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![]() They do if they're buying a house or changing jobs. Well, for that there will be "future extensions" map ;-) |
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![]() Well west. So it will go to: Euston - west of MC - Camden Town - ... - Edgware? |
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In message , at 14:19:19 on Tue, 8
May 2007, Clive D. W. Feather remarked: The DLR also does two right-angle bends either side of Heron Quays. I don't think so! It's straight from West India Quay to Heron Quays, though there's a right-angle bend south of the latter. Typo. I meant "either side of South Quay". (Too many Quays...) -- Roland Perry |
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On 8 May, 15:30, "John Rowland"
wrote: Bizarrely I came to the same conclusion less than a minute before reading your post. I also think that the Vic and Northern should go through their shared circle in a north-south direction to make the direction of the cross-platform interchange clear. Well actually a few weeks ago I was working on a map that did just this. The idea is that a cross platform interchange is as almost as good as a through journey, so should be shown the same. http://tinyurl.com/238mn2 As you can see, I got stuck working out the Aldgate triangle and whether to include the DLR, so East London is missing. If you can find a continuous line on this map, you can cross London without traipsing down tunnels or over footbridges. There's various weirdness that exists solely to back up this point (eg showing where terminating trains use inconvenient platforms). I've also tried to show how the Met and Northern actually work, and I count the Northern City as a tube service, albeit with limited hours. The current Heathrow layout is probably a mistake. The way I've done Monument/Bank is deliberate. U |
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"Clive D. W. Feather" wrote
The layout of the interchange is presumably the reason why the Victoria Line runs "wrong way" from Warren Street to Kings Cross (inclusive). Correct. There wasn't room to fix it any closer. "Right-hand running on London Transport" was discussed in "The Why and the Wherefore" section of The Railway Magazine in January 1968 (page 61), described as a reply to J. E. Salmon - probably the first time I saw my name in print in any railway magazine. It included a reference to the Victoria Line, 'now under construction'. I'm now feeling quite old! |
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Mr Thant wrote:
On 8 May, 15:30, "John Rowland" wrote: Bizarrely I came to the same conclusion less than a minute before reading your post. I also think that the Vic and Northern should go through their shared circle in a north-south direction to make the direction of the cross-platform interchange clear. Well actually a few weeks ago I was working on a map that did just this. The idea is that a cross platform interchange is as almost as good as a through journey, so should be shown the same. http://tinyurl.com/238mn2 This is very good! I would suggest that between Earls Court and Acton Town, the express line should be straight and the stopping line should be bendy, rather than them being equally bendy ... and something similar on the Met/Jubilee. The other thing is that the interchange slobs are not prominent enough, meaning that it's not that easy to work out a route from A-B at all, never mind the most convenient route. It feels German to me, but I'm not sure why. |
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On May 8, 4:06 pm, alex_t wrote:
Well west. So it will go to: Euston - west of MC - Camden Town - ... - Edgware? This was the reason why, after the derailment on the crossover at Camden Town, the service was simplified so that all Bank branch went to the Edgware branch, and all Charing Cross branch went to the Barnet branch. |
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In article .com,
alex_t writes Well west. So it will go to: Euston - west of MC - Camden Town - ... - Edgware? At Euston the two branches of the Northern Line are approximately at right angles. The CX branch runs along Eversholt Street, while the Bank branch takes a large loop, converging with the CX branch just south of Camden Town. There are then the complex junctions, after which the two branches follow along the two main roads northwards. -- Clive D.W. Feather | Home: Tel: +44 20 8495 6138 (work) | Web: http://www.davros.org Fax: +44 870 051 9937 | Work: Please reply to the Reply-To address, which is: |
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In article , John Rowland
writes The Metropolitan Line has unused platforms at Swiss Cottage station, so the line should probably run closer to or through the station. It's not really the same station. Just another one with the same name. The portrayal of Arsenal is odd, because of the great horizontal distance between the station entrance and the platforms: they are trying to show the station east of the Victoria Line, which the *entrance* may well be, but the Picc tracks between Finsbury Park and Caledonian Road are far away underneath the WCML's graceful curve. I hope not! They're supposed to be under the *E*CML. They've got the Victoria line passing straight under Buckingham Palace, which I don't think it does. It doesn't. -- Clive D.W. Feather | Home: Tel: +44 20 8495 6138 (work) | Web: http://www.davros.org Fax: +44 870 051 9937 | Work: Please reply to the Reply-To address, which is: |
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John Salmon:
"Right-hand running on London Transport" was discussed in "The Why and the Wherefore" section of The Railway Magazine in January 1968 (page 61), described as a reply to J. E. Salmon - probably the first time I saw my name in print in any railway magazine. Did they explain the Northern Line's right-hand running around London Bridge? I have never seen a full explanation of that; "Rails Through the Clay", as I recall, says only that it is "related to the original intention to use cable traction". -- Mark Brader 1. remove ball from package. 2. place in hand. 3. call dog by name. 4. throw ball. Toronto -- directions seen on rubber ball package |
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