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![]() Apparently loads of enthusiasts knew in advance... us Usenauts seem to be out of the loop! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSts1YN3MPc |
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On 23/06/2017 12:29, Basil Jet wrote:
Apparently loads of enthusiasts knew in advance... us Usenauts seem to be out of the loop! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSts1YN3MPc Maybe it was all over the Cambridge newsgroups? |
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On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 12:29:42 +0100
Basil Jet wrote: Apparently loads of enthusiasts knew in advance... us Usenauts seem to be out of the loop! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSts1YN3MPc I'd love to know what blind ******* designed the ugly front end. It looks like a disfigured duck. -- Spud |
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In message , at 13:14:35 on Fri, 23 Jun
2017, Someone Somewhere remarked: Apparently loads of enthusiasts knew in advance... us Usenauts seem to be out of the loop! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSts1YN3MPc Maybe it was all over the Cambridge newsgroups? No, but I did see something a couple of days ago online announcing this "first service". -- Roland Perry |
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Basil Jet wrote:
Apparently loads of enthusiasts knew in advance... us Usenauts seem to be out of the loop! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSts1YN3MPc I see that, as expected, the seats are described as harder than in the old trains they're replacing, and they seem to be mainly longitudinal, as with other TfL trains; the early pictures of the interior usually featured the few transverse seats. At least the aircon works. |
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On 2017\06\23 14:00, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 13:14:35 on Fri, 23 Jun 2017, Someone Somewhere remarked: Apparently loads of enthusiasts knew in advance... us Usenauts seem to be out of the loop! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSts1YN3MPc Maybe it was all over the Cambridge newsgroups? No, but I did see something a couple of days ago online announcing this "first service". I suppose you were too busy using news:uk.transport.london to discuss Ely minicab licensing to forward the information there? |
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On 23.06.17 12:29, Basil Jet wrote:
Apparently loads of enthusiasts knew in advance... us Usenauts seem to be out of the loop! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSts1YN3MPc Can we thus assume that Phase I of Crossrail service has started, with the first 345 wheels turning in anger? |
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-septe mber.org, at 19:54:35 on Fri, 23 Jun 2017, Recliner remarked: Can we thus assume that Phase I of Crossrail service has started, with the first 345 wheels turning in anger? Well, sort of. They're not using the Elizabeth line branding yet, as the current route is no different to what it was before the new trains were introduced, though there's been lots of trackwork. You could have done exactly the same trip long ago. And, this isn't even the first Crossrail track to be used: the Stockley Flyover has that claim to fame. http://www.crossrail.co.uk/news/articles/major-milestone-reached-in-the-construction-of-stockley-flyover So Heathrow Connect's use of the Stockley Flyover from the end of 2014 could be said to be the first phase of Crossrail to have been brought into use. And the 345s aren't even phase 2; the Acton diveunder probably gets that award: https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/201...on-dive-under/ So this latest development might be best described as the third phase of Crossrail to come into use (unless I've missed out any others!). They've been doing trackwork south of Shenfield station, and it's possible that some new movements, which that permits, are in service. But I've not been on site. -- Roland Perry |
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