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I realised this morning that my journey to work from home involves
nothing but stairs going down! At Clapham North Station, which I used this morning, there are 72 stairs, or so the station notices allege. I then changed at Bank to the DLR, also involving two flights of stairs going down. I got off the DLR at East India - two more flights of stairs going down! Next time I go that way I must count them all and see how many steps I actually go down..... Anybody else have a journey that is either "all downstairs" or "all upstairs" (one journey I occasionally do, between Herne Hill & Streatham on the Thameslink is stairs up in both directions Southbound). -- Annabel Smyth http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/index.html Website updated 9 May 2004 |
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Annabel Smyth wrote the following in:
I realised this morning that my journey to work from home involves nothing but stairs going down! At Clapham North Station, which I used this morning, there are 72 stairs, or so the station notices allege. I then changed at Bank to the DLR, also involving two flights of stairs going down. I got off the DLR at East India - two more flights of stairs going down! Next time I go that way I must count them all and see how many steps I actually go down..... Anybody else have a journey that is either "all downstairs" or "all upstairs" (one journey I occasionally do, between Herne Hill & Streatham on the Thameslink is stairs up in both directions Southbound). District line from West Ham to Temple is all upstairs. West Ham to Holborn is also all upstairs (cross platform change at Mile End to central line). Those sorts of changes would make a large number of stations possible to get to going all upstairs because if you can get into the system going upstairs it's relatively easy to get out of it going upstairs. -- message by Robin May, but I would say that, wouldn't I? "GIVE IN! IT'S TIME TO GO!" - The NHS offers a high standard of care. "You MUST NOT drive dangerously" - the Highway Code Spelling lesson: then and than are different words. |
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Slightly off topic.. but there is only ONE tube station on the map, where
after going through the ticket barriers, you go UP an escaltor to get to platform/train level! Care to have a guess anyone? "Annabel Smyth" wrote in message ... I realised this morning that my journey to work from home involves nothing but stairs going down! At Clapham North Station, which I used this morning, there are 72 stairs, or so the station notices allege. I then changed at Bank to the DLR, also involving two flights of stairs going down. I got off the DLR at East India - two more flights of stairs going down! Next time I go that way I must count them all and see how many steps I actually go down..... Anybody else have a journey that is either "all downstairs" or "all upstairs" (one journey I occasionally do, between Herne Hill & Streatham on the Thameslink is stairs up in both directions Southbound). -- Annabel Smyth http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/index.html Website updated 9 May 2004 |
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"Geoff Marshall" wrote the following in:
news:v0Unc.268$Xs2.15@newsfe1-win Slightly off topic.. but there is only ONE tube station on the map, where after going through the ticket barriers, you go UP an escaltor to get to platform/train level! Presumably you mean up *only* because there are several where you pass through the ticket gates and go up an escalator and then down again. -- message by Robin May, but I would say that, wouldn't I? "GIVE IN! IT'S TIME TO GO!" - The NHS offers a high standard of care. "You MUST NOT drive dangerously" - the Highway Code Spelling lesson: then and than are different words. |
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---------- In article v0Unc.268$Xs2.15@newsfe1-win, "Geoff Marshall" wrote: Slightly off topic.. but there is only ONE tube station on the map, where after going through the ticket barriers, you go UP an escaltor to get to platform/train level! Care to have a guess anyone? Greenford AICMFP |
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"Geoff Marshall" wrote... Slightly off topic.. but there is only ONE tube station on the map, where after going through the ticket barriers, you go UP an escaltor to get to platform/train level! Care to have a guess anyone? Greenford? |
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"One Shot" wrote... Greenford AICMFP Damnit!!! Just beat me to it! |
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In message v0Unc.268$Xs2.15@newsfe1-win, Geoff Marshall
writes Slightly off topic.. but there is only ONE tube station on the map, where after going through the ticket barriers, you go UP an escaltor to get to platform/train level! Care to have a guess anyone? Putney Bridge? (It's upstairs, I can't remember if it has an escalator). -- Roland Perry |
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"Geoff Marshall" wrote in message news:v0Unc.268$Xs2.15@newsfe1-win... Slightly off topic.. but there is only ONE tube station on the map, where after going through the ticket barriers, you go UP an escaltor to get to platform/train level! Care to have a guess anyone? The pre-JLE answer was Greenford, but I'm not sure if West Ham, Canning Town or Stratford might qualify too. -- John Rowland - Spamtrapped Transport Plans for the London Area, updated 2001 http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro...69/tpftla.html A man's vehicle is a symbol of his manhood. That's why my vehicle's the Piccadilly Line - It's the size of a county and it comes every two and a half minutes |
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John Rowland wrote: The pre-JLE answer was Greenford, but I'm not sure if West Ham, Canning Town or Stratford might qualify too. Stratford has stairs or lift to go from the ticket barrier to the high level station (where the central and nation rail bits are); it also has escalaror up to either side of the bridge over the NLL (with stairs or a lift also provided). -- You dont have to be illiterate to use the Internet, but it help's. |
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In article , Annabel Smyth
writes Anybody else have a journey that is either "all downstairs" or "all upstairs" (one journey I occasionally do, between Herne Hill & Streatham on the Thameslink is stairs up in both directions Southbound). Doing this on a journey without changes is easy. For example, if the High Barnet branch is broken then my journey to work is King's Cross (down escalator) to Golders Green (down stairs), then bus. More interesting would be to find the journey with the greatest number of changes that only has downwards (or level) walking movements. I can construct a complete loop: * Tottenham Court Road, start on the Northern * Leicester Square, change to Piccadilly * King's Cross, change back to Northern (!) * Bank, change to DLR * Stratford, change to Central * Tottenham Court Road, back to the Northern again but people may consider this cheating. Any proposals for the longest possible journey, or the journey with most links, without repeating a station? -- Clive D.W. Feather | Home: Tel: +44 20 8495 6138 (work) | Web: http://www.davros.org Fax: +44 870 051 9937 | Work: Written on my laptop; please observe the Reply-To address |
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"John Rowland" wrote the
following in: "Geoff Marshall" wrote in message news:v0Unc.268$Xs2.15@newsfe1-win... Slightly off topic.. but there is only ONE tube station on the map, where after going through the ticket barriers, you go UP an escaltor to get to platform/train level! Care to have a guess anyone? The pre-JLE answer was Greenford, but I'm not sure if West Ham, You also have to go down an escalator at West Ham. I don't know if that means it doesn't count. The NLL platform just has stairs down to it but I don't know if stairs make it not count or if national rail platforms are allowed to count. Canning Town I can't believe I missed this one! I forgot he said "after the ticket barriers" because I was thinking the fact you go down escalators when entering the station means it doesn't count. You can of course go down the stairs too but I thought that would also make it not count (although obviously seeing as they're before you go through the ticket gates it doesn't matter). Of Canning Town, West Ham and Stratford, Canning Town is the only one where after passing through the ticket gates you only go up on an escalator without going down at all. -- message by Robin May, but I would say that, wouldn't I? "GIVE IN! IT'S TIME TO GO!" - The NHS offers a high standard of care. "You MUST NOT drive dangerously" - the Highway Code Spelling lesson: then and than are different words. |
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Roland Perry wrote in message ...
In message v0Unc.268$Xs2.15@newsfe1-win, Geoff Marshall writes Slightly off topic.. but there is only ONE tube station on the map, where after going through the ticket barriers, you go UP an escaltor to get to platform/train level! Care to have a guess anyone? Putney Bridge? (It's upstairs, I can't remember if it has an escalator). Doesn't Ravenscourt Park have escalators up to the platforms? |
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"dan" wrote in message om... Roland Perry wrote in message ... In message v0Unc.268$Xs2.15@newsfe1-win, Geoff Marshall writes Slightly off topic.. but there is only ONE tube station on the map, where after going through the ticket barriers, you go UP an escaltor to get to platform/train level! Care to have a guess anyone? Putney Bridge? (It's upstairs, I can't remember if it has an escalator). Doesn't Ravenscourt Park have escalators up to the platforms? No. |
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On Tue, 11 May 2004 at 00:14:47, Geoff Marshall
wrote: Slightly off topic.. but there is only ONE tube station on the map, where after going through the ticket barriers, you go UP an escaltor to get to platform/train level! Care to have a guess anyone? Canning Town. So if Greenford is like that, then there are two. -- Annabel Smyth http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/index.html Website updated 9 May 2004 |
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