Chris Read:
Just a quick reminder that Shoreditch station (East London Line) will
close permanently this Friday. Last train appears to depart at 20:34

Tristán White:
Thanks for the reminder. And a rap on the knuckles of the people who
designed the latest map.... it says that the station would close on
Saturday 10 June whereas technically it's late on Friday 9 June.

I suggest that this is not an error as such, but the standard problem
of whether to report a closure date as "last day of service" or "first
day of no service". What's the actual wording on the map?
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Toronto is not reading matter, but prefabricated
parts of quarrels." -- Rudolf Flesch

"Mark Brader" wrote in message
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Chris Read:
Just a quick reminder that Shoreditch station (East London Line) will
close permanently this Friday. Last train appears to depart at 20:34

Tristán White:
Thanks for the reminder. And a rap on the knuckles of the people who
designed the latest map.... it says that the station would close on
Saturday 10 June whereas technically it's late on Friday 9 June.

I suggest that this is not an error as such, but the standard problem
of whether to report a closure date as "last day of service" or "first
day of no service". What's the actual wording on the map?

The Tube/TfL website states that "Shoreditch station will close permanently
after the end of service on Friday 9 June".
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tube/travelinf...me/planned.asp

Online Tube map says "Station closes permanently in June 2006". I assume
this is a smaller version of the wall map seen at stations.

The TfL Tube closures email I had yesterday states "Shoreditch station to
permanently close from Saturday 10 June 2006. For further details click
here."
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/unlinked/tube-...10-June-06.pdf
That statement is repeated on the map in the link. This is part of a leaflet
which starts with "From Saturday 10 June Shoreditch station permanently
closed".

Nick

Last train ex-Shoreditch is 20:33. I believe the following "staff"
train will carry invited big-wigs so the "genuine" passenger will be
unable to travel on the actual "last" departure. Or does the last
"public" working count as the official "last" anyway?

wrote:

Last train ex-Shoreditch is 20:33. I believe the following "staff"
train will carry invited big-wigs so the "genuine" passenger will be
unable to travel on the actual "last" departure. Or does the last
"public" working count as the official "last" anyway?

Well, most books that list this sort of thing tend to list two closures
- to passengers and to freight. Thinking this through, one might be
tempted to conclude that "bigwigs" are to be classified as freight.
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"Mark Brader" wrote in message
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Chris Read:
Just a quick reminder that Shoreditch station (East London Line) will
close permanently this Friday. Last train appears to depart at 20:34

Tristán White:
Thanks for the reminder. And a rap on the knuckles of the people who
designed the latest map.... it says that the station would close on
Saturday 10 June whereas technically it's late on Friday 9 June.

I suggest that this is not an error as such, but the standard problem
of whether to report a closure date as "last day of service" or "first
day of no service". What's the actual wording on the map?

Looking at the map tonight in Epping station shows that Shoreditch has a red
line through the name and a 'footnote sword' beside it, the branch from
Whitechapel is in the faded shade as normally used on lines being built and
there is a bus symbol to show how you can get there instead. I assume
details of that can be found on the base of the map by looking for the
footnote.

Nick