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Ever since the Jubilee Line Extension, LRT/TRL have lost the art of constructing station entrances and interchanges. They love people going up and down escalators, lifts and ramps. Canning Town JLE is another example of platforms that are a pain to get to, and just about anywhere except Canada Water is a good example of a bad interchange.
Max Roberts | Homepage | 03.06.10 - 8:11 a.m. | #
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Not sure you've got the station name quite right DG!
dg nods: Oops, rogue 'e', now removed, ta.
Neil | 03.06.10 - 9:18 a.m. | #
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And closed again today. The NLL seems almost cursed regarding engineering work and failures...
Kim | 03.06.10 - 9:40 a.m. | #
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Pity the trains do not go to North Woolwich anymore.
John | 03.06.10 - 10:08 a.m. | #
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It seems to be a national plague: nice, shiny new signs plastered over with horrible temporary ones. Whether in a brand-new NHS hospital, a glitzy west London shopping mall or an expensively refurbished Overground station, you see them: crudely hand-written or laser-printed in giant Arial or Times New Roman, and frequently featuring rogue apostrophes, indicating that what was intended by the architect to be the staff coffee room is now the ticket office or the obs & gyn ward.
Why is it that any new building never seems to perfectly fit the purpose for which it was designed, leading to this profusion of DIY signage? Is this a peculiarly British phenomenon?
Alex W | Homepage | 03.06.10 - 10:54 a.m. | #
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I used to work near CR&B and occasionally used it to get home or go out after work. I have a vivid memory of being there one deserted Sunday night, in the dark, when it was just me on that old westbound platform and the rats frolicking on the track below.
Whatever's changed, it's got to be better than that.
darryl853 | Homepage | 03.06.10 - 11:05 a.m. | #
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The ticket office isn't new.
The lack of departure boards/announcements is temporary due to the work running late. Hopefully the loudhailer people will be sent off to do something useful.
(although TfL seem to consider pointless overstaffing a positive feature)
Graham | 03.06.10 - 11:33 a.m. | #
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Longest station name in London?
I would have thought that honour goes to "Cutty Sark for Maritime Greenwich" unless you were restricting this to Overground stations only.
Island Resident | 03.06.10 - 12:11 p.m. | #
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I disagree with you on this one, dg.
The ongoing transformation of the LO stations from grotty run-down squalor-ridden drains to nice bright clean and colourful (yes - even if the flowers are plastic!) should be applauded - not mocked!
And as Graham says, they haven't finished yet.
Dan | 03.06.10 - 12:46 p.m. | #
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Great pity about the limited provision of of shelters from the rain here and at Canonbury though, and that the reconstruction of the stations has clearly been to National Rail specifications, rather than the much higher (if more expensive) ones favoured by TfL.
Although it's good that, at last, the neglect of this line (and the GOBLIN) is finally, finally, being reversed
Dominic | 03.06.10 - 1:42 p.m. | #
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No information at all is a very poor show. I thought there were standards in place that every train operator had to display (at the very least) a current timetable.
Jon Combe | Homepage | 03.06.10 - 1:56 p.m. | #
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Access to W/B trains at Cally Road & B far more inconvenient now. Next to no improvement in facilities from what went before until the lifts are commissioned it seems.
At Canonbury, at least four staff members on duty! These stations were often completely unmanned when slam doors trains ran so why the H&S overkill now? (And at a time when LU are stil leaving stations unstaffed due to "staff shortage".)
Kim | 04.06.10 - 2:24 a.m. | #
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"CR&B has never been a lovely station". Well, not since the Luftwaffe and then BR got to work...
Kim | 04.06.10 - 2:27 a.m. | #
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Greg says that we can all read but that is not true. What about people who are blind and may use public transport. I'm sure they appreciate the tannony announcements.
Barry | 04.06.10 - 10:29 a.m. | #
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I agree, there's complete overkill on the announcements these days. As for blind people, how many of them, use deep underground stations? Or the top deck of double deckers?
Mike C | 05.06.10 - 2:15 p.m. | #
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On my laptop I can see the very faint but unmistakeable figure of a person reflected in the picture of the CR&B platform roundel. Have you unmasked yourself DG...? :-)
THC
THC | 05.06.10 - 5:45 p.m. | #
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Mike C, I don't know how many blind people use deep underground stations but I suspect some must if they are on the route they wish to take. Admitedly they probably dont use the top deck of a bus but then again it has been many years since I have used a london bus and did not realise that they too used tannoy announcements. Getting back to announcements on tubes I find them handy when I'm on a crowded train and can't see the next station indicator.
Barry | 07.06.10 - 8:43 a.m. | #
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