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Post by howda62 on Jun 8, 2018 10:06:59 GMT
Realtimetrains shows the 0745 Richmond to Stratford service was terminated at Dalston Kingsland (was late running, arrived at Dalston at 08:49). The return service started back from Dalston at 09:07. Presumably it must have been held in the Graham Road curve for 15 minutes? Perhaps this is what you saw? I wonder how often the Graham Road curve gets used to turn back late running services.
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Post by howda62 on Jun 2, 2018 7:31:04 GMT
The limits are actually reduced from 60 to 40. It is probably more likely that away from the leaf fall period Chiltern trains will be running faster then Met ones, tracks can get slippery at any time of the year, in fact the worst I ever experienced were one February. Thanks for the correction. You may well be right, I guess we'll have to see how the CBTC setup on the S8's will handle slippery conditions.
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Post by howda62 on Jun 1, 2018 17:05:44 GMT
Does anyone know if the stations chorleywood, Chalfont, Amersham and Chesham have DMI's yet? There's nothing yet at Amersham, Chalfont or Chorleywood, not sure about Chesham.
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Post by howda62 on May 25, 2018 7:45:12 GMT
The north end of the Met has some flippable speed limit signs which I think are flipped from 60 to 50 during leaf fall. Presumably this manual change will still have to happen for the Chiltern services? If so, if the new CBTC signalling can sense if poor rail conditions apply, there could be a scenario on good days in autumn when S stock could be unrestricted but Chiltern services would still be restricted by the lineside speed signs?
Given there is a leaf fall timetable which allows 3 minutes extra running time (assuming that must still exist in the future), any "good day" faster running though would only assist when Met trains are running late to help them catch up to schedule. And such capability may not be available to Chiltern trains.
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Post by howda62 on May 20, 2018 20:16:19 GMT
I picked up the May pocket map on Friday, so they're already in some stations. And don't panic, New Addington is present. differences January 2018 to May 2018: - TfL Rail services Paddington-Heathrow T2,3 and T4 added. stations added to map: Hayes & Harlington, Southall, Hanwell, West Ealing, Acton Main Line. - Blackhorse Road (LO), step-free to platform added - Bromley-by-Bow, step-free to platform added - Buckhurst Hill, step-free to platform added - Camden Town, dagger removed - Canning Town, dagger removed - Hammersmith (District/Piccadilly), now step-free to train - Holborn, dagger removed - Kennington, dagger added - Tottenham Court Road (Northern), now step-free to train - Wimbledon (District), now step-free to train
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Post by howda62 on May 20, 2018 17:40:22 GMT
Thanks for that. What a cumbersome mess though. Why on earth should you have to type such a long phrase? Similar problems exist elsewhere in the Single Fare Finder - grrrr. How is the average person with no knowledge of TfL minutiae supposed to cope with this? Having now tried with the correct phrase the fares are actually there including some truly wacky "avoiding Zone 1" pink validator / OSI routes if you pick a start station on the other side of London. EDIT - having tweeted about this on Twitter I've had a reply from TfL who say the issue is being looked at as a priority. I've given them some feedback to try to make it easier to bring up the full list of Heathrow station options. Indeed, trying to find the Heathrow TfL Rail fares is pretty impossible as is. You'd have thought someone would have checked this before it rolled out - this being a significant change, but good to see TfL actively looking into it.
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Post by howda62 on May 20, 2018 10:36:21 GMT
At least some of the fares do appear to be there in the Single Fare Finder. However the TFL Rail Heathrow stations do not appear in the drop down boxes when you just type 'Heathrow'. If you start typing 'Heathrow Terminal Rail' in the box, the drop down list shows 'Heathrow Terminals 1-3 Rail Station', 'Heathrow Terminal 4 Rail Station' and 'Heathrow Terminal 5 Rail Station' in the options. Fares from Heathrow Rail to Paddington come up as £10.20 peak, £10.10 off-peak, and fares to other Zone 1 underground stations (e.g. Baker Street) come up as £12.10 peak and £10.10 off-peak. (Apologies I can't seem to get a Url that preloads the source/destination into the fare finder.) Hopefully the clumsiness of the interface for these fares will be sorted out soon.
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Post by howda62 on Apr 27, 2018 19:44:45 GMT
For 2, if it's Not Gum, it Is-Lip
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Post by howda62 on Mar 16, 2018 11:10:33 GMT
Top Inset C is Mumbles Pier, picture taken a few years ago before the new lifeboat station was built at the end of the pier.
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Post by howda62 on Dec 23, 2017 10:06:18 GMT
B - Between Kenton and South Kenton. Footbridge off Conway Gardens to Northwick Park
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Post by howda62 on Dec 14, 2017 10:18:41 GMT
I've used the following iPhone app by RyanTCB for several years to check on train locations, and found it very useful for example to work out whether to target Baker Street or Marylebone for a train home. It's not map based, but in destination board style shows up to next 4 trains due into a selected station's platform (with train number, destination and estimation to time due). itunes.apple.com/gb/app/tube-london-underground/id528915585?mt=8It's just recently been redesigned for iOS 11. The same author also has an iTrackernet app (which I have had installed for a while but only rarely use - I was getting warnings that the above app wouldn't work with iOS 11 so was looking around for alternatives, only to be pleasantly surprised after upgrading to iOS 11 that a brand new iOS 11 version had been released) which can be used to locate trains on lines by their number. Or you can scroll through a small window to show all trains running on a line. This might be closer to what you're looking for than the above app, it's a shame the scrolling window is quite small if you're trying to see all trains. itunes.apple.com/gb/app/itrackernet/id527661890?mt=8
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Post by howda62 on Nov 22, 2017 17:36:19 GMT
Not sure about test trains running, but the news article mentions the loop signalling being commissioned over the weekend 1st-3rd November 85, so it seems perfectly possible there had been test runs of the 73 stock prior to the unexpected journey.
Incidentally, it's just as well that the loop construction was completed well ahead of T4 opening, as the new tunnel at Hatton Cross suffered 2 inches of subsidence and fortunately there was time to correct the problem ahead of the April opening.
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Post by howda62 on Nov 22, 2017 15:36:47 GMT
There is some brief mention of it in Underground News Issue 289 (Jan 1986): linkQuote: The royal opening of the loop was on 1st April 1986 with passenger services starting on 7th April (ahead of the T4 station opening, so initially non-stopping the station). There are some details on the T4 loop construction and opening in Underground News Issue 294: link
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Post by howda62 on Nov 5, 2017 10:30:42 GMT
Both images are on the LTM Photo Collection site with some associated descriptions (image dates given as around 1905/1906): linkFor me at least the site currently seems to be a bit broken as the server times out when viewing beyond the search result page.
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Post by howda62 on Nov 1, 2017 15:35:24 GMT
Roundel at south eastern entrance to Aldgate East. 31st October 1938 was the date the station opened having been relocated east from its original location.
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Post by howda62 on Oct 26, 2017 9:52:09 GMT
Chiltern already run 4tph during the morning peak, 2 of which are non-stop after Amersham, I don't think (at least hope not) that'll be reduced. These run alongside the existing 4tph Met service from Amersham. I'm not sure why the recent public timetables summary page have cited only a 2tph Amersham-Aldgate peak service, possibly the 2 semi-fasts are not counted because you can catch a later Chiltern to get into London sooner. I wonder if the new timetable will have a better clockface timing with a true 15 minute interval between Met trains, and I really hope the fasts are retained.
The current morning Amersham Met peak service is improved from a few years ago though when the Chesham shuttle was running and there was only a 4tph Met service south of Chalfont - and with 2 Chesham through trains taking 2 of those slots in the 7am-8am hour, it left only 2 Met trains southbound from Amersham during that peak hour. A bizarre situation making the Amersham Met off-peak service double that of the peak. Now at least it's a combined 6tph Met service south of Chalfont throughout the peak.
I too wonder what the off peak service frequency will be like.
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Post by howda62 on Sept 12, 2017 9:16:06 GMT
There were posters up yesterday saying that due to the Spurs match tomorrow evening, the early closing for Met work was being cancelled (or possibly for shorter hours - was in a rush and didn't read all the details). Perhaps the extra overnight work on Sunday morning/evening is to compensate for Wednesday?
When this long running Met work was planned I wonder how it was estimated how many times the work would be suspended due to Wembley events, and is Spurs using the ground for home matches having any impact on those estimates?
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Post by howda62 on Sept 5, 2017 20:27:26 GMT
I got onto a southbound Met at Harrow at approx 12:35 headed for Aldgate (had changed off a Chiltern service and unaware there were any issues on the Met). It made slightly slower progress than normal (maybe 5mins extra) up until Wembley Park, then pretty much as normal to Finchley Road. Due to the slow travel I did look up the status on the TFL homepage (at about 12:45) - it said severe delays and that the line was expected to be completely closed for 45 minutes from 13:30. I just checked the tubestatus link above and it was the message as listed for 12:45. I noticed there were northbound Met trains running north of Finchley Road. Perhaps by around 12:50 the northbound service had just resumed. I'm not sure whether the southbound train I was on was the first southbound, I didn't have to wait at all at Harrow - but it was barely half full.
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Post by howda62 on Sept 5, 2017 17:36:48 GMT
4th inset looks like one of the buildings in the gardens at Chatsworth House
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Post by howda62 on Aug 26, 2017 8:50:15 GMT
OK, so similarly armed let's try: 3. Wilford Village 4. Rivergreen 6. Bulwell
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Post by howda62 on Jul 30, 2017 9:10:06 GMT
I noticed this on Friday, and a gang of workers there. I didn't think this would be related to any Met Line Extension work though, seems too far away for that unless related to the substation in some way? I grabbed a couple of shots yesterday morning. They seem to have a storage area next to the track boundary, with what looks like steel reinforcement mesh for concreting. So might be creating a ground base for a new building? Is this on LU land or private land? IMG_0219a by Howda62, on Flickr IMG_0219b by Howda62, on Flickr
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Post by howda62 on Jul 28, 2017 6:53:00 GMT
All are locations near to a station with 'Park' in the name? Is Wimbledon Park (C) the only one with an actual park matching the station name?
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Post by howda62 on Jul 25, 2017 8:10:15 GMT
The original image appears to have 3 V shapes added. So all include letter V in the name except Aldgate East?
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Post by howda62 on Jul 24, 2017 8:02:11 GMT
Mile End Ecology Park?
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Post by howda62 on Jun 24, 2017 10:11:26 GMT
A - Maybe south of Chesham looking from Latimer Road area?
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Post by howda62 on Jun 17, 2017 7:57:09 GMT
I'll head westwards and try the Pierhead Building Cardiff for the inset.
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Post by howda62 on Jun 10, 2017 20:24:43 GMT
The white rectangular shape in the bottom right corner appears to be a station name sticker. The writing is backwards and appears to end in 'ford', so maybe C is Stratford with 2009 being when the new NLL platforms were built?
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Post by howda62 on Jun 10, 2017 8:19:58 GMT
Chalfont & Latimer +1 - does look like the bay platform
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Post by howda62 on Jun 10, 2017 8:18:23 GMT
D - Paddington Praed Street?
Assuming C might be platform extension work somewhere on Tfl Rail, all locations to be served by Crossrail? Paddington odd one out as those platforms not served by Crossrail trains?
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Post by howda62 on May 28, 2017 7:02:41 GMT
Barons Court
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