Mark Goodge wrote

arrival hadn't occurred to me. But, given that I do most of my
supermarket shopping on the way home from work (by car), it's not
unreasonable for rail commuters to want to be able to do the same
thing when arriving home by train. The obvious locations, though, for
station supermarkets would be commuter stations at the "home" end of
the route, rather than the city centre destination stations.

When I worked in Moorgate and commuted from SWT Surrey I sometimes
shopped in a nearby supermarket (then Safeways) at lunchtime or before
going home and sometimes stopped off at Clapham Junction on the way
home to visit Asda or Lidl. No M&S nearby then, but even if there had
been there wasn't much there that was worth the higher price. Also,
most SWT stations beyond Surbiton are distant from their town so 'home
end' supermarkets would have little daytime trade.

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Mike D

On Mon, 2 Feb 2009 22:57:18 -0000, "Andrew Heenan"
wrote:

"Jamie Thompson" wrote ...
Bring back the eastern bore, then have the tracks running primarily
diagonally from the mouths to the platforms. Perhaps move some of the
pointwork to the maiden lane opening. I guess if you wanted to be
drastic...you could even contemplate opening up some of the gasworks
tunnels.

When they open the 'new' platform on the taxi road, are they still planning
to call it "Platform Y", or have they come to their senses and agreed to
renumber the existing platforms.

I think there was a fear of confusing the signals folk - apparently they
could re-sign the platforms, but they'd run out of dymolabels to sort out
the signals diagrams ...

... or something equally stupid, unbelievable and Totally British Rail.

Isn't it the cost and complication of altering the 'theatre' signal
route indicators?

Andrew



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Peter Lawrence

"Peter Lawrence" wrote :
When they open the 'new' platform on the taxi road, are they still
planning
to call it "Platform Y", or have they come to their senses and agreed to
renumber the existing platforms.
I think there was a fear of confusing the signals folk - apparently they
could re-sign the platforms, but they'd run out of dymolabels to sort out
the signals diagrams ...
... or something equally stupid, unbelievable and Totally British Rail.
Isn't it the cost and complication of altering the 'theatre' signal
route indicators?

Quite conceiveably; though why that would affect the 'public' signage, with
all the distress and confusion that will entail for tourists and 'first
timers', is another matter.

The public will insist on getting in the way of running a smooth railway,
won't they?

;o)

In article , (Roland
Perry) wrote:

In message , at
04:39:51 on Tue, 3 Feb 2009, remarked:
The hotel stays.

Sort of. Doesn't the ground floor in effect become part of the station?

Doesn't the hotel building rather obviously have to "stay" for that
to happen?

Yes, I was commenting on use rather than existence.

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Colin Rosenstiel