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Post by gantshill on Mar 18, 2024 17:26:30 GMT
Both C and D look familiar. Is C on the 1930's Piccadilly extension to Cockfosters. D has a hint of Russell Square.
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Post by gantshill on Mar 11, 2024 8:27:44 GMT
Nood Stop is Flemish/Dutch for Emergency Stop. I'll suggest that it is from the pedestrian tunnel under the River Scheldt (spelling?) in Antwerp, which when I visited it many years ago had wooden treads on its escalators.
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Post by gantshill on Mar 5, 2024 14:04:26 GMT
B is Shepherd's Bush.
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Post by gantshill on Feb 28, 2024 22:17:30 GMT
It looks like Metroland to me. Somewhere between Wembley Park and Preston Road?
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Post by gantshill on Feb 23, 2024 7:23:26 GMT
B: Hatton Cross +1 C: Cannon Street +2
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Post by gantshill on Feb 20, 2024 17:45:21 GMT
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Post by gantshill on Feb 15, 2024 8:42:48 GMT
The names aren't bad at all. I like the reasoning behind the names as well. My worry is purely alphabetical, as there will be two Overground lines beginning with a W (along with the Waterloo & City line), and two beginning with Li. I could imagine just seeing the beginning of a travel update and wondering if "my" line was affected. Although as currently a part suspension of the Overground might be in an entirely different part of London, then at least it will reduce confusion.
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Post by gantshill on Jan 27, 2024 9:34:18 GMT
Goodge Street +1. As an aside, when I used to commute to Goodge Street in the mid/late 1990s, the staff were expert at operating the lifts to clear the waiting commuters swiftly. Other nearby stations with lifts never managed to move the crowds as quickly.
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Post by gantshill on Jan 25, 2024 8:24:51 GMT
Teddington Weir for the inset? +1 for Teddington Weir
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Post by gantshill on Jan 24, 2024 9:19:32 GMT
I'm going to suggest that the pictures are of Victoria (an unidentified corridor) and Victoria (bridge over the Circle and District lines). The reason - is is the anniversary of Queen Victoria's death?
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Post by gantshill on Jan 18, 2024 21:43:30 GMT
Probably predicting which Wimbledon train would arrive first, one from Edgware Road into pfm.4 or one from the City into pfm.3 or 4? It was definitely the same train, as the next Wimbledon train was five minutes behind it.
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Post by gantshill on Jan 18, 2024 14:19:03 GMT
I had an interesting experience at Earl's Court yesterday evening (17th January) at about 8pm.
I was waiting for a Wimbledon train, which started nine minutes away. It did arrive at the time expected, but the platform DMIs kept flashing "Information Update" and the actual platform kept swapping between 3 and 4. I didn't keep any sort of careful record, but it must have swapped over at least a dozen times.
I presume that this is all an automated process, although it did make waiting for the train quite disconcerting. Most of us were stood in the middle of the island, waiting for the train to actually arrive before moving to the correct platform.
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Post by gantshill on Jan 7, 2024 17:39:21 GMT
Honesty is the best policy! They could have at least described the disruption as ........ 'due to the unavailability of platforms at Wimbledon' Happily and helpfully, at East Putney a handwritten notice informed passengers that there was only one out of four platforms available at Wimbledon, so there would only be trains every 10 minutes.
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Post by gantshill on Dec 11, 2023 19:56:00 GMT
I did travel on the 1996 stock, but alas don't recall the voice. I saw the stock when it visited Woodford, then one time I was on Charing Cross station I think just trying to get to Bond Street, when a 1996 stock came out of the overrun tunnels. I decided to travel at least as far as West Hampstead, so I could see the stock in the open. I think that I moved along a couple of cars so that I had a ride on two different versions, but I cannot now remember the colour of the train or the sound of the voice.
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Post by gantshill on Dec 11, 2023 19:53:05 GMT
I've been away, without access to a PC, trying to do the crossword on a phone was impossible.
Anyway, here are my guesses:
4D: Shadwell 5D: Bond Street 9D: HAI 18D: Northfields 11A: Island Gardens 21A: Edgware 26A: Loughton 31A: Putney Bridge
I'm sure that if I now went back and looked at the letters that now appear in other clues, I'd get a few more.
As ever, thanks to Chris for the Crossword, and to those who organised the DD meet.
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Post by gantshill on Dec 4, 2023 13:50:43 GMT
Somewhere on the former Great Eastern Railway?
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Post by gantshill on Dec 2, 2023 18:33:54 GMT
....... Could they not have closed platforms 3/4 (Westbound), but used platforms 1 and 2 (normally both Eastbound) for one Eastbound and one Westbound service? I note that others have said that this idea would not be do-able. I am not suggesting otherwise, but the idea reminded me that some years ago I read an article in Underground News about some wrong line running somewhere between Acton Town and Baron's Court, where the Piccadilly line was slewed across, to allow this to happen. I don't remember many details, other than there being a desk at the end of a platform where staff gave wrong-line permission slips to give the drivers the OK to proceed. I think the situation lasted for a long weekend. Possibly for a bridge replacement. Perhaps one of our better historians could give more details. Anyway, this is slightly off topic for South Ealing.
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Post by gantshill on Nov 27, 2023 17:42:25 GMT
Sadly, I cannot join you, as I am out of London that weekend.
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Post by gantshill on Nov 25, 2023 9:02:05 GMT
Thames Tunnel +1.
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Post by gantshill on Nov 15, 2023 13:20:05 GMT
Is D Bond Street? Both that station and Marble Arch have that style of blue name band.
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Post by gantshill on Nov 14, 2023 7:05:09 GMT
I'll start the ball rolling with B being Redbridge.
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Post by gantshill on Nov 13, 2023 10:19:25 GMT
North Weald +1
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Post by gantshill on Nov 8, 2023 20:48:47 GMT
Royal Oak could be the odd one out, as it was a GWR station, while the other three were on lines fully or partly owned by the Met.
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Post by gantshill on Nov 7, 2023 13:51:04 GMT
I've always wondered about the layout of the Central line platforms and the access to Broad Street. Does anyone know if any plans are accessible in the public domain?
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Post by gantshill on Nov 7, 2023 7:54:22 GMT
A looks like Aldgate East.
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Post by gantshill on Nov 6, 2023 17:47:31 GMT
I had meant to post this a week ago. On the Friday 27th October, I was travelling from Cannon Street to East Putney. I had to change at Earls Court, and noticed that a "Stops Here" train was due to arrive just after my Wimbledon train was leaving and that there was a second Wimbledon train about 4 minutes after the first one. So I caught the first one and got off at Parsons Green. Sure enough an empty train (033) then arrived at Parsons Green but then it sat in the platform for three or four minutes. I noticed that the driver walked through the train, back to at least the fifth car, before returning to the cab and then taking the train into one of the sidings. The following Wimbledon train was sitting behind the terminating train for some while.
A couple of weeks before I had been on a Parsons Green terminator and even though the train was not crowded, it took some time for everyone to be cleared from the train before it moved off. This wasn't helped by the platform DMI having changed from "Terminates Here" to "Wimbledon" while the terminating train was sill in the platform, so two or three people jumped on the train.
I can see why the decision was made to run out of service from Earl's Court.
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Post by gantshill on Nov 1, 2023 10:12:37 GMT
I was going to suggest Brent Cross, as it has that 1926 Northern Line Edgware extension vibe. But I suspect that ianr is right. Hendon Central +1
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Post by gantshill on Oct 31, 2023 9:41:44 GMT
Is A Gggggants Hill?
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Post by gantshill on Oct 29, 2023 15:45:14 GMT
I'm sure I have walked along that road, I think that it is close to the Thames - Wapping + 1
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Post by gantshill on Oct 28, 2023 8:52:38 GMT
Hyde Park Corner?
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