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Post by pgb on Sept 3, 2006 19:05:24 GMT
The red bits on the destination board normally carried specific information like Train Cancelled (normally at the top) or Front Four Coaches (followed by a list of stations). I can't quite read the two red bits on that one though.
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Post by pgb on Aug 1, 2006 20:11:58 GMT
So the next little question is....The first picture on the above link is actually on a Station in Porthmadog. But which station? Quite easy really.
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Post by pgb on Jul 26, 2006 5:43:30 GMT
Number 3 - Atlantean?
Number 6 - Pool Valley BS is in Brighton I think, Gloucester Green is Oxford and Pool Meadow is Coventry?
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Post by pgb on May 21, 2006 18:35:26 GMT
And having had another brain wave, I've come up with:
Stockwell (do I get a bonus for starting with one that ends with an "L"?) > Waterloo > Green Park > Vauxhall
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Post by pgb on May 21, 2006 18:30:43 GMT
I've only just noticed my error anyway........since when did Poplar end in an "l" These late night finishes are playing havoc with my brain. Will think of another
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Post by pgb on May 18, 2006 18:06:00 GMT
Well, I'm late to go out, but here are my eleven
1) Camden Town > Warren Street > Kings Cross > Arsenal 2) Canary Wharf > West Ham > Bow Road (and from Bow Church - its shown as a connection) > Poplar 3) London Bridge > Westminster > Victoria > Stockwell 4) Bermondsy > Walterloo > Elephant > Stockwell 5) Bank > Elephant > Waterloo > Stockwell 6) Canary Wharf > London Bridge > Moorgate > Tower Hill 7) Westminster > London Bridge > Moorgate > Tower Hill 8) Kennington > London Bridge > Canada Water > Shadwell 9) Old Street > London Bridge > Canary Wharf > Shadwell 10) Canary Wharf > London Bridge > Moorgate > Whitechapel 11) Westminster > London Bridge > Moorgate > Whitechapel
I don't know whether the DLR counts, but as it is on the map....
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Post by pgb on May 18, 2006 17:56:47 GMT
Hmm, on nine at the minute but about to go out
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Post by pgb on May 14, 2006 19:20:01 GMT
if we start with the smallest, c=1 then a=10, b=2 and d=23. this is probably the right number, as if c=2, d would be 43, which seems too big. so C stock for 10, D stock for 3 and then another stock for 23 stations. I'll leave that bit for someone else to get! Never was any good at this sort of thing, but using the numbers from Amershami, here is something possible. Start off at Paddington on the H & C travel 10 stops to Aldgate East and change onto a D-Stock for three stops. This leads you to Mile End. Change for the Central Line. Can't go 23 stops Eastbound, but can do Westbound. Ealing is out as there aren't enough stops. So 23 stops from Mile End leads you to South Ruislip. Again, probally totally wrong. But an inspired guess.
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Post by pgb on May 6, 2006 22:27:30 GMT
Just a thought, but is it Southampton Airport Parkway? Served by Electrics to Waterloo and also Voyagers on the cross-country Network. Two stations missed out to the next major one would be Southampton Central (Swaythling and St. Denys) or Winchester (Eastleigh and Micheldever). The next station is a junction, which would be Eastleigh, but most Expresses don't stop there. If the next stop for this train is Winchester, then two stops down the line would be Basingstoke (Micheldever then Basingstoke), which as tubechallenger wrote is the outer suburban terminus. Probably totally wrong with this guess, but it is the only one that I can think of.
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Post by pgb on Mar 21, 2006 22:28:39 GMT
It isn't taken from the reversing siding at Debden is it? Just been looking on google Earth and that's the closest I can find to the photo.
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Post by pgb on May 17, 2007 17:26:03 GMT
Hi,
I've been around London for the last few days and whilst travelling in on the Met one morning I saw a sign that raised my curiosty.
It was on the Dollis Hill side of Willesden Green heading in the Southbound direction. Its position was between the Jubilee Line and the turnback siding and it was at the exit end of the turnback siding.
The sign itself was a white circle with a black triangle in it (I think). Sorry if there has been a previous thread on this, but I thought I'd write it down whilst it was still fresh in my mind.
Any ideas what it is?
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Post by pgb on Jan 29, 2008 7:54:04 GMT
IMHO (and experience) too many people are being overcharged by the "system". Another examples of being overcharged - weekend engineering. Glad somebody mentioned this as I've emailed TfL about a journey from Epping to Holborn the other Sunday, which had Epping to Leytonstone (touch out) Bus (Free) to Stratford Stratford (Touch in) to Liverpool Street NR (Out again) Liverpool Street Tube (in again) to Holborn (out) Now thankfully I'd been capped for the day, but I asked what the difference in fair would be because I believed I would be charged more. I got a phone call a week later from TfL so I could give them a bit more detail and apparently I was the first person to point this little issue out to them! Don't believe that, but its now in the hands of the technical lot apparently so I shall wait to see what happens.
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Post by pgb on Jan 29, 2008 18:21:41 GMT
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Post by pgb on Jan 28, 2008 19:26:04 GMT
A couple more have occurred to me: Blocking Back - a queue of trains one behind the other all being held by red signals. Signals clear & trains move up as the one at the front of the queue moves forward along the line. Not to be confused with Blocking Back on NR which is something completely different. Normally used by signalman.
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Post by pgb on Sept 22, 2006 19:32:57 GMT
Have just finished working with Metronet on a teambuilding exercise for the last two days. I'd just like to say what a thoroughly pleasant gang they were to work with.
And yes, Metronet have been in North Wales on a teambuilding mission. Three challenges were set, design and build a steam locomotive ashing out facility, driving a steam loco i.e listening to a set of instructions and acting on them immediately and finally there was the re-arrange the yard challenge (harder than it sounds)
Talking to them it was good to here that the problems we have on a smaller scale are still apparent on a bigger scale!
Will hopefully work with them again at some point.
Phil
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Post by pgb on Mar 29, 2006 22:14:20 GMT
Apologies if we have had this before, but a quick question.
What kind of areas are there in terms of delay attribution? For example: mechanical failure, personnel delays, etc. We have just introduced one at work, which at the moment only list mechanical problems and the boss says that it may go wider i.e. to customer delays etc. So I am wondering what areas that LU attribute to and how do you settle an argument over who that delay belongs to?
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Post by pgb on Mar 11, 2006 7:34:44 GMT
Eastenders is indeed filmed in Elstree (well Borehamwood actually) which is where I used to live. Every fortnight or so a Routemaster would appear in the High Street and could been seen parked on the set just under the tube bridge. The tube line itself only stretches for the length of the bridge spans. I used to watch Eastenders when I was younger and can remember three occasions where a train could be seen. As pointed out earlier, a C-Stock during Lou Beales funeral was one, a D-Stock on another episode and steam loco 80079 (I think) during the VE celebration episodes a few years back. On another note, Big Brother is now also filmed in Elstree, so if we here district whistles on that, the wind is very very strong. Hope that answers a few questions for people
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