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Tim Roll-Pickering[_2_]
Forum:
London Transport
October 13th 15, 08:48 PM
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Clapham Junction Pink Oyster Reader
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Tim Roll-Pickering[_2_]
Clapham Junction Pink Oyster Reader
tim..... wrote:
The trouble is that most people haven't looked at the Single Fare Finder
before travelling. So the advice to touch every pink reader is a belts
and
braces approach which...
Forum:
London Transport
September 7th 15, 02:38 AM
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127
North South divide.
Views:
20,832
Posted By
Tim Roll-Pickering[_2_]
North South divide.
Robin9 wrote:
Depends what you mean by "outer Greater London". I live in Forest Gate in
Newham and we're E7 and part of outer London on the political definition
(strictly the boroughs that...
Forum:
London Transport
September 7th 15, 02:26 AM
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33
Woolwich
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6,421
Posted By
Tim Roll-Pickering[_2_]
Woolwich
Clive D. W. Feather wrote:
The Jubilee would have been better continuing from North Greenwich to
North Woolwich and Thamesmead. But, TfL are awful fond of their DLR
toy train system.
...
Forum:
London Transport
September 5th 15, 10:23 PM
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127
North South divide.
Views:
20,832
Posted By
Tim Roll-Pickering[_2_]
North South divide.
Bryan Morris wrote:
really - how many hgibe their address as Bromley Kent - I suspect that
Bromley at least think themselves as part of Kent not London
I'm in Loughton Essex, on the tube &...
Forum:
London Transport
September 5th 15, 10:14 PM
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127
North South divide.
Views:
20,832
Posted By
Tim Roll-Pickering[_2_]
North South divide.
Michael R N Dolbear wrote:
Ilford & Romford are nominally Essex for Post Code purposes and most
people assume they are in Essex but in fact they are in London Boroughs
Huh ?
The postcode...
Forum:
London Transport
September 5th 15, 10:11 PM
Replies:
127
North South divide.
Views:
20,832
Posted By
Tim Roll-Pickering[_2_]
North South divide.
Roland Perry wrote:
Ilford & Romford are nominally Essex for Post Code purposes and most
people assume they are in Essex
Do they really? Having spent many years living in Brentwood on and...
Forum:
London Transport
August 9th 15, 11:55 PM
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25
Dormant Oyster funds - fuss about nothing?
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5,846
Posted By
Tim Roll-Pickering[_2_]
Dormant Oyster funds - fuss about nothing?
wrote:
Ironically my bank recently had to replace my bank card and the new one
isn't contactless and I wasn't given a choice about that.
No explanation? My...
Forum:
London Transport
August 9th 15, 11:41 PM
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12
PAYG now live on SE Highspeed twixt St Pancras and Stratford
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Posted By
Tim Roll-Pickering[_2_]
PAYG now live on SE Highspeed twixt St Pancras and Stratford
Robin9 wrote:
I've yet to hear anyone round here call either shopping centre "Stratford
City". The new one is universally referred to as "Westfield" and the old
one was always known as "the...
Forum:
London Transport
July 27th 15, 03:46 PM
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27
ELL down for 2 days
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Posted By
Tim Roll-Pickering[_2_]
ELL down for 2 days
Someone Somewhere wrote:
Well, if you can't run a train service (and there are sometimes reasons
why you can't), what else are they meant to offer? A rail replacement
helicopter...
Forum:
London Transport
July 25th 15, 07:11 AM
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12
25% - 40% cuts coming to the transport budget?
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Posted By
Tim Roll-Pickering[_2_]
25% - 40% cuts coming to the transport budget?
tim..... wrote:
One likely consequence is that some Departments may be abolished
or merged. For example, on Newsnight, it was suggested that DEFRA and
DCMS
didn't really need to exist...
Forum:
London Transport
June 30th 15, 11:11 AM
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14
Night tube
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Posted By
Tim Roll-Pickering[_2_]
Night tube
Roland Perry wrote:
In my book the absence of the Northern Line City branch is more
surprising.
I know the City is still pretty dead outside office hours, but Old
Street
...
Forum:
London Transport
April 30th 15, 11:52 AM
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15
ELL closed
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Posted By
Tim Roll-Pickering[_2_]
ELL closed
Someone Somewhere wrote:
And if people see that length of line as crucial they clearly have very
short memories.
Yes but London Bridge hasn't historically been so restricted and the...
Forum:
London Transport
April 30th 15, 11:49 AM
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21
Peter Hendy lambasts Southeastern
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Posted By
Tim Roll-Pickering[_2_]
Peter Hendy lambasts Southeastern
Paul Corfield wrote:
TfL take over two chunks of NR with new operators
in a month's time and people may well be calling TfL "****" fairly
soon if those operations fall flat on their face in...
Forum:
London Transport
April 29th 15, 10:22 AM
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Peter Hendy lambasts Southeastern
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Posted By
Tim Roll-Pickering[_2_]
Peter Hendy lambasts Southeastern
Recliner wrote:
Does TfL covet any of SWT's suburban routes? If it does, that might
explain it.
Crossrail 2 is currently eyeing up some.
That's probably too far in the future for Sir...
Forum:
London Transport
April 29th 15, 09:58 AM
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Peter Hendy lambasts Southeastern
Views:
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Posted By
Tim Roll-Pickering[_2_]
Peter Hendy lambasts Southeastern
Recliner wrote:
SouthEastern are actually OK, it's Southern that has deteriorated over
the years.
His attack on South West Trains is odd too as I think they are brilliant,
and...
Forum:
London Transport
April 13th 15, 11:03 AM
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50
Electoral registration (was: Croxley Rail Link go ahead confirmed)
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9,678
Posted By
Tim Roll-Pickering[_2_]
Electoral registration (was: Croxley Rail Link go ahead confirmed)
Roland Perry wrote:
The market is shifting these days for all manner of reasons such that I
suspect most would now be caught for everything from four year courses to
those taking a year out...
Forum:
London Transport
April 11th 15, 10:18 PM
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50
Electoral registration (was: Croxley Rail Link go ahead confirmed)
Views:
9,678
Posted By
Tim Roll-Pickering[_2_]
Electoral registration (was: Croxley Rail Link go ahead confirmed)
wrote:
Until the early 60s most male students (other than medics) were older
because they had to do National Service first.
I don't think that's true
I used to...
Forum:
London Transport
April 11th 15, 07:41 PM
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50
Electoral registration (was: Croxley Rail Link go ahead confirmed)
Views:
9,678
Posted By
Tim Roll-Pickering[_2_]
Electoral registration (was: Croxley Rail Link go ahead confirmed)
Roland Perry wrote:
Under that rule I would not have been able to register until four months
after graduating. And that's having taken a "gappy year". For most
University students the...
Forum:
London Transport
April 5th 15, 06:41 PM
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23
Chance to ride the Watford North curve
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5,397
Posted By
Tim Roll-Pickering[_2_]
Chance to ride the Watford North curve
Mizter T wrote:
However, without even having been anywhere near it I can still add to the
complaints about poor presentation of information. On the TfL service
status page, the information...
Forum:
London Transport
April 4th 15, 01:37 PM
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23
Chance to ride the Watford North curve
Views:
5,397
Posted By
Tim Roll-Pickering[_2_]
Chance to ride the Watford North curve
Recliner wrote:
Yes, I think that would have been a very good plan, and might be a
better idea even now than an Amersham (or Aylesbury) to Watford
Junction shuttle. I don't think the Chesham...
Forum:
London Transport
April 4th 15, 11:11 AM
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23
Chance to ride the Watford North curve
Views:
5,397
Posted By
Tim Roll-Pickering[_2_]
Chance to ride the Watford North curve
Recliner wrote:
Regarding the seemingly hard to financially justify (and increasingly
expensive) Croxley Link, one is again minded to think of the more
adventurous possibilities of...
Forum:
London Transport
April 3rd 15, 10:14 PM
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23
Chance to ride the Watford North curve
Views:
5,397
Posted By
Tim Roll-Pickering[_2_]
Chance to ride the Watford North curve
Recliner wrote:
For anyone who would like to ride the Watford North curve on a normal
service train, TfL has an Easter present for you.
Most of the Met will be closed for track work over the...
Forum:
London Transport
March 17th 15, 12:33 AM
Replies:
9
London Bridge: 'Life threatening chaos'
Views:
1,153
Posted By
Tim Roll-Pickering[_2_]
London Bridge: 'Life threatening chaos'
Recliner wrote:
I can't say I took a tape measure with me but I didn't the platforms were
especially narrow apart from around the steps up to the bridge. At the
mainline terminuses I'm most...
Forum:
London Transport
March 9th 15, 08:08 PM
Replies:
9
London Bridge: 'Life threatening chaos'
Views:
1,153
Posted By
Tim Roll-Pickering[_2_]
London Bridge: 'Life threatening chaos'
Recliner wrote:
Notably the platforms themselves looked very empty unless they had a
train
in them and the system had declared its destination. There didn't seem to
be
any cases of...
Forum:
London Transport
March 9th 15, 03:15 PM
Replies:
9
London Bridge: 'Life threatening chaos'
Views:
1,153
Posted By
Tim Roll-Pickering[_2_]
London Bridge: 'Life threatening chaos'
Paul Corfield wrote:
I wasn't there and have never been there during rush hour on the
current station layout. However the various photo images that have
been sprayed in the media over the...
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