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Paul Corfield
I believe Paul was a regular here some time ago (and was very
knowledgable about LUL and buses). I've just been informed that he died last Sunday 24 November 2019 from cancer. He will be sorely missed. |
Paul Corfield
London calling wrote:
I believe Paul was a regular here some time ago (and was very knowledgable about LUL and buses). I've just been informed that he died last Sunday 24 November 2019 from cancer. He will be sorely missed. Very shocking news. He hadn't been active here for some time, but I had no idea he was ill. As you say, he was very well informed, and always balanced and polite in his postings. A real gent, and very professional. Very sad that he'll not be back. |
Paul Corfield
On 27/11/2019 22:12, London calling wrote:
I believe Paul was a regular here some time ago (and was very knowledgable about LUL and buses). I've just been informed that he died last Sunday 24 November 2019 from cancer. He will be sorely missed. He was by far the most knowledgeable person here on TfL issues, and was far from old... late 50s maybe. Let's hope he's gone to a place that has fewer overheating problems than the top of a Roastmaster. [Crossposted to uk.railway] -- Basil Jet recently enjoyed listening to Tap Tap - 2006 - Lanzafame |
Paul Corfield
On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 22:12:00 +0000, London calling
wrote: I believe Paul was a regular here some time ago (and was very knowledgable about LUL and buses). I've just been informed that he died last Sunday 24 November 2019 from cancer. He will be sorely missed. This is very sad news. I always scanned threads for his replies as they were most interesting and informative. His Flickr photos are he https://www.flickr.com/photos/24759744@N02/ -- jhk |
Paul Corfield
Jarle Hammen Knudsen wrote:
On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 22:12:00 +0000, London calling wrote: I believe Paul was a regular here some time ago (and was very knowledgable about LUL and buses). I've just been informed that he died last Sunday 24 November 2019 from cancer. He will be sorely missed. This is very sad news. I always scanned threads for his replies as they were most interesting and informative. His Flickr photos are he https://www.flickr.com/photos/24759744@N02/ I see he posted this message there five months ago: "Just a message to explain the lack of uploads recently. I have been diagnosed with a very serious medical condition. This means photography is pretty much out of the question. At this point in time I've no idea how long recovery may take or even if it that is likely. I have set things up that my account will auto renew shortly for a year so my full set of photos will remain online for your enjoyment. Thank you all for your continued support of my Flickrstream." |
Yes this is very sad, particularly at a fairly young age. I was wondering
why he no longer posted in this forum. |
Paul Corfield
Robin9 wrote:
Yes this is very sad, particularly at a fairly young age. I was wondering why he no longer posted in this forum. I think he dropped out if here before the illness. I think he may still have been active elsewhere till about five months ago. Does anyone know his age? I couldn't locate him on LinkedIn. I found this that he tweeted on 29 Oct: "Personal update - am no longer at home. Am in local palliative unit at Whipped Cross hospital. Had become too weak to manage independently so possibly best place for me now. Both GP and new consultant involved in decision." I wish I'd followed him on Twitter, as he provided regular news on his worsening illness. |
Paul Corfield
On 28/11/2019 16:04, Recliner wrote:
Robin9 wrote: Yes this is very sad, particularly at a fairly young age. I was wondering why he no longer posted in this forum. I think he dropped out if here before the illness. I think he may still have been active elsewhere till about five months ago. Does anyone know his age? I couldn't locate him on LinkedIn. I found this that he tweeted on 29 Oct: "Personal update - am no longer at home. Am in local palliative unit at Whipped Cross hospital. Had become too weak to manage independently so possibly best place for me now. Both GP and new consultant involved in decision." I wish I'd followed him on Twitter, as he provided regular news on his worsening illness. He is in a better place, one has to believe, regardless of whether that person is religious or not. |
Paul Corfield
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Paul Corfield
On Thu, 28 Nov 2019 16:46:37 GMT
Recliner wrote: wrote: On 28/11/2019 16:04, Recliner wrote: Robin9 wrote: Yes this is very sad, particularly at a fairly young age. I was wondering why he no longer posted in this forum. I think he dropped out if here before the illness. I think he may still have been active elsewhere till about five months ago. Does anyone know his age? I couldn't locate him on LinkedIn. I found this that he tweeted on 29 Oct: "Personal update - am no longer at home. Am in local palliative unit at Whipped Cross hospital. Had become too weak to manage independently so possibly best place for me now. Both GP and new consultant involved in decision." I wish I'd followed him on Twitter, as he provided regular news on his worsening illness. He is in a better place, one has to believe, regardless of whether that person is religious or not. Yes, going through his tweets, he had a sad, miserable last few months. He doesn't seem to have had close family, and I don't think he was religious. He used music as a distraction. I've had 2 family members die of cancer - its a miserable way to go. Despite the fact that new medicine is being developed we seem to hear about it more and more. I suppose its what gets you when everything else has been cured. |
Paul Corfield
"Recliner" wrote in message ... Robin9 wrote: Yes this is very sad, particularly at a fairly young age. I was wondering why he no longer posted in this forum. I think he dropped out if here before the illness. I think he may still have been active elsewhere till about five months ago. Does anyone know his age? I couldn't locate him on LinkedIn. I found him on twitter after reading this thread. Sounds like a rough final few months. From some mentions of how old he was when certain songs came out in other tweets, I would estimate he was born in 1964. James |
Paul Corfield
wrote in message ... On Thu, 28 Nov 2019 16:46:37 GMT Recliner wrote: wrote: On 28/11/2019 16:04, Recliner wrote: Robin9 wrote: Yes this is very sad, particularly at a fairly young age. I was wondering why he no longer posted in this forum. I think he dropped out if here before the illness. I think he may still have been active elsewhere till about five months ago. Does anyone know his age? I couldn't locate him on LinkedIn. I found this that he tweeted on 29 Oct: "Personal update - am no longer at home. Am in local palliative unit at Whipped Cross hospital. Had become too weak to manage independently so possibly best place for me now. Both GP and new consultant involved in decision." I wish I'd followed him on Twitter, as he provided regular news on his worsening illness. He is in a better place, one has to believe, regardless of whether that person is religious or not. Yes, going through his tweets, he had a sad, miserable last few months. He doesn't seem to have had close family, and I don't think he was religious. He used music as a distraction. I've had 2 family members die of cancer mother and father (though only one prematurely) - its a miserable way to go. Despite the fact that new medicine is being developed we seem to hear about it more and more. I suppose its what gets you when everything else has been cured. Yep, that's exactly what's happening tim |
Paul Corfield
In message , at 16:04:23 on Thu, 28
Nov 2019, Recliner remarked: Yes this is very sad, particularly at a fairly young age. I was wondering why he no longer posted in this forum. I think he dropped out if here before the illness. I think he may still have been active elsewhere till about five months ago. Does anyone know his age? I couldn't locate him on LinkedIn. The almost most recent posting I have here is July 2018: TfL press releases, board papers and reports are littered with such errors. No one bothers to properly proof read this stuff which means appalling errors are made and then published for the public to see. [mode = old git] "Wouldn't have happened in my day" From about five years ago I got the impression he'd been 'let go' perhaps prematurely from TfL after a career in ultimately customer-facing IT (such as Oyster and barriers) and then became an inveterate critic of the continuing regime. Such as (and not saying his self-imposed role was right or wrong, but it was very much his entitlement to do so) "Something has to give very soon because you can't keep prioritising Crossrail if it means a newly electrified line can't use electric trains *and* it may also lose its existing diesel trains. That is the sort of farce that is almost up there with the utter, utter shambles that is Thameslink / Great Northern." "TfL do produce assessments of broken trips, longer wait times etc. The only time I've seen one published was for the extensive New Addington changes 3 years ago. It showed the numbers of people affected, demand levels, costs and benefits of the options considered etc. It was genuinely interesting. However I suspect TfL take the view that the public aren't bothered with such things or would not understand them. They've not published one since, sadly. The cynic in me says they don't like to release too much detail in case it is turned against them by someone who might spot flaws or inconsistencies in the assumptions, data or calculations." "The Hopper fare is being used to justify the loss of many sections of bus route. Part of the 27 is being lost in Chiswick, the 224 is being axed in Wembley, the mass of cuts in and around Oxford St. There are also many more route massacres on their way. To coin a phrase "you ain't seen nothing yet". It's an accountant's wet dream as it allows the bus planners to rip the bus network to bits and leave the passengers (those that will be left) with the effort of taking multiple buses whereas today a journey can be done on one bus. One day I shall have to ask Caroline Pidgeon, who campaigned for the Hopper ticket, whether she also expected the bus network to be destroyed off the back of her initiative. Talk about unintended consequences." -- Roland Perry |
Paul Corfield
James Heaton wrote:
"Recliner" wrote in message ... Robin9 wrote: Yes this is very sad, particularly at a fairly young age. I was wondering why he no longer posted in this forum. I think he dropped out if here before the illness. I think he may still have been active elsewhere till about five months ago. Does anyone know his age? I couldn't locate him on LinkedIn. I found him on twitter after reading this thread. Sounds like a rough final few months. From some mentions of how old he was when certain songs came out in other tweets, I would estimate he was born in 1964. Ah, a bit younger than I'd have guessed. Very sad. |
Paul Corfield
On Thu, 28 Nov 2019 18:22:03 +0000, Roland Perry
wrote: .... From about five years ago I got the impression he'd been 'let go' perhaps prematurely from TfL after a career in ultimately customer-facing IT (such as Oyster and barriers) and then became an inveterate critic of the continuing regime. Such as (and not saying his self-imposed role was right or wrong, but it was very much his entitlement to do so) I had saved a posting from 4-7-2007 when he was "admitting to working for LU", where he's objectively (IMHO) critical of some of his employer's ways, and praising too. No way did he come across as more harsh afterwards. Very fact-based. He went personal on twitter with reluctance when his tumour proved nasty. Enjoy, if that's the term: *** A non TfL website has quite a lot of info here http://www.londonbusroutes.net/details.htm Click on the route number in the big list to bring up the timetable if one is available. Note TfL no longer officially produce or publish proper timetables - IMO it's shameful that a private individual is left to provide this sort of valuable info for one of the great world cities. Depending on how frequent a service then service performance may be measured either on keeping buses running to the broad frequency (for what TfL call high frequency routes) or to the scheduled timetable (for low frequency routes) More info here http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/businessan...reports/#faqs2 If my bus service ran every 5 minutes and did so reliably then I really wouldn't care about a timetable. However I object to being left to just wander to a bus stop to wait up to 12 minutes just because TfL can't be bothered to tell me the minutes past the hour a bus runs. Only when frequencies reach every 15 minutes or less frequently do they put up the minutes past the hour at the stop. It is also worth noting that many bus frequencies are not that high early in the morning or late in the evening even on trunk routes running from Central London. I recognise things can go wrong and buses do diverge from the timetable and that's fine if I have access to good information to allow me to make more informed choices. As I cannot take any decent TfL produced information with me I have to spend a load of time researching all possible options before I leave and then scribble them down so if I am making lots of journeys on unfamiliar services (as I did visiting some gardens open under the National Garden Scheme the other Sunday). This is a pain in the posterior - why can't I just pop to a travel info centre and ask for the timetable leaflets or buy a timetable book? Strange that even my least favourite commercial operators outside of London can manage to do this relatively easily. Overall I think the TfL bus network is pretty damn good but the whole approach to passenger information I cannot stand. Paul C Admits to working for London Underground! *** -- Old anti-spam address cmylod at despammed dot com appears broke So back to cmylod at bigfoot dot com |
Paul Corfield
In message , at 15:28:20 on
Sat, 30 Nov 2019, Colum Mylod remarked: On Thu, 28 Nov 2019 18:22:03 +0000, Roland Perry wrote: ... From about five years ago I got the impression he'd been 'let go' perhaps prematurely from TfL after a career in ultimately customer-facing IT (such as Oyster and barriers) and then became an inveterate critic of the continuing regime. Such as (and not saying his self-imposed role was right or wrong, but it was very much his entitlement to do so) I had saved a posting from 4-7-2007 when he was "admitting to working for LU", Such postings exist back to at least 2000. Also with the tagline "the big camp *******" (tm d.a.r.s.y) VFR800 | ZX6R | R1150GS" in the biker community. A multi-modal champion. where he's objectively (IMHO) critical of some of his employer's ways, and praising too. No way did he come across as more harsh afterwards. Very fact-based. As far as you are aware was he still working for TfL until very recently. Or was there at some point a break? While I can't currently cite any postings, my recollection is that there was change to "this wouldn't have happened on my watch" at some point. -- Roland Perry |
Paul Corfield
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 15:28:20 on Sat, 30 Nov 2019, Colum Mylod remarked: On Thu, 28 Nov 2019 18:22:03 +0000, Roland Perry wrote: ... From about five years ago I got the impression he'd been 'let go' perhaps prematurely from TfL after a career in ultimately customer-facing IT (such as Oyster and barriers) and then became an inveterate critic of the continuing regime. Such as (and not saying his self-imposed role was right or wrong, but it was very much his entitlement to do so) I had saved a posting from 4-7-2007 when he was "admitting to working for LU", Such postings exist back to at least 2000. Also with the tagline "the big camp *******" (tm d.a.r.s.y) VFR800 | ZX6R | R1150GS" in the biker community. A multi-modal champion. where he's objectively (IMHO) critical of some of his employer's ways, and praising too. No way did he come across as more harsh afterwards. Very fact-based. As far as you are aware was he still working for TfL until very recently. Or was there at some point a break? While I can't currently cite any postings, my recollection is that there was change to "this wouldn't have happened on my watch" at some point. My memory is that he was pushed out of TfL a few years ago, and didn't get another job. Perhaps he did some consulting, but I don't recall his ever mentioning any such work. |
Paul Corfield
On 27/11/2019 22:12, London calling wrote:
I believe Paul was a regular here some time ago (and was very knowledgable about LUL and buses). I've just been informed that he died last Sunday 24 November 2019 from cancer. He will be sorely missed. Indeed, a sad loss. There is a thread on London Reconnections at https://www.londonreconnections.com/...a-friend-plcd/ -- Richard J. (to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address) |
Paul Corfield
On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 21:21:51 +0000, "Richard J."
wrote: Indeed, a sad loss. There is a thread on London Reconnections at https://www.londonreconnections.com/...a-friend-plcd/ Known as Snoggle elsewhere (tango.proboards) and mentioned on http://districtdavesforum.co.uk/thre...ld-aka-snoggle RIP -- Old anti-spam address cmylod at despammed dot com appears broke So back to cmylod at bigfoot dot com |
detailed bus timetables (was: Paul Corfield)
In uk.railway Colum Mylod wrote:
On Thu, 28 Nov 2019 18:22:03 +0000, Roland Perry wrote: A non TfL website has quite a lot of info here http://www.londonbusroutes.net/details.htm Click on the route number in the big list to bring up the timetable if one is available. Note TfL no longer officially produce or publish proper timetables - IMO it's shameful that a private individual is left to provide this sort of valuable info for one of the great world cities. Depending on how frequent a service then service performance may be measured either on keeping buses running to the broad frequency (for what TfL call high frequency routes) or to the scheduled timetable (for low frequency routes) More info here http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/businessan...reports/#faqs2 If my bus service ran every 5 minutes and did so reliably then I really wouldn't care about a timetable. However I object to being left to just wander to a bus stop to wait up to 12 minutes just because TfL can't be bothered to tell me the minutes past the hour a bus runs. Only when frequencies reach every 15 minutes or less frequently do they put up the minutes past the hour at the stop. It is also worth noting that many bus frequencies are not that high early in the morning or late in the evening even on trunk routes running from Central London. I recognise things can go wrong and buses do diverge from the timetable and that's fine if I have access to good information to allow me to make more informed choices. As I cannot take any decent TfL produced information with me I have to spend a load of time researching all possible options before I leave and then scribble them down so if I am making lots of journeys on unfamiliar services (as I did visiting some gardens open under the National Garden Scheme the other Sunday). This is a pain in the posterior - why can't I just pop to a travel info centre and ask for the timetable leaflets or buy a timetable book? Strange that even my least favourite commercial operators outside of London can manage to do this relatively easily. Overall I think the TfL bus network is pretty damn good but the whole approach to passenger information I cannot stand. Paul C It's a generalized pattern in the communication departments of bus companies. I had the same discussion with the customer services of Thames Travel and Stagecoach in Oxfordshire about publishing bus stop timetables online. In Oxfordshire you can have very complex timetables, where the bus takes a different route and does not serve a stop every hour, and each hour comes at a different time. On stagecoach they even forwarded my message to somebody at a higher level, and they told me they were not going to do that. They have all those timetables internally but they stubbornly refuse to publish them online. Now I see that even working from the inside like Paul it's impossible to get that done. And he was also right about proofreading. On one ocasion they printed thousand of leaflets with timetables that were wrong from beginning to end and released them to the public. Thames Travel and Stagecoach are private companies. We don't have public buses in Oxfordshire, so corporate stupidity is not exclusive of public companies like TfL. PS: I didn't know about Paul since I came recently to these newsgroups. I can realize about the loss of him passing away so early. |
detailed bus timetables (was: Paul Corfield)
"GWR user" wrote in message o.uk... In uk.railway Colum Mylod wrote: On Thu, 28 Nov 2019 18:22:03 +0000, Roland Perry wrote: A non TfL website has quite a lot of info here http://www.londonbusroutes.net/details.htm Click on the route number in the big list to bring up the timetable if one is available. Note TfL no longer officially produce or publish proper timetables - IMO it's shameful that a private individual is left to provide this sort of valuable info for one of the great world cities. Depending on how frequent a service then service performance may be measured either on keeping buses running to the broad frequency (for what TfL call high frequency routes) or to the scheduled timetable (for low frequency routes) More info here http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/businessan...reports/#faqs2 If my bus service ran every 5 minutes and did so reliably then I really wouldn't care about a timetable. However I object to being left to just wander to a bus stop to wait up to 12 minutes just because TfL can't be bothered to tell me the minutes past the hour a bus runs. Only when frequencies reach every 15 minutes or less frequently do they put up the minutes past the hour at the stop. It is also worth noting that many bus frequencies are not that high early in the morning or late in the evening even on trunk routes running from Central London. I recognise things can go wrong and buses do diverge from the timetable and that's fine if I have access to good information to allow me to make more informed choices. As I cannot take any decent TfL produced information with me I have to spend a load of time researching all possible options before I leave and then scribble them down so if I am making lots of journeys on unfamiliar services (as I did visiting some gardens open under the National Garden Scheme the other Sunday). This is a pain in the posterior - why can't I just pop to a travel info centre and ask for the timetable leaflets or buy a timetable book? Strange that even my least favourite commercial operators outside of London can manage to do this relatively easily. Overall I think the TfL bus network is pretty damn good but the whole approach to passenger information I cannot stand. Paul C It's a generalized pattern in the communication departments of bus companies. I have a friend who come from a medium size regional European city Like most cities urban bus route runs once every 10-15 minutes so that all the information that's at the stop (plus first and last bust times) but on one occasion I found myself at a stop where the bus ran once per hour and that's all the information that the sign at the stop gave me tim |
detailed bus timetables
On 04/12/2019 19:02, tim... wrote:
I have a friend who come from a medium size regional European city Like most cities urban bus route runs once every 10-15 minutes so that all the information that's at the stop (plus first and last bust times) but on one occasion I found myself at a stop where the bus ran once per hour and that's all the information that the sign at the stop gave me Did it give the first and last times? -- Basil Jet recently enjoyed listening to Oasis - 2000 - Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants |
detailed bus timetables
"Basil Jet" wrote in message ... On 04/12/2019 19:02, tim... wrote: I have a friend who come from a medium size regional European city Like most cities urban bus route runs once every 10-15 minutes so that all the information that's at the stop (plus first and last bust times) but on one occasion I found myself at a stop where the bus ran once per hour and that's all the information that the sign at the stop gave me Did it give the first and last times? It did but they were significantly different in terms of minuses past the hour so it wasn't possible to infer an XX past every hour from the first bus tim -- Basil Jet recently enjoyed listening to Oasis - 2000 - Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants |
Paul Corfield
On Thu, 28 Nov 2019 16:04:23 GMT, Recliner
wrote: Does anyone know his age? I couldn't locate him on LinkedIn. 54 - 5 years younger than me worryingly. |
Paul Corfield
London calling wrote:
On Thu, 28 Nov 2019 16:04:23 GMT, Recliner wrote: Does anyone know his age? I couldn't locate him on LinkedIn. 54 - 5 years younger than me worryingly. Yes, several people have confirmed that. I must admit that I'd wrongly guessed he was slightly older. Do you know if he worked after leaving LU? |
Paul Corfield
On Sun, 1 Dec 2019 21:25:15 -0000 (UTC), Recliner
wrote: While I can't currently cite any postings, my recollection is that there was change to "this wouldn't have happened on my watch" at some point. My memory is that he was pushed out of TfL a few years ago, and didn't get another job. Perhaps he did some consulting, but I don't recall his ever mentioning any such work. I knew Paul at the time (I very regretably lost touch with him in the past couple of years). He took VS from LUL when they were cutting down. He stated to me that he was comfortable enough with his fairly frugal lifestyle that he could continue for many years. Other than blogs (London Reunited) and his postings (which he wouldn't have been paid for) I don't believe he did any paid work. |
detailed bus timetables
In uk.railway Colum Mylod wrote: A non TfL website has quite a lot of info here http://www.londonbusroutes.net/details.htm Click on the route number in the big list to bring up the timetable if one is available. Note TfL no longer officially produce or publish proper timetables - IMO it's shameful that a private individual is left to provide this sort of valuable info for one of the great world cities. Depending on how frequent a service then service performance may be measured either on keeping buses running to the broad frequency (for what TfL call high frequency routes) or to the scheduled timetable (for low frequency routes) More info here http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/businessan...reports/#faqs2 This link does not exist anymore. Do you mean this one? https://tfl.gov.uk/travel-information/timetables/ Or this one? https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/buses/ Rink |
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