Recent content by corfield

Yes aiui. So yes, the MCC forced their hand there but they acquired the land they needed around the station too. Although their foresight did extend to land purchases along the route to facilitate quad tracking as you can tell from the boundary fence locations even today both via Amersham and...

Oh I dont think my Myb-Vict idea is remotely realistic, but thats kinda the point - Watkin wasn’t someone who felt constrained by normal people’s view of “realistic”. Was it? Myb as built had a huge goods yard, Baker St never had anything like it or the ability to terminate long pax trains...

So I’ve said nothing of the sort then. This “implication” is entirely your own projection, presumably from a feeling of inadequacy. That’s your issue, not mine. That is you trying to twist your way out of a self created hole. It remains of prime importance that drivers be able to quickly...

Best leave projection to the cinema eh ?! I note you failed to quote where I state I have these “lightning fast reactions”… Can’t you argue with what I have said rather than invent it? Clarity of intent is key to everyone driving safely as we know first and foremost what the other people...

That’s just lazy and poor instruction. You should be taught to see these people and/or account for them in your assessment of unsighted of areas. I was. As a fail safe it doesnt even work as if you are happily ignorant of someone who has a genuine interaction with you then how are you...

Not what my police driving instructor (note I wasnt police, this was private arrangement) taught me, which was to assess every other vehicle and whether they would benefit from me signalling. If nobody would, dont. The aim being to ingrain that constant assessement of all other vehicles and the...

Fair point, but quite a bit of time surely, more like half an hour? Plus the sense of it being direct vs going in and out unnessecarily? Cost wise at the moment it’d be the fare all the way to Padd and then Padd to LHR (quite pricey?). This’d be notably cheaper also. Of course if Chiltern...

The frustrating thing about the M25/A3 section closures is that all this disruption and expense is for a not very good solution to what has long been a massive congestion spot. Like the years we had of mess at Black Cat only to now face years more as they eventually build the multi-stack...

Th That’s what I’ve read (not the book, I think it also was the Reconnections article or something like it), it just seems very unlike his normal approach to things. Given all of that route was busy it feels he’d be better off just surface moving pax from Myb to CX or going completely around...

But what are those minutes for? Just “lost” or with a benefit. Why? What will that “headline” achieve? You complain elsewhere that on a 3 hr journey 5-15 mins is really felt. I call BS on that, it’s less than 8% and there is no way you could identify that. I routinely travel my A to B by two...

So why not write that rather than invent an acronym? Although what that has to do with the continual need to assess each vehicle around you and judge if they or you are closing/opening (relative to you and everyone else) and what your evolving options are as you plan your driving isn’t clear...

True, but freight was far greater into the city goods yards? I can claim no real knowledge but from what I have read, these lines were pretty busy all the time? It all just seems a bit ad hoc for a man whose vision/solution was pretty much always “build a new, specific and probably OTT thing”...

The RTA being a common term of course and I’m sure you’ve read whatever it is cover to cover. Just hopefully not whilst you were driving… Lovely bit of concocted outrage but you probably need to read my posts again and this time with the antifreeze out of reach. Having spent a lot of time...

Mercs have always been terrible drivers who passivlry hog the road, it seems to be something about the type of people who buy them that the road really was built for them alone. (BMW/Audi drivers by contraat actively hog the road…) The Japanese brands are bought by very cost conscious types who...

So, Watkins had the GC London Extension built. His objective as often stated was to the continent. It generally seems to be assumed that this would be via the Met, Widened Lines and Snow Hill or ELL connections. But those routes were full surely and hardly quick? No scope for long pax...