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Post by revupminster on Sept 12, 2012 6:46:52 GMT
C= Dagenham East brickwork looks like LT&SR
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Post by revupminster on Sept 11, 2012 13:34:04 GMT
It was only temporary and is very close to the flats and is not that convienent except for the fare dodgers. West Ham is still not a desirable destination and does not have much entry/exit traffic. It is merely a station one interchanges at in vast numbers probably exceeding all expectations. Many passengers change there for Westminster believing wrongly that it is quicker than staying on the district Line. It is meant to be knocked down in December. The only thing that might have saved it was if West Ham FC had developed the derelict parcelforce site as a new stadium.
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Post by revupminster on Sept 9, 2012 17:04:28 GMT
I was not saying Henly and Twyford passengers would fill a crossrail train. It would be the passengers changing at Reading to go to stations beyond Paddington that would. As it stands with a terminus at Maidenhead the passengers would be reluctant to change twice, first at Reading wait for a slow train and then change at Maidenhead. Maybe that is why trains will start empty from Paddington and go east to cater for Main line passengers. Reading could become a non stop station for long distance trains once Crossrail is up and running.
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Post by revupminster on Sept 6, 2012 23:33:47 GMT
Beauty and the Beast
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Post by revupminster on Sept 5, 2012 20:13:41 GMT
Not sure how may trains can be shown on the westbound platform. Three trains as well and with the destination which is a new because in the old days it was not until you got to Whitechapel that the indicators gave a destination. On the eastbound having three trains showing Terminates here is very depressing and a H&C going into the bay is the icing on the cake.
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Post by revupminster on Sept 4, 2012 11:58:06 GMT
Lucky to have a train indicator. For nearly 70 years Elm Park to Upminster have waited for a next train indicator and now some of them have indicators they do not work. Staff there used to wait for a phone call to tell them where the last train was. Up here passengers receive no information as to how long you have to wait.
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Post by revupminster on Sept 2, 2012 12:38:38 GMT
Heavy freight used to run on the East london Line between underground trains. I remember as a boy they would shake Wapping station as they passed through.
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Post by revupminster on Sept 1, 2012 18:54:23 GMT
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Post by revupminster on Sept 1, 2012 9:51:10 GMT
Hadrians Wall and ??
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Post by revupminster on Aug 31, 2012 21:27:57 GMT
Football grounds are covered by section 12 regulations and we get "Mr Moon is in the stadium" meaning a fire alarm has gone off. When checked out as a false alarm we get "Mr Moon has left the stadium" which always brings a big cheer, If a second alarm goes off then I suppose they automatically clear the stadium.
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Post by revupminster on Aug 30, 2012 14:01:35 GMT
Surely they could have moved the DLR tracks or the portals to give cross platform interchange. This design seems so short sighted.
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Post by revupminster on Aug 28, 2012 21:50:59 GMT
In my day despite staffing by Eastern region staff. the ticket machines Rapid/Mini printers were maintained by LT staff.
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Post by revupminster on Aug 27, 2012 16:26:44 GMT
Checking the plans for Crossrail dated December 1991 it was to branch beyond Paddington calling at Wembley Park, Harrow on the Hill, Moor Park, Rickmansworth, Choreleywood, Chalfont and Latimer, branch to Chesham, Amersham, Great Missenden, Wendover, Stoke Mandeville, and Aylesbury. at the time it seemed a good plan, better than reversing trains at Paddington. It would have probably led to the closure of Marylebone. Money then could not be found until Crossrail came under Tfl and the branch to Abbey Wood included as a replacement for the Jubilee extention southeast. The cost being the abandonment of Aylesbury and Reading cut back to Maidenhead. Reading will still happen and the station rebuild has made allowance for Crossrail to arrive there. There is a worry that Reading could fill the trains with passengers changing before the trains get to maidenhead.
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Post by revupminster on Aug 23, 2012 19:09:50 GMT
Does anyone one have experience of trainsimcentral. They used to be at model railway exhibitions but my computer always had trouble downloadin their material. at the shows it always looked impressive.
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Post by revupminster on Aug 23, 2012 17:31:19 GMT
Crossrail trains will be stabled at Old Oak Common in the west and Ilford in the east. In the east the intention is to run trains over the existing Liverpool St Shenfield section from May 2017 before the central section opens in 2018
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Post by revupminster on Aug 20, 2012 14:19:39 GMT
Crossrail to the East only serves Brentwood and Shenfield outside the London area so London commuters will benefit. It's main benefit is to relieve pressure on Stratford and Liverpool St as commuters will not have to change.
The south eastern extention of the Jubilee Line was abandoned with the descision not to build any more 12ft diameter tubes. The Crossrail extention southeast was to mitigate the loss of the Jubilee extention. Extending the DLR to Barbican/Farringdon has come to the front because of this. The Northern line extention to Battersea is unlikely ever to be built unless it was paid for entirely by developers.
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Post by revupminster on Aug 18, 2012 7:17:34 GMT
I think keeping the track seperate was to allow different operators to use the same tracks such as Hull trains. Going to Paignton I have always thought that first great western should run a couple of sprinters down to Kingswear by renting a path from the steam railway. only in the rush hour throughout the year running to Exeter.
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Post by revupminster on Aug 18, 2012 6:33:32 GMT
The Time Tunnel
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Post by revupminster on Aug 16, 2012 9:43:16 GMT
Should this thread be reprivatisation of a nationalised industry that only happened in 1947 due to the second world war devestating the railways of the big four. London Transport since the advent of control by local government has been a political football with politicians promising the pensioner voter the earth. The first bus pass (930 4pm) has developed into the Freedom pass (24hrs) that is the envy of every pensioner outside London. Just ask those in areas just outside London where there is very little chance of change of local government wether Labour or Conservative. The only thing left to offer pensioners in London at the next Mayoral election is a one way flight to Switzerland.
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Post by revupminster on Aug 13, 2012 10:20:00 GMT
I agree that if you build a new rail line or road, development follows. The DLR has been a two edged sword. On the Isle of Dogs development followed very quickly but in the Royal Docks and Silvertown after 25 years it is still underdeveloped. Extention to Dagenham Dock will only provide minimal relief to C2C. With Crossrail coming into the Royals this area will have three rail lines so maybe development will take off. The A13 improvements have only allowed longer distance commuting. The East London river crossing should have been built 30 years ago and they are still only tinkering with this area. The Blackwell bridge above the Blackwell tunnels seems to have been abandoned.
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Post by revupminster on Aug 13, 2012 10:10:33 GMT
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Post by revupminster on Aug 10, 2012 14:38:13 GMT
Should be four trains an hour.
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Post by revupminster on Aug 8, 2012 21:01:30 GMT
Better question: Which came first, Canary Wharf or the DLR? Actually Jubilee Line came first. In the late 70's a new Jubilee extension to Beckton/Woolwich/Thamesmead could have seen an Isle Of Dogs Tube station just to the north of where Asda is with new office development around it with a view to some high rise office building providing a new local hub. So the Jubilee Line came first, DLR then Canary Wharf and finally the JLE project. Even in the late 50's and early 60's they were considering what to do with the Docklands and developments were being looked into long before Canary Wharf came along. This is the Fleet line that was never built so the office development never took place . The DLR was built and the office development followed.
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Post by revupminster on Aug 8, 2012 20:00:44 GMT
Actors used play the part required. Warren Mitchell played an Indian letter writer in Danger Man, an Italian Taxi driver in The Saint and many other nationalities. In Bollywood films it is quite amusing to see British colonials played by Indian actors.
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Post by revupminster on Aug 7, 2012 22:27:34 GMT
Customer was used to try and instill in staff dealing directly with the public to give a better service. If the management had gone upmarket then the passengers would be clients.
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Post by revupminster on Aug 7, 2012 22:22:23 GMT
As Crossrail will replace the Shenfield stoppers there will be no extra trains at Stratford. The extra capacity will be beyond the portals to Liverpool St which could be used for a service to Stanstead coming over to the fast lines to reach the existing platforms that provide the present Stratford Stanstead service. You could have a similar services as are provided by different operators to Gatwick. I would like a Heathrow- Stanstead service via Stratford but it would be a nightmare to timetable through Stratford fast lines.
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Post by revupminster on Aug 6, 2012 14:52:54 GMT
DLR opened 1987, Canary Wharf developement started 1987. The DLR did regenerate the Isle of Dogs but has never had the same effect in the Royal Docks which in parts is still under developed and derelict 25 years later.
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Post by revupminster on Jul 28, 2012 7:25:20 GMT
Todays TV reported that there was no problems on public transport. It was noticable how quickly the stadium cleared at the end. From 2/3 rds of the stadium it is only a flight of steps up from the lower tier and a flight down with one landing from the upper tier.
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Post by revupminster on Jul 25, 2012 12:00:58 GMT
Surely the service will be Crossrail to Shenfield replacing the Liverpool St - Shenfields and freeing track paths beyond Stratford into London. Liverpool St -Southend will share the same tracks as they often do now leaving the fast lines for Intercity Trains. With extra capacity from Liverpool ST I wonder if the Stanstead Express could be routed via Stratford and Tottenham Hale in the near future.
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Post by revupminster on Jul 25, 2012 9:10:16 GMT
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