Recent content by 321over360

But is the data totally accurate, i mean passengers from the GEML stations such as Shenfield maybe taking faster GA services to Stratford to avoid the slow slog of the EL stopping everywhere then connecting at Stratford for the EL?

Same could be said why is Shoreditch High Street in Zone 1 when the old Shoreditch Tube station was Zone 2, likely to make people who travel NB from Whitechapel pay a higher fare for LO services as it passes through a Zone 1 station, as if you are coming from say the Eastern Central Line to say...

Somewhere I have a sound recording of an announcement from a C Stock H&C at West Ham station, if i can remember where it is saved I can try and get it to you, but it was just there

Train destinations on the 1992 stock can be funny, last night i got a train going East at Stratford (it was a Hainault v Newbury Park service) and on the front it showed White City, when I got in, it said "This is a Central Line train to Hainault v Newbury Park". Even more bizarre a week or so...

96 Stock wouldnt be compatible with the Central or Waterloo & City Lines, the Drain being unable to accomodate the longer length of the carriages, as i believe when the 92 stock was introduced works had to be done by NSE to make them fit on the line, and on the Central Line you wouldnt be able...

I have noticed lately especially when going home, several 1992 stock which seem to have a slight delay in opening of the doors in the platform, sometimes i dont think the Driver is immediately aware either as one time i was at Stratford and it was likely due to people including myself looking...

A couple of weeks ago I did happen to see the CLIP train come into Newbury Park as I was waiting for a train and saw the second train as Special so waited for it just incase it was it, which it was, I will say one thing, I do not like the new announcement system on it, as its Text to Speech, as...

This is so wrong, especially if all the entire station signage has been altered, yes maybe TFL want to gain some revenue as they always claim to be "broke" but to potentially confuse all passengers with all the signs altered is completely wrong and station wide gimmicks like this shouldn't...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/island-line-cancellations.250313/ What i'm surprised about is why the Island Line hasn't become a DOO to some extent line with the Driver opening/closing the doors using monitors and the Guard being used for Revenue/Customer...

Oddly i have found the large windows arent the main cause of the heat on the Central Line having now returned to commuting on them again between Newbury Park & Stratford for the last 9 odd months, I always find the train far hotter when boarding at Stratford going Home after the trains have been...

Using the Stan Ex 745s on the Ipswich stopper makes more sense and cascade the 720s used on the Ipswich services to the Stan Ex route thus putting the WAML mostly in 720 services, as then if a 745/1 has issues on the GEML it will be easier to get it to Crown Point than from the WAML

The "petrol crisis" 2 years ago was purely an engineered crisis like most are in order to sell off all the standard E5 Petrol by instigating a claim in the media that there was a "shortage" and get people panic buying which happened and paved the way for E10 to be implemented in all Petrol...

Definitely, ATG's under H&S legislation are required to be kept open if there is no staff around. Would TFL even do anything? Unmanned closed ATGs is common on the tube as been through Newbury Park station plenty of times where the barriers are closed but no one in the little booth designed to...

Graffiti is definitely up on the tube network, I've seen a lot more Central Line carriages with graffiti on the exterior at times going along most of the carriage length, coupled with the common existence of graffiti inside the carriage normally on the doors or the drivers cab wall

To be honest they have pretty good braking at present, especially the speed some come into Platforms at on below surface stations like Gants Hill where they come in at full linespeed i believe