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Forum: London Transport December 4th 12, 03:34 PM
Replies: 66
Views: 12,954
Posted By Paul Rigg[_4_]
Aldwych / Strand Underground

I have wondered why they don't do up Covent Garden station so its original
tiles / signs are all visible in Leslie Gren style.

That would make a better "museum" station and would tie in with the LT...
Forum: London Transport December 4th 12, 01:42 PM
Replies: 66
Views: 12,954
Posted By Paul Rigg[_4_]
Aldwych / Strand Underground

"Brian Watson" wrote in message
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"Paul Rigg" wrote in message
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In...
Forum: London Transport December 3rd 12, 02:55 PM
Replies: 66
Views: 12,954
Posted By Paul Rigg[_4_]
Aldwych / Strand Underground

In the second picture the Station Closed signs partly obscure the letters "A
N"


S T R A N D - original name of station
Forum: London Transport October 16th 12, 11:47 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 16,937
Posted By Paul Rigg[_4_]
Kings Cross platform 0

Well I used both Prague HL N and Ceske Budjevice last week and they seem to
have a system of numbering both faces of the platform with the same number
to make sure that you go up the correct subway...
Forum: London Transport October 3rd 12, 03:43 PM
Replies: 38
Views: 16,937
Posted By Paul Rigg[_4_]
Kings Cross platform 0

Apart from at Euston where the platforms are now nearer Euston Road than
milepost 0 and so are regarded as being at a negative chainage.
Forum: London Transport October 1st 12, 03:43 PM
Replies: 38
Views: 16,937
Posted By Paul Rigg[_4_]
Kings Cross platform 0

Huddersfield has platforms numbered 1 2 4 5 6 and 8.

Not sure what happened to 3 and 7 though perhaps someone will come along to
tell us.


The oddest one I've seen (a bit OT this) was Newark...
Forum: London Transport February 27th 12, 10:36 AM
Replies: 46
Views: 10,891
Posted By Paul Rigg[_4_]
London Bridge - Paddington by cab

I cant see the beginning of this thread for some reason but what's wrong
with carrying on to Charing Cross (or changing at London Bridge into a
Charing Cross train) and then using the Bakerloo (or...
Forum: London Transport February 2nd 12, 03:06 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,626
Posted By Paul Rigg[_4_]
Connaught Tunnel for Crossrail or not?

Crossrail will now place cofferdams in the Connaught Passage
between the Victoria and Royal Albert Docks, pump out the water
and create a dry construction site allowing workers to dig down
to the...
Forum: London Transport January 25th 12, 04:29 PM
Replies: 64
Views: 16,052
Posted By Paul Rigg[_4_]
Post Office Railway - mothballed?

Will it breech the tunnels?


There was certainly a comment a few years ago that crossrail would be a lot
more expensive if it didnt breach the tunnels . Presumably they are going
ahead with the...
Forum: London Transport January 23rd 12, 04:00 PM
Replies: 1,201
Views: 200,801
Posted By Paul Rigg[_4_]
Stating prices at retail inclusive of taxes (was: E-ZPass, was CharlieCards v.v. Oyster (and Octopus?))

"Adam H. Kerman" wrote in message ...

Neil Williams wrote:
On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:14:58 -0700, Robert Neville ...
Forum: London Transport January 9th 12, 04:46 PM
Replies: 643
Views: 97,593
Posted By Paul Rigg[_4_]
Complete (almost) Shutdown of Berlin Train System - could it happen here...??


Is that Checkpoint Charlie? Incidentally, I see there's a mini version
of the old US border post still there, with actors posing as US guards,
who'll pose in pics with tourists for a fee. But...
Forum: London Transport January 6th 12, 09:57 AM
Replies: 643
Views: 97,593
Posted By Paul Rigg[_4_]
Complete (almost) Shutdown of Berlin Train System - could it happen here...??

I think his point was, and I think he is right, that the DDR authorities
allowed anyone to cross the wall who was either not one of their own
nationals or a national of another country (ie the...
Forum: London Transport January 6th 12, 09:26 AM
Replies: 643
Views: 97,593
Posted By Paul Rigg[_4_]
Complete (almost) Shutdown of Berlin Train System - could it happen here...??

Maybe you are confusing various parts of Berlin? Köpenick is in the
East, Funkturm in the West.

I'm sorry I ,meant the Fernhesturm. I don't think the Funkturm has a cafe
.. As a good radio...
Forum: London Transport January 4th 12, 01:20 PM
Replies: 643
Views: 97,593
Posted By Paul Rigg[_4_]
Complete (almost) Shutdown of Berlin Train System - could it happen here...??

Before November 1989? I'm astonished.

Definitely. It was about August 1989. No sign of wall coming down at all.
They had DDR 40 in lights on a property in Alexanderplatz. Hard to believe
now...
Forum: London Transport January 4th 12, 10:28 AM
Replies: 643
Views: 97,593
Posted By Paul Rigg[_4_]
Complete (almost) Shutdown of Berlin Train System - could it happen here...??

I am quite sure that Friedrichstraße was the only East Berlin S-Bahn
station where one could buy S-Bahn tickets towards West Berlin in DM.
And only in the "non-socialist currency" area, i.e. the area...
Forum: London Transport January 4th 12, 10:02 AM
Replies: 643
Views: 97,593
Posted By Paul Rigg[_4_]
Complete (almost) Shutdown of Berlin Train System - could it happen here...??

Meanwhile passengers waiting to
board the train on the platform had to wait, all whom would have been
people who'd arrived by U-Bahn or S-Bahn from West Berlin.

Not quite . When I was there in 1989...
Forum: London Transport January 3rd 12, 01:16 PM
Replies: 643
Views: 97,593
Posted By Paul Rigg[_4_]
Complete (almost) Shutdown of Berlin Train System - could it happen here...??

I think the long distance platform at Friedrichstraße was also
already open to West Berlin, but I am not sure of that.


The long distance platforms at Friedrichstrasse were available only to West...
Forum: London Transport December 14th 11, 10:08 AM
Replies: 47
Views: 10,232
Posted By Paul Rigg[_4_]
Croxley Rail Link plan approved by Government

"allantracy" wrote in message
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I know all the Communists of the North that frequent here will deny
it.

But, this...
Forum: London Transport November 4th 11, 04:11 PM
Replies: 105
Views: 21,504
Posted By Paul Rigg[_4_]
London Hub proposal published by Halcrow/Foster+Partners

What's not to like? :-)


Actually what's not to like is that after Cross Rail, Overground extensions,
The Olympics, Thameslink 2000 (!) HS1 HS2 etc. etc. it will be yet another
excuse to...
Forum: London Transport November 4th 11, 04:07 PM
Replies: 105
Views: 21,504
Posted By Paul Rigg[_4_]
London Hub proposal published by Halcrow/Foster+Partners

If you're going to be spending billions on interconnecting main line
railways in London it might be better spent on tunnels between the
existing terminii, a bit like the Germans have done in...
Forum: London Transport July 18th 11, 10:53 AM
Replies: 23
Views: 6,663
Posted By Paul Rigg[_4_]
Whither Thameslink to Cambridge?

Does it also mean that the big tube down to Moorgate would also have to be
used at weekends?

With a handy interchange at Highbury and Islington to the Overground lines I
would have thought it...
Forum: London Transport July 12th 11, 02:58 PM
Replies: 129
Views: 22,342
Posted By Paul Rigg[_4_]
Thank you London Underground

"It might be a bit off topic but if you wanted to go from Hammersmith to
Euston why didn't you use the Hammersmith and City Line to Euston Square?

Just a thought
Forum: London Transport June 30th 11, 04:12 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 5,644
Posted By Paul Rigg[_4_]
Yet another person hit by a train at Southall

"Basil Jet" wrote in message
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On 2011\06\30 09:00, SB wrote:

There is something seriously wrong with any ethnic community that
suffers so many...
Forum: London Transport June 16th 11, 11:33 AM
Replies: 48
Views: 10,315
Posted By Paul Rigg[_4_]
DLR Canning Town Stratford International - still not opened ...

I would have thought any Olympic-goers from Fenchurch St would just be
expected to use the West Ham gateway station.

What's wrong with Tower Hill, then a quick change at Mile End? It must be...
Forum: London Transport March 21st 11, 10:52 AM
Replies: 54
Views: 12,441
Posted By Paul Rigg[_4_]
East London Line extension to Highbury & Islington open today


Is there now a case for reinstaing the Great Northern service to
Moorgate at evenings/weekends? Highbury is a far easier connection to
the tube than Kings Cross, and with connections now to...
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