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[email protected] April 21st 05 08:07 AM

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I see the Jubilee is now with the Bakerloo . I can't wait til the
Northern gers online:)


purple pete April 21st 05 10:20 AM

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I see the Jubilee is now with the Bakerloo . I can't wait til the
Northern gers online:)


Bit of a shame if you wanted Wembley Park tho.



PhilD April 21st 05 11:58 AM

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purple pete wrote:
Bit of a shame if you wanted Wembley Park tho.



At a wild guess, I'd say that's on
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tube/travelinfo/eta/jubilee-station-view.asp?StationCode=WEP.
The station name appears as a separate bit on the end of the URL
(sorry, don't know the technical term), so you can confuse people if
you want to, like this:

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tube/travelinfo/eta/jubilee-station-view.asp?StationCode=STA&StationName=Wagga%20Wagga

:-)

PhilD

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Tom Anderson April 21st 05 03:31 PM

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On 21 Apr 2005, PhilD wrote:

purple pete wrote:

Bit of a shame if you wanted Wembley Park tho.


At a wild guess, I'd say that's on
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tube/travelinfo/eta/jubilee-station-view.asp?StationCode=WEP.
The station name appears as a separate bit on the end of the URL
(sorry, don't know the technical term),


I'd call that a query parameter, although i can't find a citation for that
in the standards anywhere just now.

so you can confuse people if you want to, like this:

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tube/travelinfo/eta/jubilee-station-view.asp?StationCode=STA&StationName=Wagga%20Wagga


This is what we call a Widdecombe, after:

http://www.political.co.uk/annwiddec...on=Wagga+Wagga

See:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=sit...he%2 0week%22

For many, many more.

I notice that the station codes are gratuitously incompatible with the
ones NR use for their live departure boards - STR is Stratford or
Stranraer, depending on who you ask. They're also different to LU's own
signal box codes; AIUI, those don't cover every station, though, so
perhaps not surprising.

tom

--
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Paul April 21st 05 08:15 PM

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On 21 Apr 2005 01:07:02 -0700, wrote:

I see the Jubilee is now with the Bakerloo . I can't wait til the
Northern gers online:)


Should be there within about 6-8 weeks (and the Victoria)

Paul

Chris Tolley April 22nd 05 10:39 AM

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On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 16:31:32 +0100, Tom Anderson wrote:

I notice that the station codes are gratuitously incompatible with the
ones NR use


and?
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Tom Anderson April 22nd 05 01:45 PM

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On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Chris Tolley wrote:

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 16:31:32 +0100, Tom Anderson wrote:

I notice that the station codes are gratuitously incompatible with the
ones NR use


and?


Why?

tom

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RW April 22nd 05 04:57 PM

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"Paul" wrote in message
...
On 21 Apr 2005 01:07:02 -0700, wrote:

I see the Jubilee is now with the Bakerloo . I can't wait til the
Northern gers online:)


Should be there within about 6-8 weeks (and the Victoria)

Paul


Any idea when the Central goes online?



purple pete April 22nd 05 09:09 PM

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Any idea when the Central goes online?


Yeah, when it moves ;-)



Tom Anderson April 23rd 05 09:48 AM

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On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Barry Salter wrote:

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 16:31:32 +0100, Tom Anderson
wrote:

I notice that the station codes are gratuitously incompatible with the
ones NR use for their live departure boards - STR is Stratford or
Stranraer, depending on who you ask. They're also different to LU's own
signal box codes; AIUI, those don't cover every station, though, so
perhaps not surprising.


They're also incompatible with the station codes that NR use for LU
stations (which all have a Z prefix, such as ZFD for Farringdon, ZMG for
Moorgate, ZBB for Barbican).


Are those part of the same set of codes they use for their own stations?
So NR stations get STR, CHX, etc, whilst LU ones get Zxx? If so, i didn't
realise that system covered LU, and there's really no reason for the LU
system to have come up with its own codes.

tom

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