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Forum: London Transport August 23rd 12, 01:30 PM
Replies: 63
Views: 14,906
Posted By Graham J[_2_]
London Overground Extension To Clapham Junction

To run the whole service reliably (and it's designed for up to 18 or even
20
tph ultimately) with adequate turnround times and margins you'd need a
four platform station at Highbury, and...
Forum: London Transport August 23rd 12, 10:36 AM
Replies: 63
Views: 14,906
Posted By Graham J[_2_]
London Overground Extension To Clapham Junction

I don't see the purpose of terminating at Dalston Junction. Its
nowheresville.
Even if you want to get the NLL you have to walk to kingsland. Why doesn't
every train just go to highbury...
Forum: London Transport March 9th 11, 09:53 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 6,280
Posted By Graham J[_2_]
Is it too much to expect buses to actually stop at bus stops?

Presumably the research didn't include those I see on almost every bus
journey who signal the bus too late (either with a V sign or an angry
fist) as it sails straight pass compulsory bus...
Forum: London Transport March 2nd 11, 07:58 PM
Replies: 28
Views: 4,894
Posted By Graham J[_2_]
Journey History

I wonder what the rationale is there - I had been pondering that it
was some sort of systems issue (that I couldn't quite decipher), but
actually I wonder if it might not be more of a safeguard...
Forum: London Transport January 2nd 11, 09:57 AM
Replies: 44
Views: 8,066
Posted By Graham J[_2_]
Victoria line map

I wasn't suggesting otherwise but trying to identify the precise condition
you are trying to describe. I think what you're saying is that whichever
side of the train you sit on the end of...
Forum: London Transport December 3rd 10, 08:26 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,821
Posted By Graham J[_2_]
Live Departure Board Error

I wonder how that happened?

There were some interesting entries for East Croydon to London Bridge
services this morning. First Capital Connect's emergency service from
Brighton to City...
Forum: London Transport December 2nd 10, 05:45 PM
Replies: 35
Views: 6,055
Posted By Graham J[_2_]
SNOW JOKE

but why the disruption should have been
so bad
this yesterday, when the weather was less severe than we have seen in
the last two years isn't yet clear.

I...
Forum: London Transport November 30th 10, 11:08 PM
Replies: 35
Views: 6,055
Posted By Graham J[_2_]
SNOW JOKE

The Croydon area seems to have been very badly hit.
...
The weather in the afternoon was much worse than it had been in the
morning

Although we seem to have had five or six inches of snow...
Forum: London Transport November 30th 10, 09:44 PM
Replies: 35
Views: 6,055
Posted By Graham J[_2_]
SNOW JOKE

A lot of bus routes have been disrupted by the snow and whilst
Metrobus have provided a lot of info through their excellent website
there is nothing at all on the TfL website which I think is...
Forum: London Transport October 25th 10, 11:38 AM
Replies: 20
Views: 3,830
Posted By Graham J[_2_]
Making an immediate return with Oyster

And what would happen if I touched in at Brockley, then did nothing
else before touching out at Brockley an hour later?

My understanding of how that situation works with same station entry and...
Forum: London Transport October 6th 10, 11:08 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 5,747
Posted By Graham J[_2_]
Oyster PAYG more expensive than paper tickets?

I ought to have paid more attention before, but how the eck can
Fenchurch Street to Bank be an OSI when Cannon Street to Bank is not?

Perhaps even more to the point, why are Liverpool St NR to...
Forum: London Transport October 6th 10, 12:11 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 5,747
Posted By Graham J[_2_]
Oyster PAYG more expensive than paper tickets?

1) Should there have been an OSI applied on your return journey?

[...snip...]

Fenchurch Street NR exit 15:32
Liverpool Street LU entry 15:45

I deliberately phrased my points as queries...
Forum: London Transport October 5th 10, 10:52 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 5,747
Posted By Graham J[_2_]
Oyster PAYG more expensive than paper tickets?

Following up my own post...

On the outbound trip there is clearly an OSI and the end result is the
Senior Railcard discounted journey at £3.75 that Barry quoted, though I
didn't see where it...
Forum: London Transport October 4th 10, 04:09 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 5,747
Posted By Graham J[_2_]
Oyster PAYG more expensive than paper tickets?

I am somewhat disappointed to have received only one reply to this
message,

Perhaps no one could work out exactly what happened in your case.

On the outbound trip there is clearly an OSI and...
Forum: London Transport August 2nd 10, 08:44 AM
Replies: 135
Views: 22,373
Posted By Graham J[_2_]
[OT] Postal counties to be dropped from the Postcode Address File

as our address format. Of course, you only *need* "20 AB1 2CD", but
the inclusion of the street and post town provide a useful "checksum"
to ensure the postcode is correct, and the street...
Forum: London Transport July 22nd 10, 11:13 PM
Replies: 47
Views: 12,348
Posted By Graham J[_2_]
Oyster Route Validators - compulsory to touch?

(Incidentally, if a tram passenger did alight at Wimbledon then touch
on one of the Oyster readers on the tram platform, then it's quite
possible there'd be no ill-effect - Tramlink allows one...
Forum: London Transport June 9th 10, 08:36 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,257
Posted By Graham J[_2_]
Dalston to Enflield Town Chingford.

An alternative is to grab an eastbound 30 or 56 at Dalston Junction and
toddle 5-6 mins down the road to Hackney Downs. They stop right outside
and it's not a bad connection given the NXEA...
Forum: London Transport June 7th 10, 01:19 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,257
Posted By Graham J[_2_]
Dalston to Enflield Town Chingford.

The East London Line is basically a north-south route, except for the
upcoming section to Highbury and Islington. But what if a connection
were made to the Lea Valley Lines, which according to...
Forum: London Transport February 28th 10, 08:15 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 4,294
Posted By Graham J[_2_]
Oyster a real time waster

The online journey history can sometimes takes several days to update,
and is also sometimes missing entries (and indeed exits). No idea why
this is the case.

The other day I made a journey of...
Forum: London Transport December 21st 09, 08:37 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 972
Posted By Graham J[_2_]
Topping up PAYG in Barking?

- or automatically from the Oyster readers if you have auto top-up
enabled, of course.

Either the rules have changed since I've last looked at them (not being a
regular user of PAYG) or...
Forum: London Transport July 19th 09, 04:15 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 4,842
Posted By Graham J[_2_]
7 coats of arms on Hammersmith Bridge

Good point. (Pretty poor of me not to spot that when I live so close to
the River Lee which formed the boundary between Middlesex and Essex.)
Looks as if it the arms represented the areas...
Forum: London Transport July 16th 09, 07:49 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 4,842
Posted By Graham J[_2_]
7 coats of arms on Hammersmith Bridge

Yes. And of Essex if it were the MBW.

I was ignoring Essex as it didn't seem to have any representation on the
metropolitan board
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_Management_Act_1855),...
Forum: London Transport July 16th 09, 07:50 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 4,842
Posted By Graham J[_2_]
7 coats of arms on Hammersmith Bridge

I think the whole thing may be the [main members of the] Metropolitan
Board of Works. There's something the same or very similar on at least
some of the old pumping stations.

That would...
Forum: London Transport May 1st 09, 09:07 AM
Replies: 69
Views: 11,526
Posted By Graham J[_2_]
Buggy On Bus Discrimination Claim

When I first read that I though you meant they hooked the baby to the
front of the bus
What a bloody good idea Neill :)) .

You'll still get people complaining there aren't enough hooks...
Forum: London Transport May 1st 09, 09:05 AM
Replies: 69
Views: 11,526
Posted By Graham J[_2_]
Buggy On Bus Discrimination Claim

Eh? Apart from the routemaster I can't think of any London buses that
*don't*
have doors in the middle.

There are a few single door PDLs in use on my local route and totally
unsuitable for...
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