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Post by zebedee104 on Jun 27, 2013 7:41:38 GMT
I'm gonna get in there first .... What's the other one do? I just remember there being two buttons there when LT1 (I think) was shown at the Leyton open day last year. Understandably anyone who knows (sadly not me) is being a bit coy to stop anyone using them.
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Post by zebedee104 on Jun 26, 2013 19:28:58 GMT
The conductors don't give a starter signal...there are no buttons of any sort to communicate with the driver at the conductor's position by the rear door. Incorrect, there are two buttons recessed where the Conductor stands. One of those is the interlock to allow the bus to leave a stop.
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Post by zebedee104 on Jun 23, 2013 8:59:21 GMT
noticed from picks drivers pulling up normally obviously never drove the old RM's ... they should pull forward so rear is at stop. (Devil's Advocate) ... But it's not a Routemaster. You can board at any door, so why do they have to stop with the back at the stop? What really annoyed me yesterday was the conductors completely preventing any sort of hop-on, hop-off operation by planting their entire body across the door between stops. You might as well just close the door and not bother with the second member of staff.
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Post by zebedee104 on May 14, 2013 21:17:21 GMT
Or is it just nothing more sinister than them drumming up tourism and promoting London?
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Post by zebedee104 on Dec 21, 2012 8:28:15 GMT
I do agree - the 388 change will be very handy and a useful new link. For all those lamenting the loss of the 308, the route via Leyton has been more of a diversionary thing anyway during the Olympic work, and it's not surprising it disappeared again at the first opportunity. I sense political jiggery pokery with the 339. I'm surprised they decided to terminate it at Whipps Cross where there's nowhere to put it. An interesting idea would have been to extend it through Wood Street as well (they've always wanted a bus from one end of Wood Street to the other) and have it terminate maybe near Waterworks Corner (hmmm I'm sure there's a turnaround point there not in use!) Extending the W16 from Leytonstone, even by the same silly route they want to put the 339 down to Westfield would have required no additional infrastructure (apart from the buses). Would have been far more sensible. But of course the W16 is also rammed most of the day from Leytonstone so how would it have coped?
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Post by zebedee104 on Dec 20, 2012 17:41:59 GMT
Except the 339 is barely copying the 257 between those two points, so why would they reduce the frequency of the 257? The only common section of route they'll share will be from Crownfield Road to Harrow Green, which is barely sharing at all.
Hardly. One journey in each direction is hardly a vast improvement.
As the 97 is one of my local routes, what concerns me about this proposed change is that the buses will get totally snagged up going into Westfield, as they'll be approaching the bus station from the opposite direction. That's also where you find the bulk of the cars waiting to get to the car park.
If the buses all get stuck at Westfield then the other end of the route is bound to go to hell in a handbasket, no matter how hard aggresively the service is regulated.
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Post by zebedee104 on Aug 25, 2011 17:37:10 GMT
Read hazyday49's post again. He said 11,000 kgs is over 12 tons, not tonnes. Imperial measurement.
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Post by zebedee104 on Jul 14, 2011 6:38:59 GMT
No, it's an 'invitation to treat' and certainly not false advertising, in legal terms.
Whether it's morally right is another matter entirely.
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Post by zebedee104 on Mar 12, 2011 17:44:42 GMT
Are you saying you saw a 321 in Silverlink purple and green? If so, then that's because NatEx has 2 London Midland (Silverlink's successor) 321s on loan at any one time.
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Post by zebedee104 on Jan 12, 2011 20:41:40 GMT
Sorry, yes 377 - bit of morning brain fade. They are decent bits of kit.
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Post by zebedee104 on Jan 12, 2011 9:47:23 GMT
That's hardly surprising when they're using traction motors from the 1960s, the 442s used the ones originally fitted to the 4REP stock built for the Bournemouth electrification of that era.
442s are lovely trains. I had the pleasure of coming back from Brighton on one last month in the evening post-peak. So much more pleasant internally than the 378s (which themselves aren't bad in any way shape or form).
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Post by zebedee104 on Jan 10, 2011 17:10:50 GMT
From reading things such as District Dave's forum, the London transport usenet group etc, it seems like Oyster can get confused once you start doing enthusiasty-type things with it, such as hanging around on station platforms for a while.
You can hit problems even if you're using it like a normal person. For example, I went from Stratford to Waterloo on the Jubilee line, visited some friends at their work for half an hour and then did Bakerloo line to Baker Street. Oyster in its infinite wisdom decided to combine that into a single journey from Stratford to Baker Street.
I know you're asking a different question, with nipping in and out a lot, so I'm willing to bet it'll get clever at some point and try to combine some of your trips.
If you're concerned about it, go to paper for the day - isn't the day cap the same anyway now as the paper One Day Travelcard price as of January's fare changes?
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Post by zebedee104 on Dec 23, 2010 7:57:17 GMT
This is great,But isn't there one about CCTV as well? Yes, and it was in the video. 57 seconds in.
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Post by zebedee104 on Dec 14, 2010 15:55:34 GMT
omnibuses.blogspot.com/2010/12/newport-city-trauma.htmlHow's that for starters? Yes it's from a blog, but it's good enough for me. The MANs lying around somewhere has been a very tight-lipped urban mystery for a while, that was the first thing I'd seen which shed some light on it.
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Post by zebedee104 on Oct 15, 2010 8:02:58 GMT
376 = type of train used by South Eastern, was designed as a inner-surburban train - sliding doors in pockets tube style (as opposed to plug doors), no toilets, high density seating.
378 = type of train used on the London Overground (apart from Gospel Oak-Barking!). Largely similar externally to 376s, interior completely different (all longitudinal seating, detrainment steps built into front end door etc.)
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