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Post by jswallow on Sept 29, 2009 14:18:59 GMT
The passengers have something that work again don't they? They've done with dot matrix displays for all that time.
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Post by jswallow on Sept 13, 2009 19:35:57 GMT
This is crazily complicated. It's a rant not aimed at anyone, how the hell is anyone supposed to be able to describe this sensibly?
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Post by jswallow on Sept 13, 2009 16:47:10 GMT
Yellow. Yellow still means you're *starting or ending a journey for PAYG*, and that's not changed with the introduction of pink readers. A pink reader would be used if you're *already started* a PAYG journey. And those two paragraphs have just taken me ages to work out how to write in plain English.
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Post by jswallow on Aug 30, 2009 15:46:39 GMT
Presumably it's different because of Notting Hill Carnival. While it might still be showing 28 on the blinds, it needs something to distinguish it to iBus while the diversions are in place or it'll all get confused.
A bit like the heritage Routemaster service being officially known as the 9H and 15H.
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Post by jswallow on Aug 13, 2009 21:07:56 GMT
Loughton has four platforms (according to CULG as I don't know the area). 1 and 2 are an island, 3 and 4 are an island - a single track serves both platforms 2 and 3. The work will affect the Loughton terminators if it's going to impact anything, as platform 1 (wb) and 4 (eb) are unaffected by this work. But no, I don't know what they're doing either.
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Post by jswallow on Aug 9, 2009 21:49:07 GMT
Can I ask a (probably very) stupid question? I can understand the Visual aspect of the inspection, but how does Audio come into this - what does listening to something achieve?
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Post by jswallow on Jul 23, 2009 6:18:12 GMT
That's what I meant, it's a picture of a devinyled one, as opposed to a repainted for NXc2c livery one.
Same here. I think NX are on their last legs. I suppose we should be glad that at least they didn't decide to lose the 'c2c' name as well, which was threatened at one point.
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Post by jswallow on Jul 22, 2009 20:34:15 GMT
The purple was vinyl, but the stock's all going in for repaint and rebranding as National Express / c2c. And before the usual naysayers come along saying it's a waste of money, it's happening at a planned maintenance point.
Interestingly though, the artist's impression in the c2c magazine shows them as white with BLUE doors, not green, so at a guess this picture is before it goes off to repaint.
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Post by jswallow on May 2, 2009 11:39:34 GMT
What rise in tube fares? Seems a bit late to protesting about the annual fares change back in January.
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Post by jswallow on May 2, 2009 11:38:48 GMT
P89's were delivered with the same doors as the P86 stock, but were retrofitted with single leaf doors later on as the bus doors were essentially no good for a busy railway.
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Post by jswallow on Mar 18, 2009 17:05:15 GMT
Where did you get your copy from please? Amazon seems to be having trouble sourcing it.
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Post by jswallow on Feb 1, 2009 10:11:55 GMT
I thought its primary purpose was for it to be used during peak hours to bring trains into service at Mudchute heading into Central London to give people a fighting chance of being actually able to board a train that's probably full already with people boarding between Lewisham and Island Gardens.
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Post by jswallow on Feb 1, 2009 10:10:46 GMT
And I don't disagree with you. I was taking the comment
as meaning the 313 should soldier on ever, as heaven forbid that we should consider ever replacing a piece of equipment and replacing it with something better.
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Post by jswallow on Jan 31, 2009 7:34:56 GMT
313s are the oldest of the second-generation EMUs running on the network now, and so rank as some of the oldest passenger stock on the network. They are past their best and need to go.
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Post by jswallow on Jan 15, 2009 7:54:44 GMT
Sorry don't think you've understood my question ... I asked whether it was still a nightmare to get into on a Saturday afternoon when the airport is closed and all the doors to the front terminal (and thus the station) are locked. The first time I used City Airport station on a Saturday it took me about 5 minutes to find the alternative entrance because nobody had bothered to sign it. Things might have changed since then, hence me asking.
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Post by jswallow on Jan 14, 2009 11:28:08 GMT
Of course you don't know what sort of journey he'd had to get to Canning Town that day. Maybe the final leg of the journey to City Airport was the straw that broke the camel's back.
City Airport station's a funny one - is it still really difficult to get into on a Saturday afternoon when the airport goes to sleep until Sunday? It took me ages to find the secret tunnel into it just after the station had opened.
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Post by jswallow on Nov 26, 2008 8:12:41 GMT
You should come and work for our company in the IT outsourcing industry. I run a team of people, all of whom are on different contracts because they TUPEd from their company to ours when we took over their IT service. Different hours, different rates of pay, different overtime rules, makes you wonder how the HR department keeps track of it all. But completely legal and absolutely as it should be.
Our laws relating to this are spot on. I'm just glad I don't work in America where you can be sacked at the drop of a hat (we were very amused when Americans came over here to sort out a problem and thought they could just do that to their British employees).
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Post by jswallow on Oct 22, 2008 13:34:26 GMT
Quick question ... how many new stock units are in service now? If I go out hunting tomorrow (as I have a rare day off) am I likely to find one out and about?
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Post by jswallow on Aug 14, 2008 12:30:13 GMT
Where's the new taxi rank and bus stop at Stratford going to be? I haven't been outside the station there for a while. Hopefully it won't be cramped as the old area as it was a nightmare for Rail Replacement and National Expresses trying to turn in it.
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Post by jswallow on Jul 21, 2008 7:32:52 GMT
If it were one route end-to-end it would be so unreliable as to be useless, and it would also have to be a single deck thanks to the low bridge at Gospel Oak.
The split means you can run double-deckers as a result between Blackhorse Road and Barking. The next question of course is why choose Blackhorse as the split point, and I don't know the answer to that unless it's got somewhere sensible for laying over/turning etc.
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Post by jswallow on Mar 26, 2008 7:15:49 GMT
And I think you're being offensive. You seem to forget the someone else might have a different point of view to yours which you refuse to accept.
I'm with Mitcham on this one. I'm not LU staff, but in a similar sort of job where I will get shouted at and insulted by supposed colleagues at if things aren't fixed and working quickly. It's not my job to get the thing working, and I know it's not aimed at me personally but it's still a very nasty thing to be on the receiving end of. If it happens to me, which mercifully it doesn't very often, it puts my entire day down the pan.
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Post by jswallow on Oct 31, 2007 17:29:36 GMT
The year part of the ticket was used to indicate at which station the ticket was issued. Each of them had a two digit code. Haven't been on the Clockwork Orange for ages ... it felt very tiny and dinky compared to London tubes.
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Post by jswallow on Mar 16, 2007 14:57:48 GMT
Most likely answer is that the new westbound platform face will provide a convenient way of getting from the westbound Central line across to the Docklands Light Railway (when it moves platforms) without having to go up and down stairs.
The plan shows the platform on either side of the train, so it will be a "both sides open" station.
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Post by jswallow on Oct 27, 2007 21:29:51 GMT
Errr ... I think you'll find that one tried it at Island Gardens before the system opened during unauthorised testing.
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Post by jswallow on Oct 19, 2007 13:25:28 GMT
There was, but in fairness to the DLR - this was on the railway prior to it being opened to the public and while the system was in a test mode (and more to the point, while unauthorised tests were being performed). Source: catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/5.29.html#subj3The Managing Director of Docklands Light Railway Limited, Cliff Bonnett, has said the accident which occurred at Island Gardens station on 10 March (Modern Railways, May) was primarily caused by unauthorised tests, carried out before required modifications had been carried out at the southern terminus. The train, which ended up overhanging from the elevated track after crashing through buffers, would have been 'arrested' if the protection system 'in its full and modified form' had been installed. The train was being driven manually.
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