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kingturnip posted:This morning, in the 8 minutes it took between my checking the Greater Anglia website to see if my train was running on time (it was) and walking to the station, my train was cancelled. You are quite correct, it is cheaper for a TOC to cancel a train than it is to incur the knock on delays of late running...
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kingturnip posted:This morning, in the 8 minutes it took between my checking the Greater Anglia website to see if my train was running on time (it was) and walking to the station, my train was cancelled. You might have better luck with http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/. It uses some other data source that apparently the TOCs don't bother displaying.
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Apr 26, 2013 22:27
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In case anyone in Trainchatland hasn't seen it, Ian Hislop's doco about the Beeching axe is back on iPlayer until Monday. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00drtpj/Ian_Hislop_Goes_off_the_Rails/
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Apr 27, 2013 00:38
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All Too Much For Me posted:You might have better luck with http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/. It uses some other data source that apparently the TOCs don't bother displaying. Thanks for this.
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Apr 28, 2013 10:22
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So it looks like the Crossrail 2 consultation has started. I'll admit, I'm curious. Are there really that many people who travel between South-West and North-East London to make this worthwhile? The Metro plan looks reasonably inoffensive, but I do wonder whether the people of Chelsea are really all that desperate for a rail station. The Regional plan can gently caress right off, though, unless they plan on building new track along the West Anglia route. There's barely time to fart between trains as it is.
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May 15, 2013 12:15
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kingturnip posted:So it looks like the Crossrail 2 consultation has started. North-east London is underserved by existing tube lines and has a lot of commuters into the centre of town. The south-west part is more about relieving pressure on services into Waterloo and Victoria than filling in a gap though. I'd have though it would have made more sense to go south-east and try to alleviate the ridiculous problems on trains into London Bridge, but that's been mooted for CR3 (or another expansion of the Overground onto freight lines heading towards Dover). Of course this is again something that was first planned in the sixties and would have cost ten times less to do then (even accounting for inflation) but I suppose you can't look a gift horse in the mouth.
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May 15, 2013 12:31
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kingturnip posted:The Regional plan can gently caress right off, though, unless they plan on building new track along the West Anglia route. There's barely time to fart between trains as it is. Pretty sure the idea would be to replace some of the existing local services with equivalent Crossrail 2 services continuing into London. Isn't that what they're doing with Crossrail 1?
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May 15, 2013 12:44
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Jonnty posted:Pretty sure the idea would be to replace some of the existing local services with equivalent Crossrail 2 services continuing into London. Isn't that what they're doing with Crossrail 1? Quite correct, Crossrail replaces a large majority of the local services between Maidenhead and Paddington (and Shenfield and Liverpool St but that's the GE and who cares?), and would actually replace the entire local stopping service into Pad if someone had made the less stupid decision to run the thing to Reading. As it is, I've just spent four years redesigning the Maidenhead Station signalling (due for approval for construction next week!) for gently caress all reason other than "er, can't quite afford that last 10 miles of OLE".
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Bozza posted:As it is, I've just spent four years redesigning the Maidenhead Station signalling (due for approval for construction next week!) for gently caress all reason other than "er, can't quite afford that last 10 miles of OLE". Does the result cost more or less than the missing OHLE? I'd be unsurprised if it's more... kingturnip posted:I dunno, a combination of there only being a train every 30 minutes and the loving Stansted Express being a priority service means my station is pretty low on the priority list. I'm lucky enough to live at one of the larger stations along there, and can often hop on a Stansted Express for a portion of my journey. Unfortunately, it's countered by the fact that I need to get down to Silvertown, which means I need to go to Stratford (or fork out an additional grand-ish a year to go through zone 1, which I definitely can't afford). And Stratford trains are less frequent, and are almost entirely slow services. Brovine fucked around with this message at 17:40 on May 16, 2013 |
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Brovine posted:Does the result cost more or less than the missing OHLE? Most of the cost will probably be borne by the TOC. I assume that cost must be taken into account when considering what to do, right Bozza? Although I can imagine it's not seen as important now they're not the same people.
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May 16, 2013 20:30
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Anything to add transport links to Kingston is a good idea. Bloody pain getting there on the bus.
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May 16, 2013 21:00
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Brovine posted:Does the result cost more or less than the missing OHLE? Well the OHLE is now being built anyway as part of the larger GWML electrification, but this way Crossrail doesn't have to pay for electrifying the complicated layout at Reading.
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May 16, 2013 21:06
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As I was heading into London this morning on the Jubilee line, at Neasden Depot I saw 2 Class 20 Diesels in pristine BR Blue 
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Gat posted:Well the OHLE is now being built anyway as part of the larger GWML electrification, but this way Crossrail doesn't have to pay for electrifying the complicated layout at Reading. This is true. Also TfL are apparently not too happy about funding trains as far as Maidenhead anyway, so Reading would be right out. Politics.
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May 16, 2013 22:11
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Will the Maidenhead - Marlow branch at least be a little quicker? Last time I took it it felt like walking would have been quicker.
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May 16, 2013 22:17
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pointsofdata posted:Will the Maidenhead - Marlow branch at least be a little quicker? Last time I took it it felt like walking would have been quicker. No cos gently caress Theresa May.
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May 16, 2013 22:21
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pointsofdata posted:Will the Maidenhead - Marlow branch at least be a little quicker? Last time I took it it felt like walking would have been quicker. Down near Barry Island you can play 'Chase the Express' by getting off at one station and trying to make it to the next before the train does. I don't think anyone's ever failed.
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May 17, 2013 09:52
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Good work, Bozza http://www.getwokingham.co.uk/news/s/2134119_theresa_may_disappointed_with_ugly_woodley_railway_bridgequote:Theresa May disappointed with "ugly" Woodley railway bridge
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May 17, 2013 15:33
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So where's a picture of this ugly bridge?
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May 17, 2013 15:38
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Jeoh posted:So where's a picture of this ugly bridge? Yeah, I knew local journalism was going to poo poo but come on... In other news, there's been a "sequel" of sorts made to brilliant BBC documentary The Tube: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01sjtzw/The_Tube_An_Underground_History/
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May 17, 2013 20:19
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Jonnty posted:Yeah, I knew local journalism was going to poo poo but come on... Is that just a one of thing or is it an actual series?
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There is meant to be an actual second series during the summer, I think.
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May 17, 2013 21:09
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Gat posted:There is meant to be an actual second series during the summer, I think. Really? Wooo! I had resigned myself to it just being a one-off for the Olympics.
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May 17, 2013 21:36
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Jonnty posted:In other news, there's been a "sequel" of sorts made to brilliant BBC documentary The Tube: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01sjtzw/The_Tube_An_Underground_History/ Just finished watching that myself; it wasn't bad.
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May 17, 2013 22:09
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Brovine posted:Just finished watching that myself; it wasn't bad. Yep - loved the brilliant Scottish stationmaster and the return of that driver who gave all the tube lines personalities.
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May 17, 2013 22:14
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:Good work, Bozza http://www.getwokingham.co.uk/news/s/2134119_theresa_may_disappointed_with_ugly_woodley_railway_bridge Bozza posted:No cos gently caress Theresa May. I thank you.
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May 17, 2013 22:21
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I can't find a pic of the new bridge, but Network Rail let a local 9 year old cut the red tape on it http://www.networkrail.co.uk/news/2013/apr/Duffiled-Road-railway-bridge-opened-by-Archie-Snell-aged-9/
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Well I found the old bridge on streetview and I have to say it really did rival the Millau Viaduct and the Golden Gate bridge in aesthetic terms: The only person who I imagine really is annoyed about it is the bloke on streetview taking pictures of the trains - the new bridge looks much taller in the network rail article.
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Bozza/others: Any idea what particular work they've been doing on the West Anglia the last few weekends? Cheshunt-Tottenham-Stratford/Liverpool Street seems to be closed most weekends at the moment. Just maintenance, or something else?
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Brovine posted:Bozza/others: Any idea what particular work they've been doing on the West Anglia the last few weekends? Cheshunt-Tottenham-Stratford/Liverpool Street seems to be closed most weekends at the moment. Just maintenance, or something else? I think its renewing the overhead lines.
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Gat posted:I think its renewing the overhead lines. I think at Stratford they're also messing about with the interchange between HS1 and the North London Line and the Great Eastern for freight services (although that work might have finished a while ago). They're also meant to be revamping the old Bow Junction, that runs down to meet up with the London-Tilbury-Southend line near Limehouse station, to allow trains to divert into Fenchurch Street (and LTS trains to Liverpool Street) when needed, but local residents are getting all NIMBY about even the one or two trains a day that currently run down it.
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JingleBells posted:The only person who I imagine really is annoyed about it is the bloke on streetview taking pictures of the trains - the new bridge looks much taller in the network rail article. You have higher parapets if the lines are electrified to prevent people dangling things into the wires, and also because modern bridges have to be able to stop people driving through the parapet That kid is going to need a stepladder
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Brovine posted:Bozza/others: Any idea what particular work they've been doing on the West Anglia the last few weekends? Cheshunt-Tottenham-Stratford/Liverpool Street seems to be closed most weekends at the moment. Just maintenance, or something else? It looks like 'maintenance' for the weekend coming on West Anglia, with 'track renewal' scheduled for the weekend of the 1st/2nd June, while Overhead Lines are the thing this weekend from Stratford-Liverpool St. http://www.greateranglia.co.uk/travel-information/journey-planning/service-alterations
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Stratford - Liverpool St is in the Crossrail area so it might be to do with that. It's off district for me so can't give you a proper answer, sorry.
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Bozza posted:Stratford - Liverpool St is in the Crossrail area so it might be to do with that. It's off district for me so can't give you a proper answer, sorry. No worries, thought it was worth a shot!
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Much fun on the way home today. Points failure on the north side of Stratford, so nothing could leave northbound from platform 11, which on the plus side meant I didn't miss an earlier train because it was delayed a little. Then the train out of Tottenham had a hell of a lot of smoke start coming out of the heating system, which appeared to be going full blast as well, so that was failed at Harlow. And yet I still got home earlier than if I'd been on the train I expected out of Stratford. Oh well, not everything ends badly!
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Rumour mill is turning and looks like Crossrail is going to Reading.
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Bit off topic but here's a twitter account that may provide everyone with a few laughs: https://twitter.com/TlfTravelAlerts
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Hezzy posted:Bit off topic but here's a twitter account that may provide everyone with a few laughs: I do love this account, but it does mean that I read things like "Delays due to a person under a train at Streatham" on the Southern feed and think "how is that funny?"
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Bozza posted:Rumour mill is turning and looks like Crossrail is going to Reading. Policy wise would that be a 360 u-turn, or now up to 540? Not that I don't believe you, but it'd seem odd to give TfL the route out to Reading, while at the same time all the rumours are DfT have turned against Johnson's demand for taking control of various other commuter routes to the surrounding counties.
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