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Tube strike by
Mizter T
On Jun 6, 12:32*pm, Mizter T wrote:
On Jun 5, 8:13*pm, "John Whitaker" wrote:
Does anybody know whether the Tube strike called for 9-11th June is going
ahead?
I am trying to make alternative arrangements for a trip down to London on
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Ticket gates at Thornton Heath by
David Cantrell
Good news! There are now automated ticket barriers at Thornton Heath,
so the local pikey scum will have to buy tickets!
The bad news is that:
* ticket barriers slow people down, and this is a very busy station,
with a narrow gate-line;
* they're not very good at reading Oyster cards, most cards I observed
taking at least two attempts to read them
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DLR delta junction flyunder by
Ganesh Sittampalam
Hi,
The new flyover/under at Delta junction on the DLR seems to have been
finished for a couple of weeks now, but I haven't seen any trains
actually use it. Anyone know why, and when it will be brought into
action? (I know it's only supposed to be for peak-times, but that's
when I travel.)
Ganesh
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June 4th 09 05:59 PM
by 1506
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Lying Sky News Caught out Trying to Talk up Fake UKIP Party by
stjaotw@googlemail.com
http://bnp.org.uk/2009/06/lying-sky-news-caught-out-trying-to-talk-up-fake-ukip-party/
Sky News has humiliated itself by publishing a totally bogus report on
internet reach, deliberately distorting figures to try and talk up the
fake UKIP party ahead of tomorrow’s European elections.
In an article titled ‘UKIP Receive Google Boost Ahead Of Elections’,
Sky News falsely claims that more people...
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SouthEastern HS1 Trial Service Finally Announced by
Mizter T
embers25 wrote:
SouthEastern have finally revealed the times and supplements for their
trial HS1 service starting on June 29th.
http://www.southeasternrailway.co.uk/index.php/news/news_items/view/94
Thanks for the heads up. For the record, I'll just copy a bit of that
press release below:
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Customer Charter Refund by
nimbusjunk@yahoo.co.uk
It looks like the days of getting a four pound voucher are over.
They now only pay the PAYG fare ( unless you had bought a cash fare)
This is a little mean!
I always thought a bit extra was fair.
Still gone are the days of being with my three kids on a family travel
card which cost about £3.50 and I got £16 back for a delayed journey
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ELL works trip by
John B
I'm going on a trip with work to cover the ELL worksite next week,
alongside various railway and civils hacks, visiting Shoreditch High
Street, Dalston Junction, Thames Tunnel and NXG depot.
Anyone got any qns/issues/areas that they've been wondering about,
that I'd be an idiot to miss out on, etc?
--
John Band
john at johnband dot org
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Siamese twin traffic lights in Walthamstow by
John Rowland
Traffic from Edmonton reaching the Crooked Billet Roundabout is greeted by
two adjacent sets of lights on a single pole.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=&daddr=&geocode=&hl=en&mra=mr&dirflg=w&ie=UTF8&ll=51.601153,-0.017102&spn=0,359.990344&z=17&layer=c&cbll=51.601227,-0.017033&panoid=ECaA0hF9nesOGW1WHp9WGQ&cbp=12,118.67,,2,2.91
Both sets work in sync, both face the same way...
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Canning Town DLR flyover now open by
Mr Thant
I took a detour on the way home today to check out the new
flyover. Trains to/from Beckton are using the bridge, meaning the
junction for the City Airport branch is finally grade separated.
One oddity is that trains from City Airport cross under the bridge
before using a mini diveunder to cross back.
Another oddity is the points for the third platform at Royal Victoria.
For the sake of about...
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Harrow & Wealdstone this morning! by
johnnyburke02@googlemail.com
From eHarrow Observer 010609
Harrow and Wealdstone chaos after man runs in front of train
Jun 1 2009 By David Baker
The Watford to Brighton service
WEALDSTONE was bought to a standstill this morning after a man ran on
to the tracks at Harrow and Wealdstone rail station.
The 55-year-old from Pinner was detained by police officers after
narrowly avoiding being struck by a train - having called...
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Ba-da- Bing! by
John Rowland
Windows Live Local is now redirecting to the Bing site as part of
Microsoft's attempt to oust Google. I still use WLL for birds-eye views in
those areas not covered by Google Streetview, but the site has been largely
superceded by Google Maps and will remain so until they add Streetview
functionality. I don't know where the Bing name came from.... "Meetoogle"
would have been more honest.
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Hidden (King's Cross) and Fennell (Clapham Jn) reports by
reports@campbellsmiths.f9.co.uk
I am clearing out and disposing of one copy each of the above DfT
accident investigation reports. They are substantial documents with
colour photographs, track diagrams etc. If anyone would like them for
the cost of postage, please email me at
. They weigh 2.2kg, so the postage
will be around GBP 7.
Peter CS
PS. If you email me and it bounces it will be...
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Oyster revenue allocation question by
Scott
A mate and I got into a discussion about how the revenue from the
Oyster card is allocated between participating operators. If I make a
journey on a bus at a cost of £1, I assume the £1 goes to the bus
operator (possibly with deduction of a service charge). If I then
travel on the tube at a cost of £2.20, logically this money would go
to London Underground. This brings the total spend to...
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Boris & co's narrow miss whilst out cycling by
Mizter T
Mayor Boris and members of his transport team - including Transport
Commissioner Peter Hendy and the Mayor's Director of Transport Policy
Kulveer Ranger - were out and about on their bikes on Friday morning
just gone cycling around in east London, doing a bit of scouting
around in connection with the upcoming "Cycle Super Highways" project,
when this happened on Narrow Street in Limehouse......
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Bus Route W19 by
Phil Richards
We are in the process of buying a house in Walthamstow on the W19 route.
Having done plenty of Google Street Viewing etc. to "explore" the area I
am curious as to how the W19 bus makes its way to the end of the route
in the industrial areas around Argall Avenue. Have a look at:
http://tinyurl.com/kp67z8
And you'll see the bus stops yet no apparent connection between from
South Access Road....
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Commuters suffer while Crowe inflates his ego even further by
boltar2003@yahoo.co.uk
Not content with creating yet another pointless strike on the victoria
line about bugger all, this dyed in the wool ****** now seems to have
political ambitions over and above herding a bunch of thick militants on to
picket lines. Perhaps he sees the chaos he causes on LUL as a stepping stone
to the chaos he could cause in a parliament somewhe
http://no2eu.com/bobsblog.html
B2003
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Bank Doublethink During Strike by
MIG
I forgot to mention that during the Victoria Line strike last week,
announcements were being made on the Northern Line telling people
travelling to Victoria to change at Bank for the District Line from
Monument.
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by MIG
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Boris' battery drive - London to go green for electric cars... by
Mizter T
....apparently:
"London Mayor Boris Johnson has announced plans that he hopes will
make the city the electric vehicle (EV) capital of Europe" - report
from technology news site The Register:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/05/22/london_ev_capital_plans/
Two interesting excerpts from this story...
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Prepay on national rail/staff pass by
tom2004@gmail.com
Hello!
Just recently noticed the prepay oyster readers (as in the stand-alone
on platform ones for when the ticket office area is closed and
passengers enter through an open gate) have appeared, albeit covered
up at the moment, at Crayford station in Z6 which is a Nat Rail
station.
Obviously this means that they are extending the payg system to
National Rail in London, but the million dollar...
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