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"Between 5pm and 6pm it's Bank. During the morning and evening rush hours it's Liverpool Street, ..."
Not disputing this, just curious: isn't the evening rush hour between 5pm and 6pm?
Jim | 01.03.13 - 1:59 a.m. | #
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The cultureofinsight.com numbers don't say which is the busiest station. They show which has the most entries. Not the same thing.
AC | 01.03.13 - 2:41 a.m. | #
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The Epping-Ongar shuttle did not close so much for a lack of passengers, which was always the case in reality, but because Essex County Council declined to subsidise services on the line any further. Epping Ongar Railway finally launched its service over the majority of this line in 2012, split between Ongar-North Weald and North-Weald-Coopersale shuttles.
THC | 01.03.13 - 6:13 a.m. | #
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It's not true that all West Ruislip trains go to Epping and all Ealing Broadway go via Hainault. The large majority follow this pattern, but not all in the timetable.
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When the first four comments on a post are all fact-quibbles, best rewrite the post :) Done.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.03.13 - 8:46 a.m. | #
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It's a well known "fact" the the steepest gradient on the tube is down at Bow Road (DG Country), when it is in fact not so.
There is a siding just west of Holborn (where the old British Museum station used to be), where westbound trains can reverse and become eastbound trains, and this siding *DOES* have the steepest gradient on the whole of the network.
You're welcome ...
geofftech | Homepage | 01.03.13 - 9:09 a.m. | #
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@ THC: it is also true to say that the Epping - Ongar line closed because the LU ordered the 1992 stock as a fixed 8-car formation, rather than the previous 2x4-car formation of the '62s. The power supply at Ongar was insufficient to start an 8-car train, so either the infrastructure would have had to be upgraded or a dedicated 4-car train ordered for the shuttle. Neither were cost effective. Pity.
Paul | 01.03.13 - 9:16 a.m. | #
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Curiously, the City & South London Railway which opened ten years earlier also initially charged a flat fare of tuppence, I believe. Quite why the phrase got used for the Central and not the C&SLR is not clear.
Pedantic of Purley | 01.03.13 - 9:19 a.m. | #
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While I can't compete with the levels of knowledge and pedantry displayed above I am looking forward to Central Line month. Somehow, with its greater range of destinations it seems a much more interesting line than the poor old Bakerloo.
Whiff | 01.03.13 - 9:38 a.m. | #
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Sorry I can't compete with the exceptional quibbles and pedantry displayed above, but I think you meant "Central line trains", in the plural.
swirlythingy | Homepage | 01.03.13 - 10:15 a.m. | #
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Thanks DG - These tube histories are great.
As always you make for an informative and interesting place to visit each day.
CF
ChingfordFlaneur | 01.03.13 - 10:22 a.m. | #
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Somebody mentioned the old british muscuem station and i have been on trains approaching holborn from tottenham court road where the driver has told everybody about it, even adding in a little ghost story just to make it funny i guess!! :)
Rachel | 01.03.13 - 11:43 a.m. | #
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Does every railway related post have to lead to hordes of ever-so-slightly dull pedantry in the comments section?
If so your year of tube lines could prove hard work.
Nick | 01.03.13 - 12:42 p.m. | #
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Is this an indication that 'Tube Year' is going to be in alpabetical order by line rather than jam-jar determined?
NLW | 01.03.13 - 5:05 p.m. | #
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To get back to the pedantry :-)
46 miles is the route mileage. The track mileage is at least twice that...
Steve Bird | 01.03.13 - 5:54 p.m. | #
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On a non pedantic basis, I find the fact that central line trains are 20 years old quite disturbing. I remember them being new... :(
ian | 01.03.13 - 8:44 p.m. | #
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@Ian - I had that thought too! I remember the curved glass that distorted your reflection across the car.
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@Paul - the 1992 tube stock is not made in "fixed 8-car formation". It is formed from four two-car pairs, with three different types of car. There is nothing to prevent four-car trains being operated, and indeed such formations are used on the Waterloo & City line. However, I can't recall a four-car train of 1992 stock operating on the Central line, and as you say, there were power supply problems with running eight-car trains to Ongar.
Abe | 02.03.13 - 9:05 a.m. | #
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