Recent content by BartTheAnorak

Well admittedly my friend hasn't been compaining about it as much recently but he used to upload loads of pictures from the two stations where everything seemed to be either delayed or cancelled. On a lighter note I went to college in St Albans and did my first jobs there (I grew up in Hatfield).

I can't find much up to date information online to that end.

Also I wasn't so much talking about how much the tracks could take as the fact of it onlly being double-tracked which adds to the knock-on effect in delays.

I guess I was remembering the hassle when they first ran trains through from Finsbury Park. Also a friend of mine has been a regular commuter between Luton and Cricklewood for the last 20 years or so and it's just been a non-stop nightmare of delays and cancellations both before and after the...

I wonder how many people actually take advantage of how many stops the Thameslink trains take in over a relatively long distance. Bedford to Brighton sure but how many, for example, travel from Flitwick to Preston Park with any regularity. Depending on space at St Pancras (STP)'s surface...

I didn't realise Stanmore-Baker Street constituted more than half. Also I don't count Fleet among the 'hands' as it was a working name for the Jubilee rather than a line anything actually ran under the name of. I just mean a large portion is original in terms of being run under the Jubilee line...

Ah I see. Sorry, haven't bought Rail regularly in recent years (financial reasons).

OK I just seem to remember talk of the Hertford East branch being served by CR2 as well.

Well personally I thought the CR1 contract should have gone to National Rail on account of the distance out it goes in Reading's case. I stand corrected re Epsom from other posts though. Going back to the New Southgate thing, also re Broxbourne, it's harder to tell whether these are meant to be...

Doubt it. The Victoria, Jubilee and Elizabeth names were/are principally coined to apply to new stretches of track. They wouldn't give a royal's name to something principally second hand.

I don't see the logic. It would leave pretty much no non-CR2 branches from the SWML (at least not terminating within the capital). Could help Victoria but only by having loads of people change at Clapham Junction. Very few northbound trains on the Southern route don't call there as I recall.

The plans, official or otherwise, for Crossrail 2, or Chelney to give its old nickname, have changed over and over for half a century. I can't help wondering though: Why did they drop Piccadilly Circus from the plans? It served the whole 'interchange with everything' rule perfectly. Did they...

I'd go for the Bank Line and the Charing Line myself to reflect the two present names used for the middle sections.

Thus virtually emptying Victoria and Waterloo at surface level?

Ah right - unlike the dual voltage ones then. I stand corrected.