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Post by hptraveller on Jun 1, 2022 22:21:11 GMT
Although not used for a permanent regular passenger service, the north side of Delta Junction did see a few daily passenger trains at the start and end of service (Tower to/from Poplar with passengers).
It was also occasionally used for Tower to/from Stratford direct services when the Island Gardens branch was closed for engineering, in the early years of DLR operations when work was being undertaken to prepare for two unit trains - this was before the policy of closure and bustitutution of the whole network after 2130 weekdays, and for the entire weekend, came into being.
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Post by hptraveller on Feb 15, 2022 20:14:27 GMT
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Post by hptraveller on Jul 14, 2021 14:05:15 GMT
I think you've misunderstood what work has been completed - the new southbound tunnel has not been linked into the existing and that's what this protracted closure is for. From memory I believe they will need to fill the existing tunnel with a foam of concrete and then re-bore through that to make an entirely new tunnel, rather than it being constructed as a step-plate junction. I think this approach is taken because of the risk of subsidence, especially with the southern connection where it's almost under the river. Happy to be corrected if I'm wrong.
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Post by hptraveller on Mar 7, 2021 23:00:49 GMT
Kentish Town West?
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Post by hptraveller on Jul 4, 2020 19:19:56 GMT
C - Charing Cross, link passage between the two Jubilee line concourses
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Post by hptraveller on Jun 2, 2020 18:22:27 GMT
All very well to hand over to Tfl, but the way things are they probably can't afford it. I don't think TfL would have the legal option of saying "Sorry guv, can't afford it now, you can sell it to someone else!". TfL will want to get the core running as soon as reasonably possible, because the fares and other revenue will be critical to offset the ongoing operational costs that can't be avoided (station staff, drivers, train leasing etc).
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Post by hptraveller on Mar 27, 2020 7:58:03 GMT
I can only echo what others have said above - very sad news and we've lost a wealth of knowledge.
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Post by hptraveller on Mar 11, 2020 6:34:00 GMT
CGL Rail (City Greenwich Lewisham Rail Link PLC) is the DBFO (design, build, finance and operate) concessionaire for the Lewisham extension. They are responsible for maintenance and things like servicing the ticket machines. Interestingly, their 24.5 year contract expires at the end of this month A small correction - the concession runs to the end of March 2021.
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Post by hptraveller on Feb 29, 2020 7:13:09 GMT
Yes, and there was a similar one above the top of the Piccadilly line escalators at King's Cross - I remember it appearing in news footage of the fire, displaying the time it stopped when the flashover occurred.
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Post by hptraveller on Dec 29, 2019 17:04:57 GMT
I'm sorry if my response sounded overly grumpy, but there are an awful lot of FOI requests (as you mention) that are not for useful and valuable information. There are a lot of geeky things that I could request, but I'm conscious that doing so undermines the whole basis for FOI to be freely requested on the current scale and basis - and would only hand the baton to those people in government who want to cut back on FOI.
In relation to TfL I would only consider requesting information directly impacting people - safety, performance, management, service development - that's when it is most valuable. Anyway, I'm going rather off-topic so I'll stop there and wish everyone a Happy New Year!
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Post by hptraveller on Dec 29, 2019 10:09:41 GMT
The ability to make FOI requests is welcome and means that useful information such as WTTs can be obtained - very helpful now that public timetables have been reduced in scope. The flip side of the coin is that requests can be made for information which has no real public interest value, and that is a waste of time and money for public bodies to respond to (such as this, or a request to know which particular Class 315 units were operating on particular diagrams on a specific day in the past) and that just unnecessarily give ammunition to those people who want to restrict or remove FOI rights. Please think "is this information really necessary" before making a request.
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Post by hptraveller on Nov 16, 2019 7:41:26 GMT
Unless my memory is completely failing me, the detailed safeguarding plans that I saw around 10-15 years ago had the alignment between Hackney and Leytonstone running underneath Coronation Gardens in Leyton, so that would have meant a route completely to the north of the A12 and Olympic Park. Bear in mind though that this safeguarding was based on a route planned in the 1990s, so before any notion of the Olympics and possibly even before the CTRL (Channel Tunnel Rail Link - now HS1) alignment was planned through Stratford.
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Post by hptraveller on Dec 9, 2018 9:24:45 GMT
Given how narrow the platforms are I very much doubt that you could put together a safety case for allowing wheelchair access to the platforms at Wapping - which rather negates the value of installing lifts.
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Post by hptraveller on Nov 30, 2018 20:48:53 GMT
Bishopsgate was the original planned name for what was actually opened as Shoreditch High Street. I guess they decided in the end not to repeat the GER's deceptive name of a century and a half before!
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Post by hptraveller on Jun 3, 2018 8:24:11 GMT
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Post by hptraveller on Dec 14, 2017 17:50:24 GMT
It looks like there wasn't originally a building on the road-side eastbound platform of the Silvertown station, which when the line was double-track would make sense as that platform would only have been for North Woolwich traffic. Instead the station building was on the westbound platform in the middle of the "V" junction between the Connaught Tunnel route and the Silvertown Tramway - hopefully this link works! goo.gl/images/uKV1bwI think the new (and final) station building on the (by now) single track line opened when the North London Line was diverted from Broad Street in the mid-80s, then had a mild makeover around 1989 for City Airport traffic (which never amounted to very much, given the target demographic of the airport's passengers).
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Post by hptraveller on Dec 6, 2017 17:49:36 GMT
I think the two Overground escalators you're looking for are at Rotherhithe, unless anything's changed since it reopened in 2010.
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