That’s where they are physically located but they’ll still work just the same for EL interchange, although they’re going to be a bit out of the way if you arrived heading north on Thameslink…
Are platform mounted readers actually necessary? Yes, if they aren't fitted, passengers have to go out of their way, but it is no different to the arrangements at places like East Croydon, Epsom, Gatwick Airport, Reading and numerous other places where someone might want to switch from 'paper' to Oyster / Contactless. The view of the railway has generally been that it is a good thing (or perhaps neutral) for revenue protection to require passengers to go out of their way to a barrier to switch over.
Believe there is still 1 x Weekday peak diagram.
We have been used for years to the situation just along the DLR at Canning Town, where you just move between DLR and Jubilee Line platforms without issue (as indeed at many other places). Quite why it was decided to install one-way, only, gates at Custom House is inexplicable. Incidentally, to make the reverse manoeuvre you are forced by the one way only gates (although they are fully 2-way equipped) to go right out of the station and back in again. That currently needs a second member of staff at the gates on the output side to stop people trying to go through the obvious way.
It does seem like it's not been fully thought through. Could you make the station fully gated, or are there too many entrances?
Well bear in mind the station has just been through a huge, multi-year, grossly expensive total rebuild. So it's not as if it could not have been thought through. I don't think there's anything of the former station remaining - even the DLR side was closed for more than a year.
One of the 345s was stabled there. I have pics but don't know the number. It came out of the siding at 17.08pm following one that had just departed the platform (which according to the indicators was to form the 17.10pm but clearly left a couple of mins early at 17.07pm) and after switching drivers it immediately left as the 17.10pm to Paddington. By the time I had thought to check the unit's number it was already departing the station.
Yes there were so many of these weird characters too many to note and the trains were extremely busy - however there was one guy who got on our train today (he was way back down the carriage but I spotted him as we drew into the platform) he was dressed in a zany sort of Elizabeth Line uniform he had made which also gave off some sort of parody vibe about Francois Bourgeois (maybe because of Amelia D's Cooking Show.)
Yes I do know about stepping up - but whatever they were doing it wasn't working very well. One of those days perhaps when nothing goes right? A bit like the several fire alarms that have suddenly gone off at different central core stations this week (which Geoff and Reece were discussing on You Tube.)
Yes, that looks a reasonable bet. Strictly, when coming back from Farringdon to TCR you will I suppose be regarded as using the return ticket so make sure you have it with you but the chance of any ticket inspection on the network is very, very low. You might find Goodge St. a little easier to get to GOSH, then you can sample the Crosrail to Northern line interchange?
When Underground stations at the end of the line are being evacuated, trains just detrain at the penultimate stop and run in and out of the terminus empty. It causes a slight delay due to the time taken to detrain but generally little difference to the service - is this not an option on Crossrail?
Interestin, looks like it’s quicker to get out of the Moorgate exit to get to Bank junction than Liverpool Stdiamond geezer
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Diamond Geezer's blog today is about interchange times, which he's measured personally. Some seriously long connections, which do reduce the time savings from using Crossrail if you're connecting a lot.
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Diamond Geezer's blog today is about interchange times, which he's measured personally. Some seriously long connections, which do reduce the time savings from using Crossrail if you're connecting a lot.
It only took a minute to get from Elizabeth Line to Northern Line platforms at Tottenham Court Road. I suspect this is one of the better interchanges on the Elizabeth Line. The Jubilee Line to Elizabeth Line interchange at Canary Wharf was very bad though, when I came out of Canary Wharf Station there was no sign saying where the Elizabeth Line was and it took a couple of minutes to work out that I had to go under One Canada Square skyscraper.
Diamond Geezer times it at one and a quarter minutes.
This is one of the biggest interchange issues I’ve found - it’s a lot faster to exit and re-enter the barriers for the Central Line rather than stay in the station. Canary Wharf’s another issue, where it’s faster to change at West India Quay on the DLR for the Elizabeth Line (if coming from the Central London direction)
Just to advise others, the DLR trains from Central London do not stop at West India Quay. In fact WIQ was always one of the quieter stations on the DLR, which has suddenly had extra greatness thrust upon it.
Thanks - I was thinking about Goodge Street, but I would already have sampled the Northern/Cross rail interchange from Waterloo.
Bond Street presumably is the "planned" interchange between the Central and Liz lines, but sadly not available at the moment, leaving only the suboptimal TCR interchange, which is unfortunate...
