On 8 Jan, 16:14, Tom Anderson wrote:

On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Mizter T wrote:
On 8 Jan, 14:43, Offramp wrote:

On 8 Jan, 12:14, Mizter T wrote:

On 8 Jan, 10:14, Offramp wrote:

Weird stuff

Agreed that after all this publicity I can well see a bunch of awkward-
squad bods turning up next Tuesday to ride on it!

I hope the gawkers on Tuesday 13th don't ruin it for people like me who
may go later in the year as a matter of curiosity! I didn't want to
travel all the way out to Ealing, and I was hoping to get on at
Kensington, but I may get on at Clapham and jump off at a set of
lights.

Interesting that you place Wandsworth Road station in Clapham - to me
it's in a kind of hinterland between Clapham, Battersea, Stockwell and
South Lambeth. We had a discussion about it a while ago

Batterclapstock!


How could I forget! But no South Lambeth in there - Lambatterclapstock
or even Slambatterclapstock - though perhaps South Lambeth starts far
enough up the road for any further modifications to /mangling of your
original to be unnecessary...

On 8 Jan, 16:53, Mizter T wrote:
On 8 Jan, 16:14, Tom Anderson wrote:





On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Mizter T wrote:
On 8 Jan, 14:43, Offramp wrote:

On 8 Jan, 12:14, Mizter T wrote:

On 8 Jan, 10:14, Offramp wrote:

Weird stuff

Agreed that after all this publicity I can well see a bunch of awkward-
squad bods turning up next Tuesday to ride on it!

I hope the gawkers on Tuesday 13th don't ruin it for people like me who
may go later in the year as a matter of curiosity! I didn't want to
travel all the way out to Ealing, and I was hoping to get on at
Kensington, but I may get on at Clapham and jump off at a set of
lights.

Interesting that you place Wandsworth Road station in Clapham - to me
it's in a kind of hinterland between Clapham, Battersea, Stockwell and
South Lambeth. We had a discussion about it a while ago

Batterclapstock!

How could I forget! But no South Lambeth in there - Lambatterclapstock
or even Slambatterclapstock - though perhaps South Lambeth starts far
enough up the road for any further modifications to /mangling of your
original to be unnecessary...-

Pronounced "Slaahk"?

On 8 Jan, 17:32, MIG wrote:

On 8 Jan, 16:53, Mizter T wrote:

On 8 Jan, 16:14, Tom Anderson wrote:

On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Mizter T wrote:

(snip)

Interesting that you place Wandsworth Road station in Clapham - to me
it's in a kind of hinterland between Clapham, Battersea, Stockwell and
South Lambeth. We had a discussion about it a while ago

Batterclapstock!

How could I forget! But no South Lambeth in there - Lambatterclapstock
or even Slambatterclapstock - though perhaps South Lambeth starts far
enough up the road for any further modifications to /mangling of your
original to be unnecessary...-

Pronounced "Slaahk"?


Ha ha, yes, that's the one. In fact we might as well use the
contraction for the new name of the station, and we can rebrand the
area at the same time. It'll become London's hottest new district,
replete with great transport links including a once weekly bus to the
mysterious lands of west London - though you'll have to stay there all
week until you can catch one the other way - that's as long as you've
avoided falling off the edge of the world of course.

Thank you for a tremendous response. I hope you don't think I was
peeved in any way... I wasn't !

I only really said Clapham because of the title of the thread.

On 8 Jan, 13:58, "Recliner" wrote:

If enough (fare-paying) people show up next Tuesday, I wonder if they
would strengthen the service? *If they need several buses to cope with
this unexpected demand, will they need to put a train on to get the
unwanted traffic off the busy London roads?

What would happen if more people turned up than could be carried on
the bus? Would some simply be left behind, with a rather long wait
for the next bus, or would taxis be provided for them? Sounds like
this could start to get even more expensive; maybe that's why they
don't want people using this farce, er service.

"Offramp" wrote in message
...

I did read the posts at the other place and that was where I saw
"09:45 Ealing Broadway,
10:25 Kensington Olympia,
10:55 Wandsworth Road
Returns at:
13:15Wandsworth Road
13:45 Kensington Olympia
14:25 Ealing Broadway"
and I thought perhaps it stopped at K Olymp and took passengers.

I wonder why the bus needs to wait at Wandsworth Road for 2 hours+
instead of returning immediately? It seems a rather inefficient way to
provide a replacement service.

Peter Smyth

Stephen Furley wrote:
On 8 Jan, 13:58, "Recliner" wrote:

If enough (fare-paying) people show up next Tuesday, I wonder if they
would strengthen the service? If they need several buses to cope with
this unexpected demand, will they need to put a train on to get the
unwanted traffic off the busy London roads?

What would happen if more people turned up than could be carried on
the bus? Would some simply be left behind, with a rather long wait
for the next bus, or would taxis be provided for them? Sounds like
this could start to get even more expensive; maybe that's why they
don't want people using this farce, er service.

I guess you'd just be told to take the next service to Wandsworth Road:
Train to Paddington, Underground to Victoria, then train to WWR.

If that means you get to Wandsworth Road later, then you'd probably have
to claim for a delayed journey to XC in the normal way.

On 8 Jan, 18:51, Mark Morton wrote:

Stephen Furley wrote:

On 8 Jan, 13:58, "Recliner" wrote:

If enough (fare-paying) people show up next Tuesday, I wonder if they
would strengthen the service? *If they need several buses to cope with
this unexpected demand, will they need to put a train on to get the
unwanted traffic off the busy London roads?

What would happen if more people turned up than could be carried on
the bus? *Would some simply be left behind, with a rather long wait
for the next bus, or would taxis be provided for them? *Sounds like
this could start to get even more expensive; maybe that's why they
don't want people using this farce, er service.

I guess you'd just be told to take the next service to Wandsworth Road:
Train to Paddington, Underground to Victoria, then train to WWR.


Or Underground all the way to Victoria - the District line goes
direct.


If that means you get to Wandsworth Road later, then you'd probably have
to claim for a delayed journey to XC in the normal way.


Looking over the (intentional) absurdity of the very question, I've a
feeling that XC aren't actually involved in this arrangement
whatsoever, not even by name - I read somewhere that the revised law
now allows for this obligation to fall back on the franchising
authority (i.e. DfT or Transport Scotland) though I've no idea if this
is actually correct.

On 8 Jan, 18:41, "Peter Smyth" wrote:

"Offramp" wrote:

I did read the posts at the other place and that was where I saw
"09:45 Ealing Broadway,
10:25 Kensington Olympia,
10:55 Wandsworth Road
Returns at:
13:15Wandsworth Road
13:45 Kensington Olympia
14:25 Ealing Broadway"
and I thought perhaps it stopped at K Olymp and took passengers.

I wonder why the bus needs to wait at Wandsworth Road for 2 hours+
instead of returning immediately? It seems a rather inefficient way to
provide a replacement service.


Enough time for a couple of pints in the badlands of south London,
surely...

My recommendations...
Tim Bobbin
http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs...Bobbin/Clapham

Bread and Roses
http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs..._Roses/Clapham

Mizter T wrote:
On 8 Jan, 18:51, Mark Morton wrote:

Stephen Furley wrote:

On 8 Jan, 13:58, "Recliner" wrote:
If enough (fare-paying) people show up next Tuesday, I wonder if they
would strengthen the service? If they need several buses to cope with
this unexpected demand, will they need to put a train on to get the
unwanted traffic off the busy London roads?
What would happen if more people turned up than could be carried on
the bus? Would some simply be left behind, with a rather long wait
for the next bus, or would taxis be provided for them? Sounds like
this could start to get even more expensive; maybe that's why they
don't want people using this farce, er service.
I guess you'd just be told to take the next service to Wandsworth Road:
Train to Paddington, Underground to Victoria, then train to WWR.

Or Underground all the way to Victoria - the District line goes
direct.

Would a NR ticket from Ealing to WWR be valid for Ealing to Victoria on
the Underground?