On Sat, 19 May 2007 21:43:59 -0500, "Stephen Sprunk" wrote: "Boltar" wrote in message ... On 16 May, 21:07, "Paul Scott" wrote: At a guess, I would think Harrow-on-the-Hill would have "facilities" (toilet has a realy unfortunate "ring" in...

Hi How come First have decided to reinstate the old Logos on their routes in Central London? I see that East London, Selkent, and Red Arrow have all reappeared?? --

Is this route changing over to double deckers on a full time basis? It seems that Arriva have been running a few double deckers on this route for the last couple of months. I hope they are as this route seems to be getting more and more crowded. --

Call for Action, If you are a regular user of the M3 between junction 1 and 3 you will be aware of crazy scheme under trial by the Highways agency. Details can be found on the highways Agency website at http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/projects/14533.aspx Please sign my petition against this scheme on the 10 Downing Street website at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/m25m3project/ Regards

Does anybody know what was happening at Berrylands Station about lunchtime today, ambulances & most of Kingston police? PG

I boarded a London Bus with an Oyster Card that had insufficient credit for the journey. I had used it twice previously during the day and was unaware that the credit was running low. However the Revenue Inspector simply asked to see the card, told me that there was insufficient credit and asked for my details. She did not confiscate the card, issue an intention to prosecute notice, or even a...

1st June, 2007 * Xi'an is in the province of Shanxi, China May 30, Xi'an city government held a news conference and announced an auction in mid-June will be hold publicly on selling three-years management right of 34 parking lots in mid-June. In accordance with the request of Xi'an government, the management right of parking lots which is invested by the city government will be auctioned publicly...

Can anyone tell be the year in which Harringay (formerly Harringay West) station opened? Google and Wikipedia and all my London books seem unable to give me a date (though I seem to have become an expert on unwanted data about Harringay East/Stadium/East/Green Lanes in the process! Thanks in advance -- Ian Jelf, MITG

Hi, I recently heard that from the moment of touching in, I have 2 hours to touch out, otherwise I will pay the penalty for not touching out. Is that true? If it is, then it adds a nice feature to travelling to DLR and other stations without the barriers. I can just go to Canary Wharf shopping centre, buy some stuff, and go back, paying just 1 quid (i live in Z2). Is there anything that can go...

I guess I'm too naive to expect better but riddle me this:- I live near Bookham. Which gives me the choice of Bookham (SWT) or Leatherhead (Southern). It depends what time of day and where I am which I use. How come then that the ticket machines are so different.. Bookham to Richmond - Not Via London, £11.10 Leatherhead to Richmond - Not Via London £11.10

I'm not sure how hard or not it would be to do. I'm presuming it uses some form of encryption though given any reader can show you how much you have left and where you've been then theres either some basic system wide common key encryption going on or none at all which makes me wonder how easy it would be to extract the details if you had a suitable reader yourself or even up the amount of cash...

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Gents, I live relatively close to the new planned Hoxton & Haggerstown stations on the ELL (or is it ELR, now?). I was wondering if there would be any new bus routes planned to augment the trains? I've searched everywhere I could think of, but no luck. It seems to be easy to find changes to rail lines as it's all very high profile - but

I took this photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/25124954@N00/480556440/ #comment72157600218892777 Can you guess... (a) where it is (b) what it's for?

I had a bit of a twilight zone moment at Brondesbury Park station on the DrossLink North London line Monday night.. It was about 5:30 and about 5 or 6 of us were waiting for the train to Stratford, when a large grey Fox came up the tracks. I heard the woman at the end of the platform gasp as the fox headed up the ramp and along the platform. It just walked along giving us the once over,...

At Sloane Square yesterday (presumably due to the increased traffic for the Chelsea Flower Show) announcements and staff were telling Oystercard users not to bother touching out and that their fare would be correctly debited. How could that work, without giving an unresolved journey and presumably messing up any daily caps? As it happens, I wasn't using mine yesterday (left jacket and...

In message , at 21:43:59 on Sat, 19 May 2007, Stephen Sprunk remarked: "Toilet" here refers to the device itself, Same in UK. not the room it's located in, Dual use in the UK. Although often used in the plural as in "where are the toilets" - eg "where is the room with the toilets in".

I was greeted by a load of London Transport staff at Heathrow 123 station this morning, telling me there was no Piccadilly Line service. I asked why? and was told that the train drivers were walking the new tunnels to T5! Surely this would not affect the H123 to Cockfosters service?

On 23 May, 11:35, Tom Anderson wrote: So it's sort of functionally one station, but split into two because of the practicalities. Interesting. I suspect that London has the odd example of the exact opposite? (Functionally two stations, but both identically named despite affording less than ideal interchange facilities.) --

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23396272-details/Marble+Arch+may+have+to+give+way+for+a+bus+station/article.do quote Marble Arch may have to give way for a bus station 14.05.07 Marble Arch would have to be moved and a bus station built in its place if trams were to be introduced along Oxford Street, London's transport commissioner has admitted. Peter Hendy said a facility twice the...