I finally took a trip on the Epping-Ongar Railway today. All in all quite a
pleasant experience.

When passing the old Blake Hall station I noticed there seemed to be a new
short platform in place - is the EOR planning to reactivate the station, is
the owner of the building after a private halt or is this just decoration?

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Recliner wrote:

When passing the old Blake Hall station I noticed there seemed to be a
new
short platform in place - is the EOR planning to reactivate the station,
is
the owner of the building after a private halt or is this just
decoration?

The house owner also happens to be the owner of the whole EOR (did you
notice some of his vintage LT buses parked nearby?), so I guess he's free
to have his own private station on his train set.

I didn't spot the buses but we passed the station quite quickly and on the
return journey it was on the corridor side.

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"Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote:
Recliner wrote:

When passing the old Blake Hall station I noticed there seemed to be a
new
short platform in place - is the EOR planning to reactivate the station,
is
the owner of the building after a private halt or is this just
decoration?

The house owner also happens to be the owner of the whole EOR (did you
notice some of his vintage LT buses parked nearby?), so I guess he's free
to have his own private station on his train set.

I didn't spot the buses but we passed the station quite quickly and on the
return journey it was on the corridor side.

He's also building a new siding nearby. Perhaps that's where he plans to
stable his most interesting stock?

If you used the free vintage bus shuttle from Epping station, those are
his, too. If you travelled behind either 4953 Pitchford Hall or GWR Large
Prairie No. 4141, he owns those as well:
http://www.rail.co.uk/rail-news/2012...ongar-railway/

On 26/08/2013 19:56, Recliner wrote:
"Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote:
I finally took a trip on the Epping-Ongar Railway today. All in all quite a
pleasant experience.

When passing the old Blake Hall station I noticed there seemed to be a new
short platform in place - is the EOR planning to reactivate the station, is
the owner of the building after a private halt or is this just decoration?

The house owner also happens to be the owner of the whole EOR (did you
notice some of his vintage LT buses parked nearby?), so I guess he's free
to have his own private station on his train set.


It must be nice to have your own station. Do you still have to tap in
and tap out?

This also reminds me of some apartment buildings where one or two
residents might have access to the lift, literally within their own flat.

" wrote:
On 26/08/2013 19:56, Recliner wrote:
"Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote:
I finally took a trip on the Epping-Ongar Railway today. All in all quite a
pleasant experience.

When passing the old Blake Hall station I noticed there seemed to be a new
short platform in place - is the EOR planning to reactivate the station, is
the owner of the building after a private halt or is this just decoration?

The house owner also happens to be the owner of the whole EOR (did you
notice some of his vintage LT buses parked nearby?), so I guess he's free
to have his own private station on his train set.


It must be nice to have your own station. Do you still have to tap in and tap out?

This also reminds me of some apartment buildings where one or two
residents might have access to the lift, literally within their own flat.

Lots of CEOs have private lifts from their underground car parks so they
can avoid meeting not just the public, but even their own minions on the
way up to the executive suite.

On a related note, I'm always intrigued by hotel lifts with non-stop
floors, such as the mysterious fifth floor of the Yanggakdo hotel in
Pyongyang.
http://www.businessinsider.com/yangg...or-2013-4?op=1

On 2013-08-26 22:56:49 +0000, Recliner said:

On a related note, I'm always intrigued by hotel lifts with non-stop
floors, such as the mysterious fifth floor of the Yanggakdo hotel in
Pyongyang.

How strange - i've just been reading about a notorious housing project
in the US where the lifts were deliberately set to bypass floors
(skip/stop) to encourage people to mingle in the stairwells/galleries
etc. What happened is that a lot of people got mugged instead.

E.

On 2013\08\26 23:56, Recliner wrote:

Lots of CEOs have private lifts from their underground car parks so they
can avoid meeting not just the public, but even their own minions on the
way up to the executive suite.

Really? That seems rather expensive, compared to just programming the
lifts to stop nowhere else when going to or from the top floor, and
possibly having a back door that is only used in the basement.

In message , at 00:58:16 on
Tue, 27 Aug 2013, Basil Jet remarked:
Lots of CEOs have private lifts from their underground car parks so they
can avoid meeting not just the public, but even their own minions on the
way up to the executive suite.

Really? That seems rather expensive, compared to just programming the
lifts to stop nowhere else when going to or from the top floor, and
possibly having a back door that is only used in the basement.

There's also the time element. How long would the CEO have to wait on
the top floor for a lift to arrive? And how could you ensure it was
empty.
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Roland Perry

On 2013\08\27 07:06, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 00:58:16 on
Tue, 27 Aug 2013, Basil Jet remarked:
Lots of CEOs have private lifts from their underground car parks so they
can avoid meeting not just the public, but even their own minions on the
way up to the executive suite.

Really? That seems rather expensive, compared to just programming the
lifts to stop nowhere else when going to or from the top floor, and
possibly having a back door that is only used in the basement.

There's also the time element. How long would the CEO have to wait on
the top floor for a lift to arrive? And how could you ensure it was empty.

These can be achieved by having a separate lift above the main one in
the same shaft, and having a few steps up to the directors entrance in
the basement, and having a car sensor in the directors parking spot.
Still waaaaaay cheaper than the director having his own lift shaft
sitting empty all day through the entire building.

Basil Jet wrote:
On 2013\08\27 07:06, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 00:58:16 on
Tue, 27 Aug 2013, Basil Jet remarked:
Lots of CEOs have private lifts from their underground car parks so they
can avoid meeting not just the public, but even their own minions on the
way up to the executive suite.

Really? That seems rather expensive, compared to just programming the
lifts to stop nowhere else when going to or from the top floor, and
possibly having a back door that is only used in the basement.

There's also the time element. How long would the CEO have to wait on
the top floor for a lift to arrive? And how could you ensure it was empty.

These can be achieved by having a separate lift above the main one in the
same shaft, and having a few steps up to the directors entrance in the
basement, and having a car sensor in the directors parking spot. Still
waaaaaay cheaper than the director having his own lift shaft sitting
empty all day through the entire building.

Presumably the private lift would be for the use of all the inhabitants of
the executive suite, and perhaps some of their visitors, and not just the
CEO.