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Thank you so much for the list of pages that lurk in the hidden depths of the TFL website, I have already made use of one of them by reporting a smashed wayfinder board and also checking what residential properties TFL currently have to let (IE None),
a great list and of much interest to me.
Fishislandskin | 10.06.16 - 7:59 a.m. | #
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As ever DG, you spoil us. How do you find these!?
The bus timetables have a fascinating oddity. On my route, I'd expected the 24hour format, but my last bus ends its journey at 2524. (ie, at 0124 the next morning). Never seen a timetable use that format before.
IslandDweller | 10.06.16 - 8:04 a.m. | #
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It amuses me thoroughly that a significant number of these are "FoI busters".
For example the car line diagrams and stickers.
Kirk | 10.06.16 - 8:19 a.m. | #
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@IslandDweller
Look at the night bus schedules then, they go until 32xx
JQ | 10.06.16 - 8:46 a.m. | #
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Services running 24 hours, or nearly so, need to have 36 hour clock times after midnight, for workings that start before 2400, otherwise when scheduling the service there is a grave risk a bus might be rostered onto a neverending working, and never come back to the garage ...
D9000 | 10.06.16 - 9:04 a.m. | #
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Oh dear. There's a mistake in the safety pictograms. 4.1 Keep Feet Of Seats.
Uncle Audrey | 10.06.16 - 10:00 a.m. | #
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Very useful DG. I looked at the Teaching Resources- I don't know why they are not advertised more widely.
Cornishmonkey | 10.06.16 - 10:20 a.m. | #
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"Keep feet off the seats" is the latest "voice of nanny" announcement to be rolled out on my line (why are they always so much clearer than the important ones like "this train has been diverted to (somewhere I don't want to go)"?)
The announcements are usually made at times when more than 50per cent of the passengers have no chance of getting any part of their anatomy on a seat!
Timbo | 10.06.16 - 10:54 a.m. | #
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there have been eight waterloo and city line diagrams in this period. eight.
wolf | 10.06.16 - 11:05 a.m. | #
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Poor old unloved Emerson Park with no wi=fi!
Klepsie | Homepage | 10.06.16 - 12:07 p.m. | #
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@wolf "there have been eight waterloo and city line diagrams in this period. eight."
There would have been 80 if TfL had included all the ideas to extend it to Vauxhall, Victoria or Verney Junction, link it to the DLR or connect it to the Moorgate line; or add a station at Blackfriars.
Alan Burkitt-Gray | 10.06.16 - 3:31 p.m. | #
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@ D9000
Christmas Day and all the buses will be back at the garage...that when the problems start as realise, that one day a year, there not enough space for all of them!
OnTheBus | 10.06.16 - 4:46 p.m. | #
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I think in Hong Kong none of the garages are big enough to accommodate all the buses, as many routes operate 24 hours a day, 365/6 days a year - this doesn't matter.
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For Christmas day, they use a little-known feature of the Borismaster, if you drive one of them //very slowly// up against the back of another, they can be compressed by about 260mm. You have to be very careful when releasing the brakes on Boxing Day though.
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Does anyone know why Aylesbury is still inclued on the met timetable?
Tom | 10.06.16 - 9:45 p.m. | #
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Absolutely fascinating - didn't know for instance that some Hammersmith & City line trains start from Upminster. DG comes up trumps again.
Dave B | 10.06.16 - 10:09 p.m. | #
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The supposedly geographically correct map puts and aldgate East closer to whitechapel than to aldgate. Surely incorrect
Lumma | 11.06.16 - 2:09 a.m. | #
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@10.06.16 - 7:00 p.m.
No routes operate 24 hours a day in Hong Kong.
Most services operate from roughly 0600-2400 with a few starting earlier and others continuing to 0130 (or 2530 if you like)
About 5% of routes are night buses, with a significant number of them being airport buses.
JQ | 11.06.16 - 6:29 a.m. | #
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Looking at the latest Victoria working timetable, I am fascinated and confused by the suggestions that it takes longer to drive a train southbound down the Victoria line than it does to drive it northbound up it. Why should this be? I have some guesses, but have no way of telling which might be right:
1) Might the northbound and southbound tunnels be in different conditions, or have different turning radiuses on the curves and thus require different speeds?
2) Might there be different sets of points to be navigated in the two directions, which have to be encountered at different speeds?
3) Might there be different expectations of numbers of passengers boarding and alighting at any particular station in the two directions, leading to different predicted stopping durations at the stations in question?
aTdHvAaNnKcSe for any help!
Chris D. | Homepage | 11.06.16 - 1:38 p.m. | #
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@ Chris D - track geometry will vary by direction leading to different run times. Approach speeds to certain platforms will differ especially where there are points to cross. Different stations will certainly have different dwell times and these will vary by direction. It is also worth noting that timetables do have recovery time at certain places put into the timetable and that will alter the total run time by direction. There is also the fact the line rises and falls in different places which will make it potentially slower climbing than descending in the opposite direction.
PC | 11.06.16 - 4:58 p.m. | #
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@ JQ - err there are routes in HK which run 24 hours a day - they just have a "N" prefix but otherwise the routes are identical. Given the original point about Christmas it's worth saying that buses run a full service and some routes have an enhanced service. Ditto for 31 Dec plus the many Chinese holiday / festival dates throughout the year.
The other major difference in HK is that many bus garages are multi storey because it's cheaper to build up than out given HK's land values.
PC | 11.06.16 - 5:07 p.m. | #
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Thank you, PC.
Chris D. | Homepage | 11.06.16 - 10:54 p.m. | #
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