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Ah, Mile End - my local. Thank god the Central Line is frequent and I don't have to spend more than a minute or two there each morning... One assumes when the ceiling is installed the indicators will be lowered... But how long has it been taking them to finish everything at MIE? They columns may be 'pretty' but they're not finished *yet*!
Eskimo Pie | 12.11.09 - 7:49 a.m. | #
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Shame about that ceiling!
Am I the only one who liked that dark cavernous expanse above the platforms?!
Now it will feel quite pokey..
Dan | 12.11.09 - 8:40 a.m. | #
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New 'next train indicators' have been installed at Green Park, the tube station I use for work. There is also a chirpy female voice announcing, for example,'Victoria Line. The next train to Brixton will arrive in 3 minutes'. Am I the only person who can't abide her voice? It's far too upbeat and positive for my liking. Imagine the glee in her voice when she has to announce that 'Victoria line. The Victoria line has been suspended indefinitely due to a person under a train at Pimlico. Please stand back from the platform edge.' /end rant.
michael | 12.11.09 - 8:49 a.m. | #
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I also used to like the old Mile End, it made me feel I was on the New York subway! Imagine a few "50 St" style signs on the columns and you're there.
SELondoner | 12.11.09 - 8:53 a.m. | #
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This is the bane of my tube travelling life...
Crossing platforms onto the southbound Northern line at Stockwell every evening
you can see dozens of people crouching down to try to peer under the CCTV arm to see when the next train will be.
Entering the Southboune Victoria at Oxford Circus and you have to do the same.
Does no-one have overall say in the layout of apparatus at stations?
I get the feeling that there is no 'joined up thinking' at all going on just contractors turning up with an x on a plan of where things fit
londonladsouth | 12.11.09 - 9:42 a.m. | #
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I seem to recall that there was always a river of water tumbling down one of the walls at Mile End - the reason why it always had an 'unfinished' look about it relative to all the other stations on the line. I'm assuming that has now been fixed and the station is just short of the cosmetic touches?
You could never see the next train indicator properly on the C.Line platforms. People always used to ask what the train was when they joined the boarding crowd.
Bina | 12.11.09 - 10:05 a.m. | #
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The departure boards at Watford are next to useless. They use monitor screens that rotate between three pages of information; equal display time is given to the trains leaving within the next few minutes as to the warning about leaving baggage and the trains leaving in an hour or so. Also, there's no indication of which of platforms 1-4 (there's no platform 5 at Watford!) the London Overground service is next leaving from.
At least on the underground the next train on the platform is always displayed.
Audrey | 12.11.09 - 11:55 a.m. | #
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Management in LU argued against the false ceilings at Mile End but Metronet (and their in-house descendent) blithly insisted on going ahead anyway (tail wagging dog, eh?). I too remember the water ingress at Mile End, the stream across the E/B Central Line track which eventually eroded its own little 'valley' in the concrete.
Kim | 12.11.09 - 12:01 p.m. | #
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If you manage to get a responce from TfL/LU please ask them about South Woodford. The indicator board used to be in the middle of platform, then where there was a nearby fire in 2004 it got moved "temporaily" parallel to the platform so that you can only see it if you are standing directly in front of it. During Metronet's refurbished of 2005/06 it didn't move back. So five years later you can check it as you enter the platform but as soon as your a few feet down the platform...
South Woodford | 12.11.09 - 7:03 p.m. | #
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Re Mile End, The low ceiling will also make the station much hotter in summer.
Tony | 13.11.09 - 4:38 p.m. | #
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I've always wondered why they can't be positioned at false-ceiling height on the opposite platform at Mile End. That would get round the problem of the pillars and make them visible to a wider section of platform- should make those standing facing the platform edge have a much better view.
Yes, they would be obscured by arriving trains - but as an addition to one across the platform it makes sense to me.
Brendan | 16.11.09 - 12:12 a.m. | #
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Hammersmith District/Piccadilly line platforms, down the stairs and it's impossible to see any train information without walking half way up the platform and, if you're 6 foot like me, ducking and weaving to get even half a view. At 10:30pm on Saturday evening that made no difference at all because the only "information" displayed was the name of the line. The sole indicator on either platform obscured from most angles by other ceiling paraphernalia, the slight curve of the platform and pillars.
Sciurus Carolinensis Nemesis | 18.11.09 - 11:23 a.m. | #
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