London Banter - View Single Post - why are the new Victoria and trains so slow?

[email protected] · August 14th 11, 12:09 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Recliner) wrote:

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In article ,
(Eric) wrote:

On 2011-08-13,
wrote:
In article ,
(Clive D. W. Feather) wrote:

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Same problem again. Not a lot there!

You seem to be the only one experiencing it.

Am I the only one here using Giganews?

No, but you do seem to be the only one using Ameol.

Maybe true (I can think of one other possible user here) but I'm
looking at the raw messages which shouldn't be affected by the
newsreader. Anyway, why are Robin's the only Usenet posts in several
groups giving me this problem? That's the mystery.

Here's the full details of the post you first complained about:

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NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 04:30:48 -0500
From: Robin9
Newsgroups: uk.transport.london
Subject: why are the new Victoria and trains so slow?
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 10:08:18 +0100
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;121904 Wrote:
Did anyone else here ever stand on the platform at Essex Road in
Northern City Line days? The platform lights were fed from the
traction
supply so dimmed sharply when a train started away. Of course the
platform was empty at that point as the passengers had all got on
the
departing train but we were changing directions there on the
Underground
trip in 1970.

Colin Rosenstiel
I did occasionally use Essex Road Station in those days. I didn't pay
attention to esoteric details such as lights dimming but I do remember
vividly that the entire line seemed dingy and run down and that all
the
stations had poor lighting. The line was definitely the poor relation
of
the London Underground family.

--
Robin9

Thanks. I did in fact see that text in Jim's response to it.

Eric kindly sent me one message as he received it via Giganews. The weird
bit is that the path details are identical for him and me so it's definitely
a problem at my ISP. I'm waiting for a response from them now.

--
Colin Rosenstiel