and save you all ploughing through all three hundred or so! The oddest question in there is asking about a spiral escalator to replace spiral staircases at tube stations! Maybe they should take a trip to Holloway Road or Acton Museum to see why there isn't currently one!!
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Post by Chris M on May 18, 2015 12:12:00 GMT
Sprial escalators do now exist - there are apparently 107 in the world if I'm reading this article correctly - but they aren't cheap and don't look like they would fit in the space used by a typical spiral staircase. A design for a helical escalator exists, but no (full-scale?) prototype currently exists, based on their blog noting that one was still hoped for last year. There is also a " Levytator" free-form continuous loop escalator, which exists in scale models but not in a full-scale implementation yet. I'm not sure this would work as a helix or spiral though. Also, it has disadvantages for tube stations in that you can't run both sides in the same direction, and you can't stop down independently of up, but it might work somewhere you have a continuous light flow of people in both directions rather than peak flows.
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Post by stapler on May 18, 2015 20:50:47 GMT
Now we are getting off-theme, unless someone is suggesting a spiral escalator on Three Colts Lane!
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Post by snoggle on May 27, 2015 12:49:27 GMT
And here is the answer from the Mayor. No great surprises from what I can see and certainly what I expected.
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