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I see the Jubilee is now with the Bakerloo . I can't wait til the
Northern gers online:)

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I see the Jubilee is now with the Bakerloo . I can't wait til the
Northern gers online:)


Bit of a shame if you wanted Wembley Park tho.

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purple pete wrote:
Bit of a shame if you wanted Wembley Park tho.


At a wild guess, I'd say that's on
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tube/travelinfo/eta/jubilee-station-view.asp?StationCode=WEP.
The station name appears as a separate bit on the end of the URL
(sorry, don't know the technical term), so you can confuse people if
you want to, like this:

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tube/travelinfo/eta/jubilee-station-view.asp?StationCode=STA&StationName=Wagga%20Wagga

:-)

PhilD

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On 21 Apr 2005, PhilD wrote:

purple pete wrote:

Bit of a shame if you wanted Wembley Park tho.

At a wild guess, I'd say that's on
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tube/travelinfo/eta/jubilee-station-view.asp?StationCode=WEP.
The station name appears as a separate bit on the end of the URL
(sorry, don't know the technical term),

I'd call that a query parameter, although i can't find a citation for that
in the standards anywhere just now.

so you can confuse people if you want to, like this:

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tube/travelinfo/eta/jubilee-station-view.asp?StationCode=STA&StationName=Wagga%20Wagga

This is what we call a Widdecombe, after:

http://www.political.co.uk/annwiddec...on=Wagga+Wagga

See:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=sit...he%2 0week%22

For many, many more.

I notice that the station codes are gratuitously incompatible with the
ones NR use for their live departure boards - STR is Stratford or
Stranraer, depending on who you ask. They're also different to LU's own
signal box codes; AIUI, those don't cover every station, though, so
perhaps not surprising.

tom

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On 21 Apr 2005 01:07:02 -0700, wrote:

I see the Jubilee is now with the Bakerloo . I can't wait til the
Northern gers online:)

Should be there within about 6-8 weeks (and the Victoria)

Paul

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On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 16:31:32 +0100, Tom Anderson wrote:

I notice that the station codes are gratuitously incompatible with the
ones NR use

and?
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On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Chris Tolley wrote:

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 16:31:32 +0100, Tom Anderson wrote:

I notice that the station codes are gratuitously incompatible with the
ones NR use

and?

Why?

tom

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"Paul" wrote in message
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On 21 Apr 2005 01:07:02 -0700, wrote:

I see the Jubilee is now with the Bakerloo . I can't wait til the
Northern gers online:)

Should be there within about 6-8 weeks (and the Victoria)

Paul

Any idea when the Central goes online?

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Any idea when the Central goes online?


Yeah, when it moves ;-)

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On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Barry Salter wrote:

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 16:31:32 +0100, Tom Anderson
wrote:

I notice that the station codes are gratuitously incompatible with the
ones NR use for their live departure boards - STR is Stratford or
Stranraer, depending on who you ask. They're also different to LU's own
signal box codes; AIUI, those don't cover every station, though, so
perhaps not surprising.

They're also incompatible with the station codes that NR use for LU
stations (which all have a Z prefix, such as ZFD for Farringdon, ZMG for
Moorgate, ZBB for Barbican).

Are those part of the same set of codes they use for their own stations?
So NR stations get STR, CHX, etc, whilst LU ones get Zxx? If so, i didn't
realise that system covered LU, and there's really no reason for the LU
system to have come up with its own codes.

tom

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On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 14:45:43 +0100, Tom Anderson wrote:
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Chris Tolley wrote:
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 16:31:32 +0100, Tom Anderson wrote:
I notice that the station codes are gratuitously incompatible with the
ones NR use
and?
Why?
Because it doesn't make any sense to a systems analyst that company X
should design its computer systems on the basis of a coding scheme that
is designed by company Y and might be changed by Company Y at any time
without warning. Suppose NR starts a new scheme using 4-letter codes...

Many US companies discovered this to their cost a few years ago when
they had been using the Social Security number as the unique identifier
in their personnel systems, and the US Government changed its format.
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