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Forum: London Transport June 15th 04, 09:52 PM
Replies: 46
Views: 7,967
Posted By AyrAlex
Tube fare prices

Roland Perry wrote:

This is going to sound extremely dumb, I know. But when did a simple Z1
tube fare increase to Two Pounds? Well, that's what the machine at
Paddington charged me to go to St...
Forum: London Transport June 1st 04, 07:41 PM
Replies: 33
Views: 6,224
Posted By AyrAlex
£1 flat fare tube

Glasgow Subway is £1 single. And since it's a circle, you can get a lot for
your pound. You can go round and round and round and round and round and
round and round all day (if you're sufficiently...
Forum: London Transport June 1st 04, 07:00 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 5,013
Posted By AyrAlex
DLR and one-unders

Andy wrote:
Which are the stations where you can hear running water, Kelvinbridge and
Cessnock?
Very funny, but no.

The Glasgow Underground (sorry, I refuse to embrace the new 'Subway'
...
Forum: London Transport May 30th 04, 09:46 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 2,878
Posted By AyrAlex
How much is a train ticket down there?

Andy wrote:
Incidentally, my impression of Glasgow (as a visitor from the southeast of
England) was VERY impressive. This has to be the most stunning,
architecturally innovative and friendliest...
Forum: London Transport May 29th 04, 08:48 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 2,878
Posted By AyrAlex
How much is a train ticket down there?

CDS £12.90 / £20.70 (Don't ask me why there are two fares - I think
the cheaper one is TO London and the dearer one FROM)
SDS £21.20
FDS £31.80
Exactly, for a single, that's about 5 or 6...
Forum: London Transport May 29th 04, 08:38 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 2,878
Posted By AyrAlex
How much is a train ticket down there?

paul_mc28 wrote:

Tell me bout it alex, i just moved down south from Ayr and the fares are
much more expensive, i'll come back home anyday lol

You don't get the 'annoying annie' automatic...
Forum: London Transport May 27th 04, 10:46 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 2,878
Posted By AyrAlex
How much is a train ticket down there?

I just wondered, as I seem to remember an off-peak half single from London
to Dover costing a lot of money back in 2001. On top of the large cost, I
had to change at Chatham, and the train split in...
Forum: London Transport May 27th 04, 10:44 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 3,504
Posted By AyrAlex
getting from Heathrow

Colin wrote:

"Gazeta" wrote in message
...
Hello how can I get to London center from Heathrow, and how
can I get back in the night at...
Forum: London Transport May 27th 04, 09:57 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 5,013
Posted By AyrAlex
DLR and one-unders

Boltar wrote:
You'd be a resident of Glasgow then? :)
Yes. The place where the floor of the subway in the station has trenches in
it so that people who are pushed down there or jump off can lie...
Forum: London Transport May 26th 04, 12:47 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 767
Posted By AyrAlex
Transports...

Paul Weaver wrote:
Wouldn't that be "London Sucks" (true, of course)
Technically, yes.

Oh well, I don't know how this works then :) but I've seen it in a few
places.

--
"We are now approaching...
Forum: London Transport May 26th 04, 12:35 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 2,929
Posted By AyrAlex
Oyster prepay

David Walters wrote:
Were you still able to buy
tickets with prepay credit even if you had unresolved journeys on
your Oyster?

Aah... Why does everything have to be so complex? I should be...
Forum: London Transport May 26th 04, 12:31 PM
Replies: 22
Views: 4,219
Posted By AyrAlex
Cost of big and small tubes

Tom Anderson wrote:
wouldn't it have made sense to build the underground to be
compatible with the rest of the network, as, AIUI, in Tokyo?

Digressing a bit, I've always wondered why the South...
Forum: London Transport May 23rd 04, 02:46 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 767
Posted By AyrAlex
Transports...

Feel free to ignore this. It's shown up on a lot of newsgroups. It takes the
string after the last dot (i.e. 'transport') in the title, then adds an s
to the end. Kind of moronic really.

--
"We...
Forum: London Transport May 22nd 04, 07:05 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 787
Posted By AyrAlex
Pub-ism - The site about socialising

M J Forbes wrote:


Err ... shouldn't it be 'pubbism'? As in lad - laddism.

One might think that this is a site about something entirely different!
;-))

Bloody good point .... :)
Forum: London Transport May 22nd 04, 07:02 PM
Replies: 49
Views: 8,343
Posted By AyrAlex
Compulsory stops (was: Kingsway Tram Subway open to ...)

Brader" wrote:

Do British bus companies outside London generally *have* the distinction
between request and compulsory stops?

I live in the countryside 30 miles from...
Forum: London Transport May 22nd 04, 07:00 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 5,013
Posted By AyrAlex
DLR and one-unders

Lars Elmvang wrote:

Don't the new underground stations have glass doors by the platforms (I know
underground trains aren't automated)? I'm not sure if they do, because my
local underground has 20...
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