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Forum: London Transport January 5th 14, 03:59 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 2,163
Posted By [email protected]
Exit 4 Bank Station

This exit (which comes out on the Cornhill side of the Royal Exchange) seems to have been closed for ages now, at least a year I would guess.

Does anyone know what's happening with it?

Patrick
Forum: London Transport October 19th 07, 10:02 AM
Replies: 46
Views: 7,219
Posted By [email protected]
What is the point of Cannon Street (National Rail) Station?

On 19 Oct, 09:29, "R.C. Payne" wrote:
Though there has been a bridge there since something like 800AD, if you
have a look at London Bridge (the bridge) in the rush hour, you...
Forum: London Transport October 19th 07, 10:01 AM
Replies: 46
Views: 7,219
Posted By [email protected]
What is the point of Cannon Street (National Rail) Station?

On 18 Oct, 23:03, MIG wrote:
London Bridge is only significant because so many trains go there or
through there. Nearly everyone arriving there by train...
Forum: London Transport October 10th 07, 01:28 PM
Replies: 28
Views: 7,679
Posted By [email protected]
Cannon Street / Moorgate tunnel?

Speaking of Cannon Street, does anyone know exactly what the point of
the current refurbishment is? The ticket office area was refurbished
only a few years ago, and it seems pretty stupid to have...
Forum: London Transport October 10th 07, 01:21 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 4,616
Posted By [email protected]
Thameslink 2000 question

On 10 Oct, 11:18, wrote:
When I regularly travelled on that route, the problem used to mainly
be dwell times at Blackfriars, and access to London Bridge, which I
believe is just...
Forum: London Transport October 10th 07, 01:17 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 2,695
Posted By [email protected]
ELL construction work

On 10 Oct, 12:14, MIG wrote:
The existing ELL platform was a through platform until relatively
recently (if not used as such). I've noticed in the last couple of
...
Forum: London Transport September 14th 07, 10:35 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 1,025
Posted By [email protected]
East London Line extension construction at Silwood

Coming home on the train the other day, I noticed a lot of work
beginning already on construction of the East London Line extension at
Silwood.

My question is, the construction I noted was all by...
Forum: London Transport May 25th 07, 04:21 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 2,126
Posted By [email protected]
SWT Vs Southern ticket machines..

On 23 May, 18:11, Mystery Flyer wrote:

And secondly how come SWT machines wont sell me a ticket for tomorrow
and Southern will. Heck the Southern will even sell me a...
Forum: London Transport April 2nd 07, 01:41 PM
Replies: 25
Views: 4,402
Posted By [email protected]
Bus destination blinds - how are they decided?

For as long as I've been taking it (i.e. at least 7 years), the 47 has
shown a destination of "Catford Bus Garage". Today I noticed that the
new destination blinds now say "Bellingham" in large...
Forum: London Transport March 29th 07, 12:29 PM
Replies: 52
Views: 10,428
Posted By [email protected]
0207 222 1234

On Mar 29, 12:12 am, Michael Hoffman wrote:
Steve Fitzgerald wrote:
Everybody who rings numbers locally in London can just dial the last 8
digits of the 'full'...
Forum: London Transport March 19th 07, 12:11 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 3,835
Posted By [email protected]
Tube dissected

On 19 Mar, 11:18, "Boltar" wrote:
Binning the finsbury park to east finchley track I think has to rate
as one of the dumbest decisions in the history of london...
Forum: London Transport March 16th 07, 12:32 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 2,578
Posted By [email protected]
ELL/NLL interchange

On 16 Mar, 13:27, "
wrote:
On 16 Mar, 12:38, "Paul Scott" wrote:

Am I...
Forum: London Transport February 20th 07, 12:22 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 3,229
Posted By [email protected]
Petition against C-Charge for Blackwall Tunnel

On 20 Feb, 11:43, "Tom Page" wrote:
On 20 Feb, 10:34, Dave A wrote:

Mark F wrote:
Please sign my petition to urge the government to stop...
Forum: London Transport January 30th 07, 10:43 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 4,119
Posted By [email protected]
Southeastern Railway staving off Oyster PAYG

On 30 Jan, 10:08, "Paul Scott" wrote:
It all looks
quite straightforward if you think only of a journey from Kent to a zonal
destination, where anti-fraud...
Forum: London Transport January 25th 07, 03:13 PM
Replies: 42
Views: 6,254
Posted By [email protected]
Opposition to the West London Tram steps up

On 25 Jan, 11:27, "Richard J." wrote:
The Labour deputy leader on the council was reported as
saying "This [the tram] is something which has been very unpopular...
Forum: London Transport January 24th 07, 12:48 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 5,591
Posted By [email protected]
Northern Line trains terminating at Euston (southbound Bank branch)

Just taken a trip from Euston to London Bridge, and at Euston two
trains were showing on the indicator as terminating at Euston (with a
through train to Morden in between them). I've never seen this...
Forum: London Transport January 24th 07, 12:46 PM
Replies: 42
Views: 6,254
Posted By [email protected]
Opposition to the West London Tram steps up

On 24 Jan, 12:13, wrote:
Ah well, there's a surprise. The 3 councils concerned are all
Conservative controlled. Obviously there's been NO co-ordination there,
and NO...
Forum: London Transport January 2nd 07, 08:04 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 2,246
Posted By [email protected]
Happy New Year... & thanks for getting me there and back!

Mizter T wrote:
It's all, IMO, a welcome change from the old negative official attitude
that abounded during NYE in London.

Indeed. I was at a party in Islington, got to Angel station at...
Forum: London Transport December 20th 06, 09:40 AM
Replies: 26
Views: 4,759
Posted By [email protected]
Why don't tube staff enforce the routing systems in stations?

Dave Plumb wrote:
I don't blame staff for not enforcing this, they're at a high enough risk
of being assaulted in that line of work without provoking it. Some simple
turnstiles would probably...
Forum: London Transport December 15th 06, 01:09 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 4,759
Posted By [email protected]
Why don't tube staff enforce the routing systems in stations?

Jack Taylor wrote:
wrote:

Which leads me to the question in the thread header: why don't tube
staff enforce the one way systems properly?

Probably because it...
Forum: London Transport December 15th 06, 08:31 AM
Replies: 26
Views: 4,759
Posted By [email protected]
Why don't tube staff enforce the routing systems in stations?

Last night at about 1830 I was at Tottenham Court Road. Of the three
escalators which lead up to the ticket hall, two were coming down and
only one was going up, which is in itself unusual. This...
Forum: London Transport December 14th 06, 03:37 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 2,759
Posted By [email protected]
Oyster + Barclaycard (or Barclays Connect) from mid-2007

Mizter T wrote:
One thing that I haven't seen mentioned here is that some London
Boroughs already issue combination smartcards with an integrated Oyster
function [1] [2] [3] [4]. I'm not sure...
Forum: London Transport December 8th 06, 01:21 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 5,110
Posted By [email protected]
Disused stations and tunnels on the Tube

umpston wrote:
alex_t wrote:
I wonder, is there any official way to see some closed stations like
Aldwych or destroyed ones like British Museum? (for the purpose of
non-commercial...
Forum: London Transport November 16th 06, 09:08 AM
Replies: 0
Views: 848
Posted By [email protected]
One way system at London Bridge

About four years ago, a one way system was imposed at London Bridge
mainline station. During peak times, you could only enter and exit at
Platform 8 in the mornings and evenings respectively. This...
Forum: London Transport November 16th 06, 08:40 AM
Replies: 25
Views: 4,572
Posted By [email protected]
The first bow-string arch bridge in Britain to carry a railway

Peter Masson wrote:
"John Rowland" wrote in message
...

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