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Mitcham Eastfields
Despite being in the timetable and local gossip, the station was not open
today and is clearly some way from completion. Any new date proposed? Month? Year? Century? MaxB |
Mitcham Eastfields
On Mon, 19 May 2008 12:29:21 +0100, "Batman55"
wrote: Despite being in the timetable and local gossip, the station was not open today and is clearly some way from completion. Any new date proposed? Month? Year? Century? 1 June 2008 -- Paul C Admits to working for London Underground! |
Mitcham Eastfields
On 19 May, 12:48, Paul Corfield wrote:
1 June 2008 Yes, announced on the FCC website: http://www.firstcapitalconnect.co.uk...iCmsPageId=331 It certainly wasn't ready to open when I visited on Saturday: http://londonconnections.blogspot.co...eks-to-go.html U -- http://londonconnections.blogspot.com/ A blog about transport projects in London |
Mitcham Eastfields
"Mr Thant" wrote in message ... On 19 May, 12:48, Paul Corfield wrote: 1 June 2008 Yes, announced on the FCC website: http://www.firstcapitalconnect.co.uk...iCmsPageId=331 It certainly wasn't ready to open when I visited on Saturday: http://londonconnections.blogspot.co...eks-to-go.html U -- http://londonconnections.blogspot.com/ A blog about transport projects in London Thanks for the update. MaxB |
Mitcham Eastfields
On Mon, 19 May 2008 05:07:20 -0700 (PDT), Mr Thant
wrote: On 19 May, 12:48, Paul Corfield wrote: 1 June 2008 Yes, announced on the FCC website: http://www.firstcapitalconnect.co.uk...iCmsPageId=331 I posted a comment on your site about the date a week or so ago. It certainly wasn't ready to open when I visited on Saturday: http://londonconnections.blogspot.co...eks-to-go.html I have also seen that earlier today. Don't know how you manage to keep abreast of everything. -- Paul C Admits to working for London Underground! |
Mitcham Eastfields
"Mr Thant" wrote in message ... On 19 May, 12:48, Paul Corfield wrote: 1 June 2008 Yes, announced on the FCC website: http://www.firstcapitalconnect.co.uk...iCmsPageId=331 It certainly wasn't ready to open when I visited on Saturday: http://londonconnections.blogspot.co...eks-to-go.html U Has there ever been a time in London when a station was opened for revenue service, even though it was clearly unready for it? It would not surprise me to find out that this happened several times. |
Mitcham Eastfields
In message , at
16:30:06 on Mon, 19 May 2008, Tom Anderson remarked: Has there ever been a time in London when a station was opened for revenue service, even though it was clearly unready for it? The new St Pancras? I've been biting my lip all day. -- Roland Perry |
Mitcham Eastfields
Mr Thant wrote:
On 19 May, 12:48, Paul Corfield wrote: 1 June 2008 Yes, announced on the FCC website: http://www.firstcapitalconnect.co.uk...iCmsPageId=331 It certainly wasn't ready to open when I visited on Saturday: http://londonconnections.blogspot.co...eks-to-go.html I was there on Monday. I'm not sure why the footbridge, complete with a MIP lift on each side, is there at all. |
Mitcham Eastfields
"John Rowland" wrote in message
... Mr Thant wrote: On 19 May, 12:48, Paul Corfield wrote: 1 June 2008 Yes, announced on the FCC website: http://www.firstcapitalconnect.co.uk...iCmsPageId=331 It certainly wasn't ready to open when I visited on Saturday: http://londonconnections.blogspot.co...eks-to-go.html I was there on Monday. I'm not sure why the footbridge, complete with a MIP lift on each side, is there at all. Does it just connect the station or is it for general pedestrian use? Currently, the frequent closing of the crossing in such a built up area causes much inconvenience (it doesn't help the road traffic much of course!). Lifts do seem a bit over the top, but hey, it's only money! MaxB |
Mitcham Eastfields
On 20 May, 03:16, "John Rowland"
wrote: I was there on Monday. I'm not sure why the footbridge, complete with a MIP lift on each side, is there at all. Think about when the barriers are most likely to be closed. Building it without a footbridge would make whoever designed Shepherd's Bush seem like a genius. U -- http://londonconnections.blogspot.com/ A blog about transport projects in London |
Mitcham Eastfields
"John Rowland" wrote in message ... Mr Thant wrote: On 19 May, 12:48, Paul Corfield wrote: 1 June 2008 Yes, announced on the FCC website: http://www.firstcapitalconnect.co.uk...iCmsPageId=331 It certainly wasn't ready to open when I visited on Saturday: http://londonconnections.blogspot.co...eks-to-go.html I was there on Monday. I'm not sure why the footbridge, complete with a MIP lift on each side, is there at all. If you go back a couple of years to the high profile incident at Elsenham, when two girls were killed at a LC between the ticket office and the train they needed, I suspect all new stations with adjacent LCs will get footbridges. What is unusual here is that the footbridge is onto the down platform and separated from the up platform due to the staggered layout, (which is to reduce the time the barriers are closed to traffic). I suspect many pax will wait at the road barriers though if they've just got off a train. The lifts are then apparently compulsory with a new footbridge, cos of the DDA, although I'm sure there are exceptions... Paul S |
Mitcham Eastfields
John Rowland wrote:
Mr Thant wrote: On 19 May, 12:48, Paul Corfield wrote: 1 June 2008 Yes, announced on the FCC website: http://www.firstcapitalconnect.co.uk...iCmsPageId=331 It certainly wasn't ready to open when I visited on Saturday: http://londonconnections.blogspot.co...eks-to-go.html I was there on Monday. I'm not sure why the footbridge, complete with a MIP lift on each side, is there at all. I'm pretty sure yesterday at Clapham Junction that Mitcham Eastfields was announced as a stopping point for the Southern trains... -- Paul |
Mitcham Eastfields
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 01:08:41AM -0700, Mr Thant wrote:
On 20 May, 03:16, "John Rowland" I was there on Monday. I'm not sure why the footbridge, complete with a MIP lift on each side, is there at all. Think about when the barriers are most likely to be closed. Building it without a footbridge would make whoever designed Shepherd's Bush seem like a genius. The barriers are most likely to be down when a train is very near the station. By which time you will already be at the station if you have any sense, so it's obviously not meant to help people catch their trains :-) On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:22:15AM +0100, Paul Scott wrote: If you go back a couple of years to the high profile incident at Elsenham, when two girls were killed at a LC between the ticket office and the train they needed, I suspect all new stations with adjacent LCs will get footbridges. Yay, let's spend vast sums of money to protect the stupid from themselves. What is unusual here is that the footbridge is onto the down platform and separated from the up platform due to the staggered layout, Why not have the bridge go diagonally across the level crossing so that it really does link the two platforms? -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice The Law of Daves: in any gathering of technical people, the number of Daves will be greater than the number of women. |
Mitcham Eastfields
On 21 May, 11:58, David Cantrell wrote:
The barriers are most likely to be down when a train is very near the station. *By which time you will already be at the station if you have any sense, so it's obviously not meant to help people catch their trains :-) It's a full barrier crossing, so the gates come down long before the train arrives. I believe the crossing has to be visually declared clear, and if it isn't, the train needs to have time to stop. So it's going to be closed for a couple of minutes before your train is due. Add in the possibility of another train coming the other way closing the crossing even earlier, and it's clearly possible to be there in plenty of time and still miss your train. Why not have the bridge go diagonally across the level crossing so that it really does link the two platforms? Because that would need an enormous bridge, and would get in the way of the crossing barriers. The bridge they've installed is a standard design identical to the one at Greenhithe. U -- http://londonconnections.blogspot.com/ A blog about transport projects in London |
Mitcham Eastfields
Mr Thant wrote:
On 21 May, 11:58, David Cantrell wrote: The barriers are most likely to be down when a train is very near the station. By which time you will already be at the station if you have any sense, so it's obviously not meant to help people catch their trains :-) It's a full barrier crossing, so the gates come down long before the train arrives. I believe the crossing has to be visually declared clear, and if it isn't, the train needs to have time to stop. So it's going to be closed for a couple of minutes before your train is due. Add in the possibility of another train coming the other way closing the crossing even earlier, and it's clearly possible to be there in plenty of time and still miss your train. Why not have the bridge go diagonally across the level crossing so that it really does link the two platforms? Because that would need an enormous bridge, and would get in the way of the crossing barriers. The bridge they've installed is a standard design identical to the one at Greenhithe. (As I'm sure you know!) the whole station is a standard design, like - if not identical to - Greenhithe. And Corby. -- Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK |
Mitcham Eastfields
On May 19, 3:22*pm, wrote:
Has there ever been a time in London when a station was opened for revenue service, even though it was clearly unready for it? It would not surprise me to find out that this happened several times. St Paul's Thameslink? That opened before they'd covered the cut-and- cover tunnel in which the final station was to be... And what about the Heathrow Express temporary station? That was open for less than a year IIRC... |
Mitcham Eastfields
In message
, at 12:31:58 on Wed, 21 May 2008, Rupert Candy remarked: And what about the Heathrow Express temporary station? That was open for less than a year IIRC... But that was *intended* to be temporary. -- Roland Perry |
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