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Heathrow Piccadilly Line Closure
"Mait001" wrote in message
... They've been putting in lifts at Brixton Station for about the last two years! It took even longer to do this to the District Line platforms at Earl's Court, and that didn't even invove any tunnelling! Has the lift on the District southbound at West Brompton gone in yet? -- John Rowland - Spamtrapped Transport Plans for the London Area, updated 2001 http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro...69/tpftla.html A man's vehicle is a symbol of his manhood. That's why my vehicle's the Piccadilly Line - It's the size of a county and it comes every two and a half minutes |
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Heathrow Piccadilly Line Closure
My law Degree is almost 20 years old now! I got it at a time when jury
trial was sacrosanct, innocence till found guilty, no dentention without trial, Cabinet government, no restrospective legislation .... How old-fashioned all of this now seems! What retrospective legislation has been passed? Who is not innocent till found guilty? Your first question: all legislation that criminalises conduct which, at the time it was performed, was not a criminal act; e.g. Sexual Offences Act 2003, which criminalises certain conduct restrospectively. Your second question: the same Act is an example: people (usually men) can now be subjected to a Sexual Offences Prevention Order even if acquitted of the offence with which they have been charged. The Order can prohibit anything from travelling on public transport to owning or using a telephone, camera, computer, television: there is no exhaustive list so the Court an literally order anything at all. Another example is the various money laundering and proceeds of crime legislation that requires someone to prove that money or property they have in their possession is not the proceeds of crime: unless it is so proved it is confiscated by the State. And, under the new proposals, we will all be deemed "non persons" until we can prove, by production of an identity card, who we are. Marc. |
Heathrow Piccadilly Line Closure
They've been putting in lifts at Brixton Station for
about the last two years! It took even longer to do this to the District Line platforms at Earl's Court, and that didn't even invove any tunnelling! Has the lift on the District southbound at West Brompton gone in yet? -- John Rowland - Spamtrapped I didn't know that this was happening, but I did see a lost of scaffolding when I last passed there a few weeks ago. Whatever they do, I hope they don't remove the historic "VV" West Brompton signs near the staircase there. Marc. |
Heathrow Piccadilly Line Closure
In message , John Rowland
writes And they'll be even more annoyed if they ever find out that LU shut T4 station a day early just so they can get their trains all pointing the "right way around", when every Picc depot seems to have coped fine with trains in random directions every night since 1987. -- John Rowland This is just luck that no train has broken down in a tube section and need assistance from the rear. -- Clive. |
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Heathrow Piccadilly Line Closure
In message , John Rowland
writes Who is not innocent till found guilty? -- John Rowland The "possible" terrorists in Belmarsh prison. -- Clive. |
Heathrow Piccadilly Line Closure
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, John Rowland wrote:
"Tom Anderson" wrote in message ... On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Dave Arquati wrote: I believe even in the tunnel to Bank for an underground station to replace Tower Gateway, which was originally going to be closed in favour of Bank, but DLR decided operationally that it was too useful to close. Do you have any (pointers to) more information on this? The flat straight spot between two very steep curved sections is quite obvious if you ride the DLR to or from Bank, especially if you sit in the front. Is that right after the junction with the Tower Gateway branch, immediately south of Tower Gateway station? That's the only likely-looking straight bit i can see on the (admittedly quite poor) maps i can find. Although it is on the right tunnel, sadly, it's even further from Fenchurch Street than Tower Gateway - although perhaps closer to Tower Hill. tom -- It involves police, bailiffs, vampires and a portal to hell under a tower block in Hackney. |
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Heathrow Piccadilly Line Closure
In message , Clive Coleman
writes And they'll be even more annoyed if they ever find out that LU shut T4 station a day early just so they can get their trains all pointing the "right way around", when every Picc depot seems to have coped fine with trains in random directions every night since 1987. This is just luck that no train has broken down in a tube section and need assistance from the rear. That bit's easy to do. I've known pushouts to happen two or three times in the past three years. Mechanical coupling isn't the problem, it's getting the two bits of train to talk to each other electrically that needs them to be correctly aligned. An 'A' end unit won't/can't talk to another 'A' end unit, just a 'D' end one, and the 'D' end units can't talk to another 'D' end unit, just an 'A' end one. The three car units (half a train) are frequently split and re-coupled in depots and this would be a nightmare if all the trains were different ways round. As I pointed out earlier, this is currently got round by sending a train round the loop to turn it if required. After 8th Jan, this won't be possible so they are making sure they all face the same way before the event, so we'll be just like all the other lines (well, most of them anyway). -- Steve Fitzgerald has now left the building. You will find him in London's Docklands, E16, UK (please use the reply to address for email) |
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