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Post by revupminster on Dec 2, 2012 22:18:00 GMT
If you could get it up to 6tph three could be extended to Grays to supplement the Rainham service.
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Post by revupminster on Nov 29, 2012 11:10:51 GMT
A few years ago there was a N guague layout at Acton open day that featured the Harrow area with main line, surface stock and tube stock. I cannot remember its name and cannot find it on you tube.
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Post by revupminster on Nov 15, 2012 10:57:50 GMT
Bromley by Bow to Upminster was often called bandit country in my day. Elm Park was lovely in the seventies when the Elm Park hotel was a hotel. It then became a drug pub as did the phone in the booking hall at Elm Park and the toilets were a haven of needles. If you rang the BT police at East Ham they would be along on the next train!!! When cameras came in they would be along the next day.
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Post by revupminster on Nov 15, 2012 7:54:25 GMT
I worked at West Ham in the seventies and remember taking the takings from West Ham to Plaistow but it was not that unusual. The same happened between Shoreditch and Whitechapel. In the sixties as a small 16 year old I was sent from Embankment to Victoria to get a £100 bag of silver. They always had plenty and Embankment was always short. It was heavy and I used to stand in the train doorway with the bag between my feet. The Station Master at Shadwell used to walk through watney Street market to the bank and everybody knew what he had in his hand. He never used the poachers pocket of his uniform and always wore his uniform hat which he was not supposed to.
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Post by revupminster on Nov 13, 2012 18:42:51 GMT
Corfe Castle or Hadleigh castle if that is the Thames in the background
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Post by revupminster on Nov 8, 2012 14:00:33 GMT
Passed West Ham station on the C2C and did I see the Olympic footbridge had gone? If so when?
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Post by revupminster on Nov 5, 2012 8:54:53 GMT
Bow Road westbound
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Post by revupminster on Oct 31, 2012 0:02:38 GMT
It's a good spot for short working. Better than West Ham in that there is no time wasted detraining on the platform (or can passengers be reversed in the siding with the train?) but bad in that you have to cross the down line to get out... That is an interesting point. As all shunt moves could be made using colour light signals and the siding is multidirectional then passengers could be taken into the siding and reversed out. Am I right???
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Post by revupminster on Oct 30, 2012 7:30:23 GMT
wapping
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Post by revupminster on Oct 27, 2012 10:09:41 GMT
Station D Kennigton
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Post by revupminster on Oct 18, 2012 6:27:24 GMT
It looks new. is it for drivers timekeeping? Either a terminus or near sidings. I'll try Upney.
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Post by revupminster on Oct 16, 2012 22:57:46 GMT
The reason I sent the Upminster picture is because I believe it was the first time an Underground engineers train has used the Romford - Upminster line to replace track. They have used the C2C to replace westbound track when C2C put in single linw working between Barking and Upminster to accomodate the engineers trains. Simple for them with bi-directional signaling.
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Post by revupminster on Oct 7, 2012 6:36:04 GMT
was not Bank and Monument at one time to be renamed Bank but the fire brigade objected as it was easier to identify where to go if the stations retained there names. Same problem with named stands at football grounds. it is easier to identify a stand by North, East, South, or West.
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Post by revupminster on Oct 6, 2012 20:48:09 GMT
Best thing about bikes on the underground was when they scrapped bicycle fares (late 70's I think) they had to scrap dog fares.
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Post by revupminster on Oct 5, 2012 6:16:59 GMT
They run two or three a year from Southend usually via Upminster to pick up passengers but this Saturday via Grays because of engineering work. The train is usually too long for the twelve coach platform at Upminster and will be too long for the Barking pick ups. A quarter of the train will be outside the platform. The seats are very expensive compared to other operators but are still full. Keeps out the plebs. It reminds me of when LU ran a steam special and set fire to the trackside between Upminster and Barking and going further back of steam engineers trains standing at Aldgate East smoking the booking hall out.
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Post by revupminster on Oct 4, 2012 17:16:04 GMT
Surely this was what the King lever was for and was used throughout the underground. Whitechapel district used to control Whitechapel east London which worked automatically either in reversing mode or through working to shoreditch with the flick of a lever. I can just remember the signal box on the southbound platform East London line that had about 6 levers of which one must have been a king lever.
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Post by revupminster on Oct 3, 2012 9:48:00 GMT
No C2C between Barking and Upminster either. Trains are coming from Pitsea via Laindon reversing at Upminster to Grays via Ockendon. Then change for a train to Barking. With West Ham v Arsenal lets hope they are all 8 coachs as it it only a half hour service. Chaos predicted.
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Post by revupminster on Sept 22, 2012 18:19:24 GMT
Passed Horchurch on the C2C What are they doing at Hornchuch that requires three ballast trains with a 66 (I think) at each end, a tamping machine, another engineers train with a battery loco at each end. They are also replacing the platform nosing stones at Upminster.
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Post by revupminster on Sept 21, 2012 18:42:06 GMT
This engineering work is required to replace the Victorian infrastructure that so often delays the service Not Victorian, Georgian, George V that is!
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Post by revupminster on Sept 21, 2012 9:04:10 GMT
Arsenal is 530pm kick off and the trains are going to run 2pm - 11pm West Ham to Upminster. I note this is an H&C service with 5 C Stock running every 7½mins West Ham-Barking, using both platforms at West Ham. I am sure this changed again as you say leaving only a service between West Ham and Barking. and this Saturday the publicity seems to show a service between Plaistow and Dagenham east approx 0730hrs with an all day service between West Ham and Plaistow. How will they provide a train between West Ham and Plaistow unles one is left overnight. I realise this is all to do with getting class 66 locos upto Hornchurch under possesion. www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/livetravelnews/realtime/track.aspx?offset=weekend
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Post by revupminster on Sept 19, 2012 12:34:42 GMT
I would like to construct a model railway but can't get planning permission from 'er indoors.
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Post by revupminster on Sept 19, 2012 6:19:59 GMT
Disabled protesters. I just realised its a stairwell. try Leicester Square.
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Post by revupminster on Sept 18, 2012 6:37:51 GMT
The 3-bed houses in Savage Gardens now change hands for around £230k. Great address, Savage Gardens, sounds like a cheap horror film. I looked at house being built in Savage Gardens and it was a very clever design with a bathroom with a door into the hall and a second door into the main bedroom like an en suite. But the roads were very narrow. They also had coach flats over an entry to a paking that I liked but she who must be obeyed did not and we moved to Hornchurch.
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Post by revupminster on Sept 17, 2012 14:55:42 GMT
But surely there would be no harm in a bigger entrance? West Ham has a lot of potential. Oh yes I see the Police Station although I'm not sure the idea behind purchasing it? The area does have potential but it has had a poor history. In the sixties Newham council put all the bad rent payers in the flats, and properties in Savage Garden Beckton. Savage Gardens was completely rebuilt by a developer in the early eighties. Newham then had the idea of putting teachers in the flats but that failed to improve the area. Then Barrett had a go and refurbished the flats and it still did not work. The coal yards near Star Lane were devloped 20 years ago but the area just will not improve. Canning Town is undergoing its umpteenth redvelopment but you can't make silk purses out of sows ears. I spent 26 years in Plaistow.
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Post by revupminster on Sept 17, 2012 8:18:33 GMT
Google satellite has the footbidge and the BT police building marked. The police station is massive compared to the office on East Ham platform that it replaced. I think it only came into its own during the Olympics but it was not built for that.
As for the gateline West Ham like the Royal Docks has never developed despite its good transport connections. West Ham FC was seen as a catalyst like Spurs in Tottenham but its not going to happen. Its primarily an interchange station so does not need a big gateline.
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Post by revupminster on Sept 17, 2012 6:22:07 GMT
i believe once the temporary staircase removed and there will be space for future permanent exit with lift to proper ticket hall but land needs developed in housing zone They would not need an extra lift. Just knock through the existing wall into the space between the station and the Transport police building. They may already own the land or the Olympic legacy company does.
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Post by revupminster on Sept 13, 2012 19:50:31 GMT
It looks like they can remove the Bromley by Bow crossover as well during the October possesion
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Post by revupminster on Sept 13, 2012 6:25:06 GMT
Brunel's thames crossing between Wapping and Rotherhithe
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Post by revupminster on Sept 12, 2012 18:41:05 GMT
Arsenal is 530pm kick off and the trains are going to run 2pm - 11pm West Ham to Upminster.
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Post by revupminster on Sept 12, 2012 16:47:33 GMT
Might have known the District would have work at the east end when West Ham are at home although credit to them they are opening up the line for the matches against Sunderland and Arsenal. The unusual times must be to allow the class 66's to get into position under possesion. Wonder if the crossover at Hornchuch is to be replaced.
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