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October 1st 12, 11:34 AM
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According to the signs this new platform is for electric trains only, yet I
saw an HST set in it on Saturday (13:36). Admittedly the engine wasn't running on the power car under the buildings. Is this a regular occurrence? If so why not change the signs? -- Colin Rosenstiel |
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October 1st 12, 03:02 PM
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According to the signs this new platform is for electric trains only, yet I saw an HST set in it on Saturday (13:36). Admittedly the engine wasn't running on the power car under the buildings. Is this a regular occurrence? If so why not change the signs? How many other stations have unusual numbering for their platforms? Obviously one could fill an entire thread with examples at Statford. -- My blog: http://adf.ly/4hi4c |
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October 1st 12, 04:05 PM
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October 1st 12, 05:18 PM
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"Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote in message
... wrote: According to the signs this new platform is for electric trains only, yet I saw an HST set in it on Saturday (13:36). Admittedly the engine wasn't running on the power car under the buildings. Is this a regular occurrence? If so why not change the signs? How many other stations have unusual numbering for their platforms? Obviously one could fill an entire thread with examples at Statford. New Cross, Waterloo East, and St Pancras Low Level use letters rather than numbers for their platforms. Peter Smyth |
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October 1st 12, 07:28 PM
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In message , Peter Smyth
writes New Cross, Waterloo East, and St Pancras Low Level use letters rather than numbers for their platforms. Each of Waterloo East and St. Pancras I can understand as they're just about two stations on the same sight, New Cross, I've never been to. -- Clive |
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October 1st 12, 10:47 PM
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On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 20:28:44 +0100, Clive
wrote: In message , Peter Smyth writes New Cross, Waterloo East, and St Pancras Low Level use letters rather than numbers for their platforms. Each of Waterloo East and St. Pancras I can understand as they're just about two stations on the same sight, New Cross, I've never been to. It's to avoid confusion with the platforms at nearby New Cross Gate. |
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October 2nd 12, 12:13 AM
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mcp wrote:
New Cross, Waterloo East, and St Pancras Low Level use letters rather than numbers for their platforms. Each of Waterloo East and St. Pancras I can understand as they're just about two stations on the same sight, New Cross, I've never been to. It's to avoid confusion with the platforms at nearby New Cross Gate. By the way are the New Crosses a valid "outerchange" station? Thanks to Overground there's a potential increase in interchange traffic that previously would have gone via London Bridge. In fact is there a clear list anywhere of which pairs of stations definitely are and aren't valid through interchanges on a single ticket? -- My blog: http://adf.ly/4hi4c |
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October 2nd 12, 03:41 PM
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On 2012\10\01 20:28, Clive wrote:
In message , Peter Smyth writes New Cross, Waterloo East, and St Pancras Low Level use letters rather than numbers for their platforms. Each of Waterloo East and St. Pancras I can understand as they're just about two stations on the same sight, New Cross, I've never been to. You must be the only living boy who hasn't been to New Cross. Allegedly, the platform numbers are to distinguish from New Cross gate, although they aren't really near enough to warrant that. |
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October 2nd 12, 04:04 PM
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"Basil Jet" wrote You must be the only living boy who hasn't been to New Cross. Allegedly, the platform numbers are to distinguish from New Cross gate, although they aren't really near enough to warrant that. Until the Grouping both stations were named New Cross, and were only distinguished as New Cross (Brighton Line) and New Cross (South Eastern Line). Into the 1940s there were porters on the East London Line who announced trains as for New Cross Brighton Line. The locomotive depot next to New Cross Gate station was known as New Cross shed until its closure in 1947. Peter |
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October 3rd 12, 10:25 AM
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On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 08:28:44PM +0100, Clive wrote:
In message , Peter Smyth writes New Cross, Waterloo East, and St Pancras Low Level use letters rather than numbers for their platforms. Each of Waterloo East and St. Pancras I can understand as they're just about two stations on the same sight, New Cross, I've never been to. Probably to avoid confusion with New Cross Gate just a few hundred yards away. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "internet beard fetish club" Eye have a spelling chequer / It came with my pea sea It planely marques four my revue / Miss Steaks eye kin knot sea. Eye strike a quay and type a word / And weight for it to say Weather eye am wrong oar write / It shows me strait a weigh. |
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