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Post by revupminster on Mar 12, 2023 20:24:47 GMT
All the stations on the eastern end of the central line except those under eastern avenue in tube tunnels were ex BR built by earlier companies who provided a steam service. Similar in the west.
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Post by revupminster on Feb 6, 2023 7:24:52 GMT
Romford and Emerson Park because of the train.
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Post by revupminster on Feb 6, 2023 7:20:48 GMT
As a privilege card holder I am often given two singles instead of a day return as GWR has different fares in the rush hour. I often pay a dearer fare going up to London in the morning and a cheaper fare for the return in the evening.
If they do close the ticket offices I wonder how I will get a privilege fare in future or reserve a seat especially on line.
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Post by revupminster on Feb 4, 2023 7:18:21 GMT
Tower Hill?
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Post by revupminster on Jan 29, 2023 18:26:35 GMT
February Modern Railways has an article about Luminate Traffic Management that controls GWR and Anglia routes will be extended to take over the Elizabeth Line. It should allow delays due to failures be mitigated. A train sat down at Paddington might be difficult to get round.
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Post by revupminster on Dec 17, 2022 17:45:21 GMT
Dagenham East. Anybody fancy Becontree
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Post by revupminster on Nov 26, 2022 9:42:56 GMT
The Southend lines were considered in the original Crossrail plans before Abbey Wood was thought of. Abbey Wood came about because the original Jubilee plans to go there were abandoned even though the step-plate junction tunnels were built at North Greenwich.
This was at a time when no new small diameter tube lines would be built which was disregarded to build Battersea extension of the Northern Line. So there might still be hope for a Bakerloo Line extension.
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Post by revupminster on Nov 25, 2022 17:04:52 GMT
One journey I don't think the EL line caters for very well is The Fenchurch St line to Southend/Tilbury. I wonder now there is free capacity at Liverpool Street the idea of only opening Fenchurch Street during Mon - Fri rush hours will resurface, and other times trains will use the Goblin to Forest Gate junction as some do on Saturday.
I was thinking about this as I have to go from Paddington to Pitsea and if the EL is of any benefit or use my old route of Bakerloo, then Jubilee to West Ham.
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Post by revupminster on Nov 24, 2022 19:45:42 GMT
This 2015 post by North End has some figures for the Central line, but not for the sections either side of Stratford, suggesting that they are not among the steepest on the line. This 2017 thread is also worth a read, although it doesn't answer the question either. In a 2012 post mrfs42 estimated the gradients at Stratford to be about 1 in 31, and that thread also contains gradients (estimated and confirmed) for a few other points on the network In 2019 TfL refused a freedom of information request for gradients and speed limit data for the Central line. tubeprune notes on his website that (at least as of 2003) the steepest gradient on LU is 1 in 28 or 3.57% - between Bow Road and Bromley By Bow, District Line. I would have thought the gradient at Bow Road is one of the steepest. My father used to drive trains up it and said he never noticed any difference, or strain, on the motors.
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Post by revupminster on Aug 14, 2022 6:01:12 GMT
Glasgow Stadler train soon to be driverless?
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Post by revupminster on Jul 7, 2022 7:37:04 GMT
Background 1 Cannon Street Railway Bridge
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Post by revupminster on Jun 21, 2022 5:34:54 GMT
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Post by revupminster on Jun 20, 2022 16:42:56 GMT
Just watched the latest episode which featured a plan of possible future lines which included an embryo concept of Crossrail among many other extensions. The only one to be acted on was the completion of the Central Line extensions due to London's population dropping from 8 million to 5 million after the war; something I never realised. The country was also broke. The population never recovered to 8 million until the 1980s.
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Post by revupminster on May 1, 2022 6:43:33 GMT
What always surprised me considering the flash over destroyed the ticket machines in the booking hall was no staff killed (booking clerks, ticket collectors); they had all got out. Passenger directed up from the platforms were the ones killed as far as I remember.
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Post by revupminster on Apr 18, 2022 5:51:43 GMT
A Upminster Bridge
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Post by revupminster on Apr 14, 2022 8:51:46 GMT
Upton Park?
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Post by revupminster on Mar 16, 2022 7:06:55 GMT
C Arnos Grove
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Post by revupminster on Mar 5, 2022 6:43:34 GMT
A Dagenham East. Only one left if wrong.
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Post by revupminster on Mar 3, 2022 17:17:23 GMT
Eddie Dempsey was Great Western Railway station staff at Paddington mainline, elected secretary of Paddington No.1 Branch in 2010, elected to the National Executive Committee in 2016 and elected Assistant General Secretary in October last year. Fast worker... 2010-2022 sounds more like a sleeper than fast worker?
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Post by revupminster on Mar 3, 2022 16:58:57 GMT
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Post by revupminster on Mar 2, 2022 5:59:34 GMT
East Ham? English bond brickwork makes me think it is round there somewhere or on the Great Eastern.
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Post by revupminster on Feb 22, 2022 10:52:39 GMT
Tooting Broadway
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Post by revupminster on Feb 21, 2022 13:11:17 GMT
The power houses and depot covered an area of 20 acres built on the site of a house and garden known as Woodhouse Park. There was no Wood Lane station, to serve the 1908 Olympics, until 1908 when a loop was created.
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Post by revupminster on Feb 21, 2022 6:36:25 GMT
Inset South dock near One Park Drive
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Post by revupminster on Feb 20, 2022 18:23:15 GMT
Somewhere on the Great Eastern lines?
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Post by revupminster on Feb 8, 2022 6:09:05 GMT
C= Baker Street?
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Post by revupminster on Jan 30, 2022 6:23:13 GMT
It will probably still be just entry and exits through ticket gates on sample counts. How do they separate passengers using underground or BR at Barking or Upminster. How do BR do it at hundreds of unmanned stations.
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Post by revupminster on Jan 24, 2022 6:21:16 GMT
Beckton Park DLR
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Post by revupminster on Jan 21, 2022 8:14:52 GMT
A= Cannon Street in background, Kew Railway bridge in foreground.
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Post by revupminster on Jan 19, 2022 8:38:03 GMT
Dagenham East
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