Recent content by DynamicSpirit

It would be interesting to know to what extent those are 400,000 new passengers, versus 400,000 existing passengers who have swapped from using Cambridge to using Cambridge South. (It's still good news and a successful station, either way)

I'm reading from all that that CR2 Victoria is being envisaged as a separate station next to the existing station. I think there is one relevant difference: CR2 brings loads of new trains and new passengers to Victoria - trains that would previously have gone to Waterloo, implying the need to...

Would it make a difference if planning for this was done before construction started on CR2 - so there could be passive provision at Victoria (or more optimistically, the box for CR3 platforms put in place at the same time as the box for CR2 is being built?) Have to admit that's partly why I...

Building it that way does have the advantage of minimising new tunnels, since you can in effect use the existing line from Marylebone. But if all trains go that way, you're losing the ability to run a branch up towards Finchley. It would mean all CR3 trains would have to run along Chiltern...

I'm wondering if this would work as an idea for a future Crossrail 3: As shown in the map: Tunnel from Victoria, heading up to Hyde Park Corner, Marble Arch, Edgware Road, Kilburn High Road, where the line would divide. One tunnel would head up to West Hampstead, Golders Green and on to...

If you're on board the train then it seems somewhat unlikely that you'd be aware of anything having fallen on the tracks in front of the train :D

TfL have long used a system for the status of each line where each line shows on their website and public announcements as good service / minor delays / severe delays (or closure / part closure if a line is deliberately closed, eg. for engineering works). The Elizabeth Line is currently showing...

THanks, that's interesting and makes sense. So I guess that means on any flow where an (undiscounted) return costs exactly twice the price of a single, and where the single price is not a multiple of 15p, it's likely to be slightly cheaper for railcard holders to buy two singles instead of a return.

Looking up some fares, I stumbled on this: Ewell West to Leatherhead with a senior railcard: Anytime single £3.10, Anytime return £6.25 Off-peak single £2.10, Offpeak return £4.25 The difference is small, but it means, whether going off-peak or peak, a return costs 5p more than 2 singles. That...

Windrush line completely suspended until the end of the day. Is there no way that TfL can at least run a service from Highbury and Islington to Surrey Quays?

Exactly. Journey planners generally require you to type in or at least click to select all sorts of information, including where you want to travel to and from, when you want to travel. For someone used to reading a timetable, it can be much quicker to get the information they need from the...

Thinking about that a bit more, I'm wondering how that is workable to only work to frequency and not scheduled times. Sure, for something like the Victoria line where the entire line has a very high frequency, you can do that without inconveniencing anyone. But some of the tube lines have a 2-3...

Not entirely. During the day, and for services that run very frequently, buses do indeed appear to run on that basis, and the public timetables shown eg. at bus stops tend to just say things like 'every 10 minutes'. But for less frequent services tihe stops do show actual departure times -...

I also think the TfL website is pretty rubbish in many ways. I agree with others that you'd rarely need to see an actual timetable for most tube lines, but I DO often want to see what the journey time between two stations on one line is. That's really hard to see with the journey planner...

Interesting. I don't ever recall noticing a train shaking as I arrived into Euston, and I would have thought that if trains did generally shake on arriving, that would be something that the general public would notice (To be fair, I'm pretty much never in the front carriage, which on Avanti...