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Ian Jelf wrote:

I'll open with Yerkes' Law as a suggestion. Any others?!

Yerkes' Second Law: Trains will only be held to regulate the service
at non-interchange stations.
I feel a serious document worthy of academic study coming on here.
Beck's Law: District/Metropolitan/H&C Line Trains come when waiting
for a Circle Line Train; Circle Line trains come when waiting for a
District/Metropolitan/H&C Line Train.


Earls Law: 'Olympia' 'Richmond' and 'Special' Trains shall come when
waiting at Earls Court for a Wimbledon train

Is someone writing all this down? :-))
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Birmingham, UK

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On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:10:48 +0100, Mystery Flyer wrote:

I'll open with Yerkes' Law as a suggestion. Any others?!

Yerkes' Second Law: Trains will only be held to regulate the service
at non-interchange stations.

I feel a serious document worthy of academic study coming on here.

Beck's Law: District/Metropolitan/H&C Line Trains come when waiting for
a Circle Line Train; Circle Line trains come when waiting for a
District/Metropolitan/H&C Line Train.

Earls Law: 'Olympia' 'Richmond' and 'Special' Trains shall come when
waiting at Earls Court for a Wimbledon train

The Acton Town Principle:

If waiting for a Rayners Lane train, the first three trains to arrive
will each be one of: Heathrow, Northfields, Ealing Broadway, Stops
Here, Special.

If waiting for an Ealing Broadway train, the first three trains to
arrive will each be one of: Heathrow, Northfields, Rayners Lane,
Ruislip, Uxbridge, Stops Here, Special.

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:14:08 +0100, Colin McKenzie wrote:

Beck's Law: District/Metropolitan/H&C Line Trains come when waiting for
a Circle Line Train; Circle Line trains come when waiting for a
District/Metropolitan/H&C Line Train.

Beck's second law: if you change from District to Piccadilly at Barons
Court Westbound, at least two Ealing Broadway trains will reach Acton
Town before an Uxbridge train turns up.

If you don't, one will overtake you.

Beck's Third Law: If travelling from Baker Street or Finchley Road to
Harrow-on-the-Hill, and the next two trains are an all-stations
followed by a fast, whichever one you don't take will arrive at Harrow
first.

On Oct 25, 12:11 am, asdf wrote:
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:10:48 +0100, Mystery Flyer wrote:
I'll open with Yerkes' Law as a suggestion. Any others?!

Yerkes' Second Law: Trains will only be held to regulate the service
at non-interchange stations.

I feel a serious document worthy of academic study coming on here.

Beck's Law: District/Metropolitan/H&C Line Trains come when waiting for
a Circle Line Train; Circle Line trains come when waiting for a
District/Metropolitan/H&C Line Train.

Earls Law: 'Olympia' 'Richmond' and 'Special' Trains shall come when
waiting at Earls Court for a Wimbledon train

The Acton Town Principle:

If waiting for a Rayners Lane train, the first three trains to arrive
will each be one of: Heathrow, Northfields, Ealing Broadway, Stops
Here, Special.

If waiting for an Ealing Broadway train, the first three trains to
arrive will each be one of: Heathrow, Northfields, Rayners Lane,
Ruislip, Uxbridge, Stops Here, Special.


Sands Law: if the up escalator is on the right, the exit gates are on
the left.

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:11:33 +0100, asdf
wrote:

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:10:48 +0100, Mystery Flyer wrote:

I'll open with Yerkes' Law as a suggestion. Any others?!

Yerkes' Second Law: Trains will only be held to regulate the service
at non-interchange stations.

I feel a serious document worthy of academic study coming on here.

Beck's Law: District/Metropolitan/H&C Line Trains come when waiting for
a Circle Line Train; Circle Line trains come when waiting for a
District/Metropolitan/H&C Line Train.

Earls Law: 'Olympia' 'Richmond' and 'Special' Trains shall come when
waiting at Earls Court for a Wimbledon train

The Acton Town Principle:

If waiting for a Rayners Lane train, the first three trains to arrive
will each be one of: Heathrow, Northfields, Ealing Broadway, Stops
Here, Special.

If waiting for an Ealing Broadway train, the first three trains to
arrive will each be one of: Heathrow, Northfields, Rayners Lane,
Ruislip, Uxbridge, Stops Here, Special.

If waiting for a Heathrow train (and even a Northfields train would
do!) the first two trains will be to Uxbridge and Rayners Lane.

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:40:16 -0700, MIG
wrote:

On Oct 25, 12:11 am, asdf wrote:
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:10:48 +0100, Mystery Flyer wrote:
I'll open with Yerkes' Law as a suggestion. Any others?!

Yerkes' Second Law: Trains will only be held to regulate the service
at non-interchange stations.

I feel a serious document worthy of academic study coming on here.

Beck's Law: District/Metropolitan/H&C Line Trains come when waiting for
a Circle Line Train; Circle Line trains come when waiting for a
District/Metropolitan/H&C Line Train.

Earls Law: 'Olympia' 'Richmond' and 'Special' Trains shall come when
waiting at Earls Court for a Wimbledon train

The Acton Town Principle:

If waiting for a Rayners Lane train, the first three trains to arrive
will each be one of: Heathrow, Northfields, Ealing Broadway, Stops
Here, Special.

If waiting for an Ealing Broadway train, the first three trains to
arrive will each be one of: Heathrow, Northfields, Rayners Lane,
Ruislip, Uxbridge, Stops Here, Special.


Sands Law: if the up escalator is on the right, the exit gates are on
the left.

Warren's Law: if you are not paying attention, the up and down
escalators will have been reversed.

Warren's Second Law: once you have taken two steps up the down
escalator, you must run all the way up it or risk looking very silly.

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, James Farrar wrote:

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:11:33 +0100, asdf
wrote:

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:10:48 +0100, Mystery Flyer wrote:

I'll open with Yerkes' Law as a suggestion. Any others?!

Yerkes' Second Law: Trains will only be held to regulate the service
at non-interchange stations.

I feel a serious document worthy of academic study coming on here.

Beck's Law: District/Metropolitan/H&C Line Trains come when waiting for
a Circle Line Train; Circle Line trains come when waiting for a
District/Metropolitan/H&C Line Train.

Earls Law: 'Olympia' 'Richmond' and 'Special' Trains shall come when
waiting at Earls Court for a Wimbledon train

The Acton Town Principle:

If waiting for a Rayners Lane train, the first three trains to arrive
will each be one of: Heathrow, Northfields, Ealing Broadway, Stops
Here, Special.

If waiting for an Ealing Broadway train, the first three trains to
arrive will each be one of: Heathrow, Northfields, Rayners Lane,
Ruislip, Uxbridge, Stops Here, Special.

If waiting for a Heathrow train (and even a Northfields train would
do!) the first two trains will be to Uxbridge and Rayners Lane.

Greathead's law: when waiting for a Northern line train, nothing at all
will come.

tom

--
Model 706-8073-421, Robot Sonic

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On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:14:08 +0100, Colin McKenzie wrote:

Beck's Law: District/Metropolitan/H&C Line Trains come when waiting for
a Circle Line Train; Circle Line trains come when waiting for a
District/Metropolitan/H&C Line Train.

Beck's second law: if you change from District to Piccadilly at Barons
Court Westbound, at least two Ealing Broadway trains will reach Acton
Town before an Uxbridge train turns up.

If you don't, one will overtake you.

Beck's Third Law: If travelling from Baker Street or Finchley Road to
Harrow-on-the-Hill, and the next two trains are an all-stations
followed by a fast, whichever one you don't take will arrive at Harrow
first.


Beck's Fourth Law: If you're travelling southbound on a Charing cross branch
train, it will terminate at Kennington. The only times you'll ever see a
through CX service is while waiting for a northbound Bank train.

BTN

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On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:14:08 +0100, Colin McKenzie wrote:

Beck's Law: District/Metropolitan/H&C Line Trains come when waiting
for
a Circle Line Train; Circle Line trains come when waiting for a
District/Metropolitan/H&C Line Train.

Beck's second law: if you change from District to Piccadilly at Barons
Court Westbound, at least two Ealing Broadway trains will reach Acton
Town before an Uxbridge train turns up.

If you don't, one will overtake you.

Beck's Third Law: If travelling from Baker Street or Finchley Road to
Harrow-on-the-Hill, and the next two trains are an all-stations
followed by a fast, whichever one you don't take will arrive at Harrow
first.


Beck's Fourth Law: If you're travelling southbound on a Charing cross
branch train, it will terminate at Kennington. The only times you'll ever
see a through CX service is while waiting for a northbound Bank train.

Holden's Theorem: Should a train be exceptionally reversed E2W at Arnos, the
likelihood of the following train going through is inversely proportional to
the clementness of the weather. Thus train reversed at Arnos at 15:00 on a
sunny warm July Sunday afternoon, next train going to Cock will be standing
at PJ2 waiting to come into the platform, passengers will not have finished
alighting from the first train before the PA informs them of the whereabouts
of the following train.
Train reversed at Arnos at 17:55 on a dark November Thursday evening with
the temp about freezing and a biting wind blowing a light sleeting rain
horizontally along the platform, next two trains will also reverse (both on
6 minute headways and one of them via P4), the third will be an Oakwood
stow, forth train in will be another reverser (booked) fifth train will go
to Cock. There will be no PA announcements.
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Cheers, Steve.
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