In article , Geoff Marshall
writes
Edgware Road (a bit like Earl's Court) has always been a nightmare to
navigate.
[...]

Edgware Road westbound is really easy to deal with. About half way down
platforms 3 and 4 are signal repeaters; it's easy enough to place
yourself where both are visible. Whichever one goes green is the train
that will go first.

Earl's Court can be just as confusing. I've been on an Upminster -
Wimbledon train that's come in on the north Westbound platform, and sat
there waiting 2 minutes, and a Wimbleware train has come in on the southwide
platform. I looked out the door, BOTH signals were on Green.

Earl's Court to the Wimbledon branch is one of the few places where you
can't play the game - there's two westbound tracks almost to West
Brompton and, as the driver intimated, no clue when you're standing at
EC as to who will get priority at the merge point.

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Dave wrote in message ...
Plaistow and Theydon Bois catch out quite a few of the locals - let
alone tourists.

[raises hand] "so please, sir, will you enlighten an ignorant
foreigner (well, a northerner)"

I have heard that Plaistow is Plaaahstoe, but what about Theydon?
Theydon Bwah? Thaydon Boys???????

dan

Dave wrote in message ...
Plaistow and Theydon Bois catch out quite a few of the locals - let
alone tourists.

[raises hand] "so please, sir, will you enlighten an ignorant
foreigner (well, a northerner)"

I have heard that Plaistow is Plaaahstoe, but what about Theydon?
Theydon Bwah? Thaydon Boys???????

dan

"Clive D. W. Feather" wrote in message ...
In article , Geoff Marshall
writes
Edgware Road (a bit like Earl's Court) has always been a nightmare to
navigate.
[...]

Edgware Road westbound is really easy to deal with. About half way down
platforms 3 and 4 are signal repeaters; it's easy enough to place
yourself where both are visible. Whichever one goes green is the train
that will go first.


Clever! But does it work at termini like Hammersmith or Whitechapel.
Is it the signal which decides when the train will leave or the
driver?

dan

"Clive D. W. Feather" wrote in message ...
In article , Geoff Marshall
writes
Edgware Road (a bit like Earl's Court) has always been a nightmare to
navigate.
[...]

Edgware Road westbound is really easy to deal with. About half way down
platforms 3 and 4 are signal repeaters; it's easy enough to place
yourself where both are visible. Whichever one goes green is the train
that will go first.


Clever! But does it work at termini like Hammersmith or Whitechapel.
Is it the signal which decides when the train will leave or the
driver?

dan

"dan" wrote in message
om...
Dave wrote in message
...
Plaistow and Theydon Bois catch out quite a few of the locals - let
alone tourists.

[raises hand] "so please, sir, will you enlighten an ignorant
foreigner (well, a northerner)"

I have heard that Plaistow is Plaaahstoe, but what about Theydon?
Theydon Bwah? Thaydon Boys???????

Thaydon Boys. Like Chesham Bois (Chesh-um Boys) which is a place (not a tube
station) near Chesham in Bucks. I think the pronunciation is a sort of
inverted snobbery: "now that the plebs have realised that Bois is a French
word and should be pronounced Bwah, we're going to pronounce it Boys just to
catch them out"!

"dan" wrote in message
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"Clive D. W. Feather"
wrote in message ...
In article ,
Geoff Marshall writes
Edgware Road (a bit like Earl's Court) has always been a nightmare
to navigate.
[...]

Edgware Road westbound is really easy to deal with. About half way
down platforms 3 and 4 are signal repeaters; it's easy enough to
place yourself where both are visible. Whichever one goes green is
the train that will go first.


Clever! But does it work at termini like Hammersmith or Whitechapel.

Yes, but unless the trains are on both sides of the same island platform,
you might have difficulty seeing both signals and reacting quickly enough
when one signal turns green. This is a problem at Edgware Road if the
trains in question are at platforms 2 and 4.

Is it the signal which decides when the train will leave or the
driver?

The signal indicates which train will leave first, but it's up to the driver
how quickly he reacts to it. For example, if the train arrived at the
terminus late or there is a crew change, the driver might not be ready to
depart when the signal turns green. Only in very exceptional circumstances
will the green signal revert to red to enable another train to leave first,
and in that case there is always a 2-minute delay before another signal is
set to green.
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

dan writes
Edgware Road westbound is really easy to deal with. About half way down
platforms 3 and 4 are signal repeaters; it's easy enough to place
yourself where both are visible. Whichever one goes green is the train
that will go first.

Clever! But does it work at termini like Hammersmith or Whitechapel. Is
it the signal which decides when the train will leave or the driver?

Both signal and driver have to be in agreement ;-)

--
Dave

"Martin Underwood" wrote in message
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Chesham Bois (Chesh-um Boys)

Laced-up boots and corduroys?

--
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

It was a dark and stormy night when John Rowland
spam.demon.co.uk wrote in article .
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"Martin Underwood" wrote in message
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Chesham Bois (Chesh-um Boys)

Laced-up boots and corduroys?

Oi! That's my joke!

Grebbsy
--
"All vampires suck, but not all who suck are vampires."
(--B.J.Kuehl)

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