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Post by pgb on May 21, 2008 5:56:25 GMT
They all have lifts to ground level (of some type!) apart from Ruislip?
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Post by pgb on May 20, 2008 16:28:01 GMT
I'd go with D, but suggest that it's Northern Line Southbound. (Not that it probably matters!)
Edit = on picture A could somebody clean underneath the seats? The amount of dust is spectacular!
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Post by pgb on May 20, 2008 6:56:27 GMT
A is Terminal 4
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Post by pgb on May 17, 2008 5:30:39 GMT
Dollis Hill?
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Post by pgb on May 8, 2008 6:49:02 GMT
I'd say C is Bank somewhere looking at the tiles, A is definitely The Cross, D is Whitechapel, not sure where B is.
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Post by pgb on Apr 23, 2008 21:50:03 GMT
I PM'd early this morning my suggestion, but got the station wrong. So knowing that the reason is correct, I'll go with Southwark because of what is nearby.
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Post by pgb on Apr 20, 2008 21:17:13 GMT
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Post by pgb on Apr 17, 2008 17:05:19 GMT
Has Queens Park been taken over by TFL? If so they are all former BR stations that have been taken over by LT/TFL? Apart from Morden of course.
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Post by pgb on Apr 10, 2008 7:52:18 GMT
White City as a guess and the putting green at Shanklin Isle of Wight as a definite
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Post by pgb on Apr 16, 2006 21:26:10 GMT
I always thought that the gates of slade prison was actually filmed near St. Albans in Hertfordshire and so I'd always thought that it was one of the stations on the St Albans Abbey Branch. But I have no evidence to back this up!
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Post by pgb on Dec 22, 2007 19:54:14 GMT
I think, although I'm not sure that the male voice is used for out-of-course announcements to draw your attention to it. I first heard it when Westminster was still being built and it came up with "Attention - Westminster Station is closed" or something like that.
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Post by pgb on Dec 14, 2007 19:05:18 GMT
It wont be quite the same line without them really. Gone will be the days of a a train arriving in a heap because the drivers had to give the train a hint that it's a good idea to stop in the station. One of my first memories on the tube is of a Vic Driver on a 67ts reading a paper as the train came in!
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Post by pgb on Dec 21, 2007 23:12:32 GMT
Yeah, a few years for me as well. I got an information pack from the company as well which makes for interesting reading. I tend to do RAIB reporting in my job plus all the reports which are needed to follow things up. To report something to the RAIB is a lot simpler than reporting things to HMRI as you don't have to go through a small minefield of criteria to work out whether x or y is reportable (just in case you get poked in your eye with a pencil whilst doing a crossword in a waiting room at a station - it isn't reportable!) Mind you, it does help that I know the vice-boss as he used to be Operations Director where I currently work.
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Post by pgb on Jul 2, 2007 17:03:56 GMT
I would assume more that the heritage railway cynics are jealous of said railway near a dead dogs grave than anything else. Yes they do get a lot of funding, but there again, they have marketed themselves for funding. I'm sure if other railways did the same and had a target which was as popular as said railway then they too could get public funding.
All heritage railways suffer from a critical lack of funding from all round and will quite often go cap in hand. They do whatever they can to try meet their objectives. A lot of this is done through volunteer labour. However, the SVR is suffering from an act of God. This is something that volunteer labour can't do quickly or easily. It needs professional contractors to do the work.
Whilst volunteer labour can help a bit, it needs the right kind of people to do the job. The railway near the dead dogs grave has a very young (in comparison) volunteer force, whilst the SVR doesn't have this volunteer resource. People will travel far and wide to rebuild this railway and a bit of positive marketing could easily do the same for the SVR.
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Post by pgb on Oct 6, 2006 20:58:39 GMT
Just out of interest, is RHTT the same as Sandite, or is that something different? Ahh, memories of two car EPBs painted in a funny railtrack orange colour.
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Post by pgb on Oct 6, 2006 19:49:15 GMT
RHTT is the Rail Head Treatment Train.
In other words, its leaf fall season and its the time of year where they try to avoid trains slipping all over the place by putting down a mixture to enable better adhesion.
Phil
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Post by pgb on Apr 19, 2006 16:34:01 GMT
Phil is most definitely correct and of course there is more to it. Preserved lines are subject to just the same Health and Safety Legislation as any other line. I currently do the operating (traffic) rosters for Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland lines (which includes Crossing Keepers, Signalmen, Guards and Controllers) and it is a two stage process. You have the advance roster and the actual roster. The advance Roster or ARO for shows how many volunteers are required to run that service. When people give their availability they go in to the ARO until the roster is produced. This then allows, at a glance to see how full/sparse the weeks and can inform people accordingly. Rather than circulate a list of services, we allow people to just book the times themselves. Guest Driver turns can normally be found at the weekends, but generally the timetable is as published in the leaflet. Where volunteers are in short supply then we will use the paid staff in order of rank i.e. lowest paid first normally to man the turns (as long as they are qualified to do so).
Normally 4 weeks in advance the roster will be emailed out to people who work for the department to show where the gaps are. It will also appear on the volunteer website. Where my name appears it is highlighted to show people that they are quite welcome to take that turn. Volunteers must complete a certain number of turns to retain their ticket each year.
We do have unsociable turns, but generally, apart from Specials, most turns start no earlier than 0730 and finish no later than 2130. There are Specials that don't finish until 2300 and I have found myself still sat in the office at 0200 the following day waiting for a special to terminate. On one occasion we ran for 84 hours continuously and one of my colleagues got the dubious responsibility of being in the Control Office from 2200 until 0800 the following morning.
In terms of which unit/loco to take, it is slightly different for the FR. We have three rakes of six corridor coaches which are standard sets. These are strengthened each morning as required. One of the first jobs for the line controller is to get out his Crystal Ball and gaze into the clouds to work out how many of the great unwashed will descend on the train. We do have a slight bit of help with coach party's that have pre-booked like WA Shearings etc. About six weeks before this, the Operating Manager or myself on the odd occasion will look at the groups booked for the day and submit a locomotive request form. This will ask the locomotive department for a particular size of loco, which is normally one that can pull up to 6, 8 or 12 coaches. This then allows for maitenance to go on.
When a driver comes in for the morning of his shift, the loco supervisor will have used this request form and made a loco of that size available for service. The driver then has to search the works to try and find where somebody has hidden it! Or he looks on the board, which says where it **should** be. Normally, the rostered turn would be two return trips which is around ten hours with prep and disposal times included. At the end of the day, the driver will fill in the fault book if required and flag up if the loco is fit for traffic or not.
Hope that gives an idea of how it all works
Phil
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Post by pgb on Feb 8, 2008 21:46:36 GMT
It appeared to be suspended totally by the time I got down there, but thanks for the info.
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Post by pgb on Feb 8, 2008 21:10:36 GMT
Whilst there is a thread with this title....why was it shut on Wednesday evening? I arrived in London just after four and having made my way from St. Pancras to Oxford Circus found the platforms wedged solid and an announcement saying that the loop was closed. No formal thing saying why, just that you had to use local bus services.
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Post by pgb on Jan 31, 2008 18:06:23 GMT
Nor did I. I'm assuming it's so that drivers retain familiarity with how to drive without affecting the timetable. However, I'm sure the other weekend we were in ATO, but I could be wrong. The stopping tends to give it away when it's in Manual Mode, mind you, the stopping when it's wet gives it away that it's in ATO!
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Post by pgb on Apr 8, 2008 6:13:20 GMT
A is Waterloo and D is Stratford. Not sure about B - although it does look like Kings Cross near the Pentonville Road exit. My only guess for C would be somewhere on the Eastern End of the Central.
No idea on the link between them at the moment.
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Post by pgb on Apr 2, 2008 11:17:59 GMT
Is Number 4 Embankment somewhere. I've been near that station recently, but can't for the life of me think where it is!
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Post by pgb on Apr 1, 2008 20:53:07 GMT
I thought the pattern was Tottenham Court Road, doesn't that have disgusting colours somewhere!?
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Post by pgb on Apr 1, 2008 9:34:41 GMT
Yup, I'll go with Museum Station in Sidney. It runs off overhead for power, which could also account for it.
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Post by pgb on Feb 13, 2008 12:32:28 GMT
It looks modern where ever it is! So, gonna guess somewhere on the DLR. Now I haven't seen Pudding Mill Lane for a while, so I'll go with that.
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Post by pgb on Feb 7, 2008 21:31:22 GMT
Having just returned from London, is that High Barnet?
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Post by pgb on Feb 4, 2008 7:49:48 GMT
Yup! I am. Put Old Street originally because of the type of metalwork above the sign. Remembered thinking it looked very 70s when I was heading to the Bavarian Beer House (highly recommended!) back in December. This time, I managed to convince myself that there werent any emergency stairs at Old Street.
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Post by pgb on Feb 3, 2008 7:07:59 GMT
Wild guess here, Old Street?
edit: make that Moorgate Northern Line
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Post by pgb on Jan 29, 2008 17:55:34 GMT
It's somewhere where I've been within the last couple of weeks. Remember thinking it looked like a swimming pool tiling.
And the word Waterloo has just sprung to mind. Exit from Waterloo and City line??
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Post by pgb on Jan 29, 2008 7:30:09 GMT
I'd take a wild guess at Green Park
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