In message , at 14:46:18 on
Wed, 9 Aug 2017, Recliner remarked:

I'm assuming it'll be transferred to TL. It's roughly the same
distance as Peterborough, and it'll take pressure off the four MML St
Pancras platforms, particularly if they're being used by longer IEPs
than the current 222s.

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/rail-...82823601204305

As the electrification project also includes doubling Kettering-Corby
they'd better get a move on to meet the 2019 delivery date.

"These services could become daily" [wow] "and be extended to
Kettering/Corby". - some "could" weasel wording applying also to the
extension.

But anyway, it looks like a later to the editor, rather than anything
more definitive than that.

Yes, I think it's a letter to the editor, but quite a well-informed
one.

What's the "daily" thing, then?

--
Roland Perry

In message
-septe
mber.org, at 15:25:45 on Wed, 9 Aug 2017, Recliner
remarked:

Serious question: does Grayling have a reputation for regularly changing
his mind?

He'll be long gone as Transport Minister before the next round of frog
boiling.

In other words, you admit he doesn't have that reputation? If so, why
say it?

He may not be around for very long, but will be there long enough to
get the MML IEPs ordered. In any case, it will be the DfT's civil
servants' idea, not his, and so will continue even after he's moved
on.

That depends on him. His interest in the railway extends to opening
Cambridge North station yesterday and then departing by car.

Well, he's responsible for roads as well as trains

Did the LibDems at Cambridge North today give him their list of
potholes?
--
Roland Perry

In message , at 15:00:54 on
Wed, 9 Aug 2017, Recliner remarked:
Anyway, how's this project of his going, at the moment:

http://www.cityam.com/254895/chris-g...work-rail-its-
dominance-over

He still seems to be keen on some version of that idea in new
franchises,

Including the one announced today?

--
Roland Perry

On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 10:14:14 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 15:00:54 on
Wed, 9 Aug 2017, Recliner remarked:
Anyway, how's this project of his going, at the moment:

http://www.cityam.com/254895/chris-g...work-rail-its-
dominance-over

He still seems to be keen on some version of that idea in new
franchises,

Including the one announced today?

I've not had chance to read up on it.

On Wed, 9 Aug 2017 07:25:17 -0000 (UTC), Recliner
wrote:

Not any more they don't. A lot of resources were used to make sure
those 'long trains' can't try to escape towards the Met line.

The signaling from Hanger Lane to Rayners Lane has not had the
appropriate immunisation from those nasty S stocks.

The District and Picc lines share track from Acton Town through Ealing
Common station to Hanger Lane Junction. Once in a while, a District line
train gets sent, wrongly, towards North Ealing, and occasionally Piccadilly
line trains serve Ealing Broadway.

Years ago it used be a District route shared with the Piccadilly but
that stopped long before the line was extended to Heathrow

Originally it was purely a District line route all the way to Hounslow. The
Piccadilly line came later.
--

Steve F.
London Docklands, E16, UK

On Wed, 9 Aug 2017 09:13:29 +0000 (UTC), d wrote:

Hounslow Central. There is overheight protection just west of the
station.

I think the only sub surface train I have travelled on the route was
the Steam special from Northfields a couple of years back.

How far can a sub surface stock go down the heathrow branch these days?
Obviously the heathrow tunnels and houslow west are too small for one.
--

Steve F.
London Docklands, E16, UK

On 2017\08\12 19:18, Steve F. wrote:

The signaling from Hanger Lane to Rayners Lane has not had the
appropriate immunisation from those nasty S stocks.

Clarification: you mean Hanger Lane Junction (which is just south of
North Ealing station) and not Hanger Lane station.

Steve F. wrote:
On Wed, 9 Aug 2017 09:13:29 +0000 (UTC), d wrote:

Hounslow Central. There is overheight protection just west of the
station.

I think the only sub surface train I have travelled on the route was
the Steam special from Northfields a couple of years back.

How far can a sub surface stock go down the heathrow branch these days?
Obviously the heathrow tunnels and houslow west are too small for one.

Does that mean the A and now D stock RATs go as far west as Hounslow
Central?

On 04.08.2017 12:48 PM, d wrote:
On Thu, 03 Aug 2017 20:29:21 -0500
wrote:
In article , d () wrote:

On Thu, 03 Aug 2017 12:01:28 +0100
Recliner wrote:
On Thu, 3 Aug 2017 11:38:16 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 08:36:44 on Thu, 3 Aug
2017, d remarked:

As an aside, how do trains on the ECML get south of the river, where's
the link to the current thameslink route?

Slaps forehead

Indeed!

Indeed what? Is knowing the precise junction layouts of the various lines
a prerequsite of being able to discuss this?

No, but it would help you not look like a total prat.

When I start wearing an anorak and hanging around at the end of platforms
carrying a thermos flask and notebook I might give a ****. Until then...

As a curious observer, I'm interested to know how "wearing an anorak and
hanging around and the end of platforms" and "arguing on Usenet (of all the
places) about things you're ignorant of like an Asperger's sufferer without
the good points" compare in terms of social acceptability, in spudworld?

It looks like virgins fighting over who pretended to buy a packet of condoms
to me...

On Wed, 16 Aug 2017 19:04:33 -0000 (UTC)
Clank wrote:
On 04.08.2017 12:48 PM, d wrote:
On Thu, 03 Aug 2017 20:29:21 -0500
wrote:
In article , d () wrote:

On Thu, 03 Aug 2017 12:01:28 +0100
Recliner wrote:
On Thu, 3 Aug 2017 11:38:16 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 08:36:44 on Thu, 3 Aug
2017, d remarked:

As an aside, how do trains on the ECML get south of the river, where's
the link to the current thameslink route?

Slaps forehead

Indeed!

Indeed what? Is knowing the precise junction layouts of the various lines
a prerequsite of being able to discuss this?

No, but it would help you not look like a total prat.

When I start wearing an anorak and hanging around at the end of platforms
carrying a thermos flask and notebook I might give a ****. Until then...

As a curious observer, I'm interested to know how "wearing an anorak and
hanging around and the end of platforms" and "arguing on Usenet (of all the
places) about things you're ignorant of like an Asperger's sufferer without
the good points" compare in terms of social acceptability, in spudworld?

It looks like virgins fighting over who pretended to buy a packet of condoms
to me...

Usenet is an amusing diversion at work. I don't bother at weekends or in the
evenings when I have more interesting things to do.

--
Spud