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Roland Perry March 21st 07 05:16 PM

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In message .com, at
10:55:05 on Wed, 21 Mar 2007, TimB remarked:
Having just slogged through all the planning documentation for the new KX
ticket hall, its all been designed for 12 tph suburban and 7 tph long
distance. I can't believe they are designing KX on the basis that these 12
services will disappear as soon as Thameslink is completed, so are these
suburban services going to be additional, if all current services are due to
go down the Thameslink route when its finished?


Well, the *ticket hall* can sell tickets for trains in the main shed
or Thameslink, doesn't matter which, I assume.


Although Thameslink does have its own new ticket office in St Pancras
(shared with MML and the kent Domestics).
--
Roland Perry

John Rowland March 22nd 07 12:12 PM

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Tom Anderson wrote:

The only problem i can see with the 'Anglostar' name is if services
are run up north - i really can't see the Scots being happy with that
one!


We need a British version of "Bullet Train". How about "Knife Train"?



Bob Wood March 22nd 07 12:41 PM

St Pancras 'Midland Road'
 
In ,
John Rowland typed:

Tom Anderson wrote:

The only problem i can see with the 'Anglostar' name is if services
are run up north - i really can't see the Scots being happy with that
one!



We need a British version of "Bullet Train". How about "Knife Train"?



Isn't a Javelin just a very long knife?




--
Bob



Charles Ellson March 22nd 07 01:21 PM

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On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:41:25 GMT, "Bob Wood"
wrote:

In ,
John Rowland typed:

Tom Anderson wrote:

The only problem i can see with the 'Anglostar' name is if services
are run up north - i really can't see the Scots being happy with that
one!



We need a British version of "Bullet Train". How about "Knife Train"?



Isn't a Javelin just a very long knife?

Try slicing something with a javelin.

Bruce Fletcher March 22nd 07 02:07 PM

St Pancras 'Midland Road'
 
John Rowland wrote:
Tom Anderson wrote:
The only problem i can see with the 'Anglostar' name is if services
are run up north - i really can't see the Scots being happy with that
one!


We need a British version of "Bullet Train". How about "Knife Train"?


"Master Cutler"?
--
Bruce Fletcher
Stronsay, Orkney
www.stronsay.co.uk/claremont

Colin Rosenstiel March 22nd 07 02:55 PM

St Pancras 'Midland Road'
 
In article ,
(Paul Scott) wrote:

"Colin Rosenstiel" wrote in message
...
What about cyclists?! This is what I've been asking about and
haven't been getting intelligent answers.


Its all covered in the weeds of the planning documents on LB
Camden's website - but there is no single summary I can find.
Various drawings show bike storage, the largest is at the north end
of platform 8, for about 84 'bike stores', some at the station
(south) front, and various indications in the text that the main
Camden cycle routes are accessible from between KX and St Pancras,
and capacity is doubling from the current level, which is in line
with research so far. I'm also guessing that cycle capacity in the
design allows for the eventual shift of services to the Thameslink
side of St Pancras, may be there is provision in their project
too...


Cycle storage has nothing whatsoever to do with access by cyclists
between the local road system and trains! The present approaches are
hardly cycle-friendly, though, in the other direction, from the suburban
station (platforms 9-11) it's not bad.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Tom Anderson March 22nd 07 03:15 PM

St Pancras 'Midland Road'
 
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, John Rowland wrote:

Tom Anderson wrote:

The only problem i can see with the 'Anglostar' name is if services are
run up north - i really can't see the Scots being happy with that one!


We need a British version of "Bullet Train". How about "Knife Train"?


Cosh train?

Since we're moving away from Waterloo, perhaps we could stick two fingers
up at the French by calling it the Arrow Train instead :).

tom

--
Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design.

Tim Fenton March 22nd 07 03:27 PM

St Pancras 'Midland Road'
 

"Bob Wood" wrote in message
...

We need a British version of "Bullet Train". How about "Knife Train"?


Isn't a Javelin just a very long knife?


More a kind of dart - and someone else already used that for a form of
transport.

--
Tim

"I do not approve of the words that came out of my mouth" - Jade Goody



Mike Roebuck March 22nd 07 04:10 PM

St Pancras 'Midland Road'
 
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:15:51 +0000, Tom Anderson
wrote:

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, John Rowland wrote:

Tom Anderson wrote:

The only problem i can see with the 'Anglostar' name is if services are
run up north - i really can't see the Scots being happy with that one!


We need a British version of "Bullet Train". How about "Knife Train"?


Cosh train?

Since we're moving away from Waterloo, perhaps we could stick two fingers
up at the French by calling it the Arrow Train instead :).


We've already had the "Golden Arrow". How about "The Longbow" instead?

:-)


--
What New Labour are in favour of is commerce. Privatise the economy, nationalise the people.

Peter Masson March 22nd 07 04:41 PM

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"Tom Anderson" wrote

Since we're moving away from Waterloo, perhaps we could stick two fingers
up at the French by calling it the Arrow Train instead :).

Golden Arrow?

Peter




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