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Post by revupminster on Dec 4, 2020 6:35:47 GMT
A= Footpath under tracks between Howard Road and Deyncourt Gardens, Upminster?
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Post by revupminster on Nov 29, 2020 13:45:53 GMT
Pension at retirement age 40/60 = full LU pension £100 + £50 state pension = £150. You can never beat doing the full 40 years in the pension fund unless your retired early as sick.
Retire early on fixed pension £50 + £50 State pension at retirement age =£100. Means you would have to live on £50 if you retired at 50 for the next 15/18 years to pension age. Retiring early really knocks your amount down by as much as half as you are expected to be paid pension longer
Retire early on a enhanced pension £75 then at retirement age £50 state pension + £25 reduced LU pension = £75. This gives a level pension from retirement from LU and into state retirement. The LU pension does rise every year.
I have tried to illustrate the idea as simply as I can. The figure bear no relationship with real life. Some people may also have an AVC if they cannot reach the 40 years in the pension fund.
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Post by revupminster on Nov 29, 2020 7:16:07 GMT
Depends on what type of pension you took in 2005. If you took the LU pension that gives you an increased pension before you are retirement age and goes down when you receive the state pension but you still get the same monthly payment made up of the LU pension and state pension.
That's what I did because it was the best value because retiring early reduces your pension by a lot until you get the state pension which gives a big rise in income but you don't know how long you will live to collect it.
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Post by revupminster on Nov 21, 2020 13:39:44 GMT
The first underground line Paddington-Farringdon (1863) and it's extension (1864) to Hammersmith were dual gauge (standard and wide) and operated GWR locos and stock for the first few years.
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Post by revupminster on Nov 21, 2020 7:30:12 GMT
Could be west of Upminster but the building at the top does not look right.
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Post by revupminster on Nov 21, 2020 7:21:10 GMT
The cocks on a train. In less PC times staff, who were not drivers or guards learning the mysteries of the the triple valve, were told the train was not operating normally because "when the cock is up it is in, when it is down it is out".
If the the trip cock had been cut out you should expect to see two people in the cab; driver and observer who could be the guard or a station staff member (including a booking clerk who did not have any uniform in those days).
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Post by revupminster on Nov 18, 2020 17:23:40 GMT
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Post by revupminster on Nov 16, 2020 17:20:27 GMT
A= east of Heathway. St Marks Place?
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Post by revupminster on Nov 15, 2020 7:33:17 GMT
Inset 2= Roman amphitheatre Careleon?
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Post by revupminster on Nov 14, 2020 12:21:34 GMT
B= Tower Hill ?
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Post by revupminster on Nov 14, 2020 7:34:55 GMT
Well Crossrail 2 had a cost of £23bn to enable 200,000 homes. Fortunately no talk yet of Bakerloo line extension, with a cost of £5bn to Lewisham enabling 35,000 homes. Not ruled out yet! Who is going to live in theses houses and will the jobs be there? When the government talks of levelling up, this will suck people and jobs from other parts of the country and Europe. Covid has increased flight from the cities. Second homes become become first homes and their jobs follow them. We will get an influx from Hong Kong and they will bring a lot of money with them but they have been buying properties in the north as better value. House prices in London have been pushed up by successive waves of rich investors from abroad buying central London properties causing a ripple effect outwards. In the crash of 2008 property prices crashed and it took London 5 years to recover but this recovery did not happen in the rest of the country until about 2018 and covid is having a knock on effect of increasing house prices in coastal areas. My parents-in-law property at the coast doubled in value between 2001 and 2006 and was still the same price in 2016 as I keep an eye on the properties I know through Right move. The wife's childhood road in Walthamstow, property is between £750,000-£1m.
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Post by revupminster on Nov 4, 2020 15:11:25 GMT
Should we be surprised. The Victoria Line planning was in the second world war but the country had been bankrupted by the war. We are bankrupt now with covid and is future demand be there. More important; have we got the expertise to build a railway, on time on budget!! Delay does give time to fine tune as on the Victoria and Jubilee Lines.
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Post by revupminster on Nov 2, 2020 11:51:23 GMT
If the bus pass was removed when would there be a significant drop in bus usage; early morning?, late evening?, during the day possibly as pensioners who forgo their local shops (which have probably closed) to go to the major retail centres.
If the bus pass was a panacea for local buses then rural counties would have plenty of buses. Have said before the bus pass was a tool of political bribery from it's inception to the all singing dancing freedom pass. The 60+ was Boris's last bribe as mayor.
The children's concession allows middle class parents to send their children to better schools further away such as Cooper's at Upminster or Sacred Heart who are pleased to receive donations from parents. A lot of children emerge from Upminster and Upminster Bridge in the morning so much so that Waitrose had to stop the free coffee in the morning.
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Post by revupminster on Nov 1, 2020 16:58:59 GMT
On an income tax point of view when I had a staff pass the tax man gave it a notional value (say £100) and reduced your tax code (say 10) so I wonder if 60+ holders have a tax code deduction. When I had a Freedom Pass and now just a bus pass (don't live in London) there was no reduction in tax code.
On another tax note when you use gift aid regularly for a donation my tax code was reduced one year but it has just been upped again.
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Post by revupminster on Nov 1, 2020 16:40:13 GMT
The point was that I thought it was Boris's 60+ pass was under threat and not the Freedom Pass.
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Post by revupminster on Nov 1, 2020 14:12:52 GMT
Khan was on BBC news channel saying the government wanted to take away free travel for the over 60's. He did not add or clarify that statement. A politicians answer to create mischief.
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Post by revupminster on Oct 30, 2020 17:56:34 GMT
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Post by revupminster on Oct 29, 2020 12:55:41 GMT
^ How can an exact date be given when the night time economy is shut down? Is there a date for theatres reopening. In my area they are planning a pantomime but cases are beginning to rise for the first time despite no change with all the staycationers coming to the coast. Talk of tier 3 by Christmas. Places of Worship can still stay open but given the profile of worshippers I can see them closing.
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Post by revupminster on Oct 29, 2020 7:06:47 GMT
Waterloo & city is the logical choice to trial driverless trains just as the Hainault- Woodford shuttle trialled the original Automatic Train Operation from the 5 April 1964.
I know the first automatically operated train was a set of District cars which began trials on the one mile stretch of track between South Ealing and Acton Town end of 1962. The first passenger train was also a District train no 123 on the eastbound track between Stamford Brook and Ravenscourt Park on the 8 April 1963.
There was no new stock. The trains for the Victoria Line were ordered on 10 March 1964.
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Post by revupminster on Oct 22, 2020 6:16:27 GMT
^ "With great power comes great responsibility" - Uncle Ben, from a huge tome of work written (by Stan Lee) in the 20th century to rival the Bible and Shakespeare.
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Post by revupminster on Oct 22, 2020 6:10:50 GMT
inset 3= Weymouth Town Bridge and Quay Tramway passing under Town Bridge. Which I think is being dismantled at this moment.
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Post by revupminster on Oct 21, 2020 8:41:14 GMT
When Parsons Green had a crew depot 100 drivers, 120 guards they used to operate Circle Line (when it was a circle) trains on a Sunday to maintain route knowledge. Upminster years ago had no night crews. The earliest book on was 0500 and latest finish at 2400 because a lot of the crews came in on the first train from Southend. Barking and Acton Town had the night crews.
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Post by revupminster on Oct 21, 2020 8:30:42 GMT
Back on covid, Transport for London have engaged a private healthcare provider for six months of fast return coronavirus tests for it's train drivers. They have tested just under 700 in two months.
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Post by revupminster on Oct 18, 2020 18:27:17 GMT
I've found the 1990 Capital Transport publication Underground Official Handbook by Piers Connor. On page 78 " the original hope was that there would be extensions to Fenchurch Street, Surrey Docks and Lewisham. These did not find favour with the government of the time but an extension to Docklands and Stratford was given the go ahead by the Department of transport in November 1989, to be partly financed by private capital". On page 79 is a half page spread of the current Jubilee Line alignment. It also showed the Bank extension of the DLR under construction. Oh sweet, that sounds interesting. Where dya find it if you dont mind me asking? In my bookcase. I probably bought it in 1990. Annoyingly, not for this thread, is I had maps for the original Olympia & York estate, royal docks and early crossrail map that had the line going to Amersham I think but can't find them. I have nearly all the books London Transport published and sold in the ticket offices in the late 60s early 70s. The booking clerks got commission. Sad story Ian Allen bookshop at Waterloo closes 31 October. Got some good stuff in there.
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Post by revupminster on Oct 18, 2020 16:28:28 GMT
I've found the 1990 Capital Transport publication Underground Official Handbook by Piers Connor.
On page 78 " the original hope was that there would be extensions to Fenchurch Street, Surrey Docks and Lewisham. These did not find favour with the government of the time but an extension to Docklands and Stratford was given the go ahead by the Department of transport in November 1989, to be partly financed by private capital".
On page 79 is a half page spread of the current Jubilee Line alignment. It also showed the Bank extension of the DLR under construction.
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Post by revupminster on Oct 18, 2020 5:25:57 GMT
the creation of the Docklands Development agency in 1981 and the cheaper option of a light railway took over much of the eastern arm of the Fleet/Jubilee line starting as it did at Tower Gateway.
So I would think the Jubilee alignment came out of relieving interchange points, serving dockland areas south of the Thames and back across the Thames to the growing Canary Wharf. Again the eastern extension to Abbey Wood was abandoned in favour of Crossrail that originally in the east was only going to Shenfield with a possible branch via Forest Gate Junction to the C2C (now the Riverside extension of London Overground).
The unlikely turn north to Stratford was because of a need for a depot and there was available railway land at Stratford market. If the original Fleet line alignment had been built the depot would probably been where the Crossrail sidings are at Abbey Wood.
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Post by revupminster on Oct 15, 2020 20:48:23 GMT
Will more than 30tph be required on any line post covid?
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Post by revupminster on Oct 14, 2020 22:07:32 GMT
Northern line not being my expertise and having read all the comments AlpineJohn seems to have the best reasons a split, which has been mooted for as long as I can remember, is unlikely and unworkable
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Post by revupminster on Oct 7, 2020 18:55:39 GMT
A decision was made some years ago that the Jubilee line would be the last underground to be built at tube stock gauge. One of the reasons the junction at North Greenwich was abandoned even though the step-plate junction was built. Crossrail to Abbey Wood replaced the intended Jubilee/Fleet line branch. The decision to go to Stratford was more because of available land to build a depot.
The Hackney- Wimbledon line was to have taken over the District and Central Line open sections where main line gauge trains could run but has grown out of all proportion to what was originally envisaged. Cannot seeing it being built.
The Northern extension to Battersea came out of nowhere probably because of private money from the developers and some from the Americans and the new US embassy.
I suppose any train in theory could pass through the Crossrail tunnels in some form of slow manual as they would not be able to use the ATO. I don't what happens on Thameslink if a non ATO has to use the central section.
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Post by revupminster on Oct 3, 2020 5:51:05 GMT
safely decommissioning the project-- is this a nuclear power station they building down there. This is one long fiasco. Crossrail 2 is doomed with the level of incompetence that still dogs this project.
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