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On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 at 21:24:31, Peter Smyth
wrote: The conductor is correct. The request/compulsory stop distinction only applies to people getting on, if you want to get off you have to ring the bell at any stop. Peter Smyth Since when? I've never heard *that* one...... -- Annabel Smyth http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/index.html Website updated 8 March 2004 |
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"MetroGnome" wrote in message news:79vkc.1285$7S2.126@newsfe1-win...
"John Rowland" wrote: I wondered about the roundels in the station. Did all tram stops have a plethora of roundels? No - just the two sub-surface stations. These roundels were situated at two 2 sub surface? Where was the other one? B2003 |
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Boltar wrote:
2 sub surface? Where was the other one? B2003 The two were (I think) at Holborn and Aldwych -- David |
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![]() "Boltar" wrote in message om... "MetroGnome" wrote in message news:79vkc.1285$7S2.126@newsfe1-win... "John Rowland" wrote: I wondered about the roundels in the station. Did all tram stops have a plethora of roundels? No - just the two sub-surface stations. These roundels were situated at two 2 sub surface? Where was the other one? B2003 If you were to go past the first tram stop (near Holborn) and go as far along as possible you come to the ramp where the cars have taken over the other half of the tunnel. Under that ramp there is a small entry on each side where you can squeeze thru to find yourself between the walls of the tram tunnel and the newer road tunnel (about a metre wide). There you can still see the advertising boards and the remains of a roundel circle at what was the Aldwych stop. Take a look at the various Kingsway websites and someone will have pics of this area. Obviously you can work it out when aboveground cos you can see the road ramp exit. http://www.starfury.demon.co.uk/uground/ has the pics I mean. HTH, Nick P |
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On Sat, 1 May 2004 12:36:09 +0100, Annabel Smyth
wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 at 21:24:31, Peter Smyth wrote: The conductor is correct. The request/compulsory stop distinction only applies to people getting on, if you want to get off you have to ring the bell at any stop. Peter Smyth Since when? I've never heard *that* one...... It seems to have sneaked in sometime in the last ten years or so! I don't think the TfL website is entirely clear. It states, in describing the types of bus stop 'Compulsory Buses will automatically stop, unless they are full, except Night Buses -' but this is subtly under a 'boarding' heading. Also 'When you want to get off the bus ring the bell once, and well in advance to let the driver know..' It would help if it said this applied to all types of stop. (In fact it doesn't even explain that the bus will only stop to let you off at a bus stop sign!) I wonder if bus companies outside London use the same rules? -- Peter Lawrence |
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Peter Lawrence:
the TfL website ... states, in describing the types of bus stop 'Compulsory Buses will automatically stop, unless they are full, except Night Buses -' but this is subtly under a 'boarding' heading. ... I wonder if bus companies outside London use the same rules? Do British bus companies outside London generally *have* the distinction between request and compulsory stops? It doesn't exist on any bus system in North America that I know about, and likewise for continental Europe. -- Mark Brader | "It can be amusing, even if painful, to watch the Toronto | ethnocentrism of those who are convinced their | local standards are universal." -- Tom Chapin |
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In article , Boltar
writes Just beyond you have the old station and here for some reason a thin layer of concrete (or something like it) has been poured over the tracks. Wild speculation: I wonder if there's been any movie filming done down there? If so, it might be as a safety measure or to make it esy to lay a camera track. offI fell asleep watching 'the Russia House' on ITV1 last night, but not before I noticed the large panes of glass/perspex fitted over the outside of the church (there's a lot of plot development at the top of an open, onion-dome bell tower). My guess is that it was because of wind blowing through, making dialogue impossible to record properly (or perhaps because just to keep cast + crew warm. It was probably freezing up there). I never noticed it in the cinema, but after being graded for TV, the reflections were clearly obvious, especially if the camera tracked or panned quickly. /off Movie productions go to amazing lengths, for example all the Minis used underground in the remake of the Italian Job were actually electric, to comply with the authorities' requirements. "I said charge it, not blow the bloody battery up!" Regards, Simonm. -- simonm|at|muircom|dot|demon|.|c|oh|dot|u|kay SIMON MUIR, UK INDEPENDENCE PARTY, BRISTOL www.ukip.org EUROPEANS AGAINST THE EU www.members.aol.com/eurofaq GT250A'76 R80/RT'86 110CSW TD'88 www.kc3ltd.co.uk/profile/eurofollie/ |
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On Sun, 02 May 2004 09:03:42 GMT, SpamTrapSeeSig
wrote: In article , Boltar writes Just beyond you have the old station and here for some reason a thin layer of concrete (or something like it) has been poured over the tracks. Wild speculation: I wonder if there's been any movie filming done down there? If so, it might be as a safety measure or to make it esy to lay a camera track. The was a scene in Stephen Poliakoff's 1990 film 'Hidden City' shot in the tunnel; see my web-page: http://www.cwgcuser.org.uk/personal/...lmtv/hcity.htm -- Nick Cooper [Carefully remove the detonators from my e-mail address to reply!] The London Underground at War: http://www.cwgcuser.org.uk/personal/...ra/lu/tuaw.htm 625-Online - classic British television: http://www.625.org.uk 'Things to Come' - An Incomplete Classic: http://www.thingstocome.org.uk |
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"Nick Pedley" wrote in message ...
other half of the tunnel. Under that ramp there is a small entry on each side where you can squeeze thru to find yourself between the walls of the tram tunnel and the newer road tunnel (about a metre wide). There you can Why on earth did they put fake walls in the car tunnel?? Why not keep the tunnel as it was and just resurface it? B2003 |
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