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  1. SteveOfTheStow

    London Overground line names announced

    Some of them are succinct, clear in purpose - Lioness, Liberty, Windrush. I’m struggling a bit more with Weaver, Sufragette, Mildmay. They do seem more circumstantial. ‘Lea Valley lines’ was already a sufficient name for those out of Liverpool Street. Geographic, rolls off the tongue. I don’t...
  2. SteveOfTheStow

    Hall Farm Curve

    Not to buses - there's now a bus gate between South Access Road and Argall Avenue, I believe, which the W19 passes through. For buses, this is a better situation than before, as they used to have to pass through the barrier at the Council Depot to traverse the roadblock, which was not possible...
  3. SteveOfTheStow

    Hall Farm Curve

    Much as I would love to see a Walthamstow-Stratford rail service happen in my life time, as someone who used to have to bus down that corridor on a commute for several years, the business case will never stack up and this is just busy-work so someone can say they’re doing something. What can...
  4. SteveOfTheStow

    Class 345 progress

    OpenSSL is an open source software library for securing communications over networks, and is used by many applications to facilitate encrypted networking. It's had a few vulnerabilities over the years, but a particularly serious one appeared in 2014. It was realised that because the project was...
  5. SteveOfTheStow

    Government announces independent review into HS2 programme

    Ladies and gentlemen, this is what our post-truth society looks like. "I don't have any figures" and "It's as simple as" and "We don't need experts", then asserting views without evidence to make those assertions stand up to scrutiny. Not singling you out, shakey1961, there's plenty of it going...
  6. SteveOfTheStow

    Govia Thameslink Railway. Next franchise?

    The reasoning behind GN Outers to LNER is that this would actually be desirable to LNER (not 'forgotten route', at all) because of the more stable commuter income that comes with the route, versus the largely discretionary travel on LNER intercity that can be quite variable (and has caused the...
  7. SteveOfTheStow

    Adding railcards to Oyster cards

    Yes, managed by London Overground as staff need to be able to access Oyster systems (National Rail stations have Oyster top-up machines but that's typically the only Oyster function offered)
  8. SteveOfTheStow

    Adding railcards to Oyster cards

    A member of staff in the ticket hall area of any Underground/Overground station should be able to do it; they access a special mode at the Oyster top-up machines.
  9. SteveOfTheStow

    SouthEastern franchise direct award through to 1 April 2020 (& franchise competition terminated)

    I'd argue that LO has done very little for West Anglia (apart from shiny uniforms and some new signage) and WA ridership was already high. They made some things worse, such as communicating service issues. New trains would have come regardless as the 315s were expired. 'Overgrounding' a route...
  10. SteveOfTheStow

    SouthEastern franchise direct award through to 1 April 2020 (& franchise competition terminated)

    Since Desiro City is only recent, I reckon 707s could be broken up and reformed into a higher power train (with new TOPS code) using some new cars. TMS would need to be upgraded but the 700 one has been largely battled-tested now. Up to a ROSCO to fund it, but if 707s can't find work after...
  11. SteveOfTheStow

    Passengers self-detrain from LO train 15 July 2019

    The number of staff on board is a red herring, yep. The question as to how long until an uncontrolled evacuation will occur is what the conditions are like on board the train. Long distance train that's sat down in an area surrounded by fields where most, if not all passengers are seated, can...
  12. SteveOfTheStow

    Moorgate Weekend Services

    I hope they use the opportunity to 'invest' in the platforms and subways, too. The decor and general state of things reminds me of less than stellar mens' toilets (thank God the smell isn't in keeping!)
  13. SteveOfTheStow

    GN Class 717

    I thought they might have this function from delivery, since there's a total correlation between AC/open air and DC/tunnel. But, guess not <shrugs>
  14. SteveOfTheStow

    Great Northern 313 Withdrawals

    Moorgate to Stevenage via Hertford North would be the longest run I think, but they only do that on weekends now (1tph). The longest weekday journey is Moorgate to Watton-at-Stone I think at almost 25 miles, also via Hertford North (2tph). But if it's top speed you're after, the Welwyn branch...
  15. SteveOfTheStow

    Two trackworkers killed near Port Talbot in South Wales (03/07/19)

    Thoughts to the families, the train operator and all involved. Hopefully RAIB can ensure that their deaths are not to be repeated; no one should have to suffer an avoidable accident at work and it's incumbent on all of us to work to that goal.
  16. SteveOfTheStow

    717s

    Lots of info about 717s in this thread: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/gn-class-717.146166/ (there's about 70 or so pages now so use the page numbers at the top to navigate). Now that the 717s are displacing 313s there's enough room for them at Hornsey depot and they're all being moved...
  17. SteveOfTheStow

    GN Class 717

    Given they’re a variant of the 700, one would hope all the learnings since they were introduced have fed in to making the 717 a technically good train from an engineering perspective (ignoring aesthetic displeasures across the stakeholder-base)
  18. SteveOfTheStow

    Class 710 LO

    Crossrail 2 is the only realistic plan in town to add capacity to West Anglia, but the heavens know when that'll be completed. [I started writing out more and realised that would be way off topic!] Given the constraints on the Lea Valley Lines until then, the longitudinal seating is an...
  19. SteveOfTheStow

    Class 710 LO

    Driver training is the limiting factor I remember reading.
  20. SteveOfTheStow

    GN Class 717

    Just seen 2F37 (ex-Moorgate) and it’s a 717.

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