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    Favourite Tube Stock (Past and/or Present)?

    Another vote for the 1959 Stock. That's the first stock I remember travelling on. Certainly, they suffered from being associated with the dirty, dingy LU decades of the 70s and 80s, but I did enjoy them. For the SSL, A stock is the clear winner, despite the rough riding they could give towards...
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    Southeastern problems post timetable change

    And, of course, the vast majority of all passengers are heading to and from the Charing Cross platforms, which concentrates the problem. London Bridge is easy and pleasant to use if you're changing trains and have less then ten minutes to wait. If you have to wait more than 10 minutes, it's...
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    Southeastern problems post timetable change

    One of the more depressing features of the new timetable for me is the unnecessary underutilisation of Cannon Street. I am waiting for a train there to take me to London Bridge now: only thrrr rains are currently in the platform,, and only two of them are in service. There are eight or so trains...
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    Ickenham overrun/SPAD, 12th March 2022

    I am surprised that this didn't end up as a RAIB investigation: Evening Standard article today: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/london-underground-tube-driver-sleep-fatique-shifts-metropolitan-line-b1058824.html TfL response to FOI request, November 2022...
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    Late platform changes.

    Indeed; I was travelling at around the same time. Very occasionally, Down trains from Cannon Street may be suddenly switched from P1 to P2.
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    Southeastern Snow Disruption - 11/12

    Yes: both AccuWeather and the BBC forecast supplied by MeteoGroup gave a more accurate picture of the time range and extent of the snowfall, and I think it was the same the last time we had snow. I knew I had no chance of getting to work easily when I looked out my bedroom window last night...
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    Connecting Northern City Line to Greenwich Line

    Not least, I suppose, the remnants of GPO's empire, including vital telecomms infrastructure and the Post Office railway.
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    Connecting Northern City Line to Greenwich Line

    A route to the west would have slightly less chance of hitting infrastructure - something closer to St Paul's. Then, you could extend by either heading to Waterloo and replacing the drain, or by following the Fleet Line route as far as Charing Cross. In either case, once you got to the end of...
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    How much "new" capacity has the Elizabeth line actually gained?

    There is a contrast to be drawn with the Central Line extension, which actually cut capacity on the old LNER stations beyond Leytonstone - a situation which would have been much worse had the suburban expansion of the 1930s bot been halted by WWIi and the Green Belt.
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    Trivia: Train Services that run wholly within the same Council area

    And the Mill Hill shuttle runs entirely within Barnet.
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    Equivalent of Beeching in other countries

    Harold Macmillan was painfully aware of the relative decline in British economic performance, which is why his premiership saw a sudden impetus to modernisation and change in many areas of government: Beeching, NEDC, the Plowden report on the planning of public spending, the Robbins report on...
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    Alcohol Consumption & Working on the railways

    There was a disturbing feature that Colonel Robertson does not highlight in the report. Driver Wilsdon's second arrest for being drunk & disorderly, in 1969, took place in Ennersdale Road, which is only a couple of streets away from the Hither Green depot where he was based. The most natural...
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    Possible disruption 19th September?

    If the Queen's service had taken place in St George's Chapel, as with most recent monarch's, this would have been much, much worse, potentially.
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    Weird train-related dreams

    I suddenly realised, a couple of mornings ago, that I keep dreaming of a Charing Cross Low Level station (in London, rather than Glasgow, where this wouldn't be odd at all). I have never actually been there in a dream I remember, but my dream-self can conjure up a mental picture of it when I am...
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    The end is nigh for the Southern service to Milton Keynes, but what does this mean for the future of the south WCML and West London Line?

    There was a clear problem with the viability of such services at the time. You needed to have a certain level of intra-London travel to maintain viability; and the Underground, trams, and motor-driven taxis and buses had robbed the railways of their Victorian advantages. But those threats aren't...
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    The end is nigh for the Southern service to Milton Keynes, but what does this mean for the future of the south WCML and West London Line?

    It was, once. Until 1914, most LNWR expresses stopped there, and many of the other railway companies serving London (including those South of the Thames) had local services of some sort to the station. For instance, you could change from LCDR boat trains to a Willesden service at Herne Hill...
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    Olympia shuttle - better with LO?

    I do wonder whether LO could take over services between Kensington Olympia & High Street Kensington - possibly incorporating them into other services terminating further along the LO network - at Highbury & Islington, or united with the GOBLIN services. Ideally, if and when CR2 arises, CR2 could...
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    Calls for trains from Reading to London Waterloo via Earley, Wokingham and Bracknell to be made faster

    I have sometimes wondered whether you could remedy this by getting some services to run on the Ludgate Lines, via Pouparts & Stewarts Lane, into the Chatham side at Victoria.
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    Return to the Seaside Specials?

    Given the good possibility that periods such as this one will become more common in the near future during UK summers, is there any possibility that these could be more widespread in future? I can see some of the possible cons: * Lack of rolling stock, or drivers signed for a route with...
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    SouthEastern announce planned strike (21, 23 and 25 June) day service

    The buses I took to get to the station were well loaded, and there were queues at stops for Central London routes, but they weren't unmanageably busy, although traffic was heavy. East London, apparently, was another story...

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