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Post by wirewiper on Sept 11, 2021 16:40:54 GMT
I did the Central Line from West Ruislip to Epping in one go many years ago (on 62 stock, that's how long ago it was) - at 34 miles long it is the longest end-to-end journey that can be made on the Underground. You must've had a lot of spare time to try that It helped that I lived near the West Ruislip end of the line at the time!
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Post by wirewiper on Sept 11, 2021 17:19:10 GMT
I think I have travelled on just about every passenger line in London, including some really obscure things like the Southern trains that ran occasionally from Wandsworth Road to Imperial Wharf and vice-versa - they were livened-up empty stock workings that became Watford Junction services on arrival at Imperial Wharf, and operated in passenger service as "Parliamentary Trains" to avoid formal closure proceedings for a stretch of line in the Battersea area.
Talking of Parliamentary "trains", I did once try to catch the infamous Wandsworth Road - Ealing Broadway service that was operated once a week by a rail replacement bus, and was put on after Cross Country Trains withdrew its Brighton services. I failed as I waited in the wrong place (I waited at the Wandsworth Road Station bus stop which I think was a reasonable assumption to make!), and I didn't realise until it went past that the anonymous white coach that had stopped very briefly a little way up the road was actually the service!
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Post by vjaska on Sept 21, 2021 13:49:41 GMT
Northern Line extension ticked off including alighting at Nine Elms to grab the bus home. Back to just the Kensington Olympia branch left in terms of the Underground.
Can the Kennington loop still be done?
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Post by southlondon413 on Sept 21, 2021 14:07:42 GMT
Northern Line extension ticked off including alighting at Nine Elms to grab the bus home. Back to just the Kensington Olympia branch left in terms of the Underground. Can the Kennington loop still be done? You might have to wait a while for a Kensington Olympia train, Olympia itself is closed for redevelopment until 2023 at the earliest.
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Post by vjaska on Sept 21, 2021 15:11:01 GMT
Northern Line extension ticked off including alighting at Nine Elms to grab the bus home. Back to just the Kensington Olympia branch left in terms of the Underground. Can the Kennington loop still be done? You might have to wait a while for a Kensington Olympia train, Olympia itself is closed for redevelopment until 2023 at the earliest. The District Line trains are still running there as I passed through Olympia on the Overground on the way to the Alperton final day. It's tacking it onto an existing journey that proving difficult due to it's limited service
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Post by M1104 on Sept 21, 2021 15:25:05 GMT
Northern Line extension ticked off including alighting at Nine Elms to grab the bus home. Back to just the Kensington Olympia branch left in terms of the Underground. Can the Kennington loop still be done? Yes as I believe around one in three trains continue on to Battersea¹, hence the lower frequency along the new section. Bear in mind that we as punters are not officially allowed to ride the loop (even though there are announcements that play for punters that happen to have stayed on). ¹ - or Morden during the appropriate times
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Post by richard on Sept 21, 2021 16:14:13 GMT
Northern Line extension ticked off including alighting at Nine Elms to grab the bus home. Back to just the Kensington Olympia branch left in terms of the Underground. Can the Kennington loop still be done? I believe it's 15tph that still use the loop.
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Post by M1104 on Sept 28, 2021 13:54:43 GMT
Finally rod the NLE, starting from Waterloo as i was on the 77 beforehand and decided i wanted to start from the line's older section into the new. First of all i never realised how fast trains now go from Waterloo to Kennington as it wasn't that fast before, even after the line's ATO upgrade. That was a bit of a bonus for me in starting from Waterloo instead of Kennington. Makes me wonder which other parts of the Northern now travel faster within the older tunnels. At Kennington it now seems odd where the next stop¹ is now announced on southbound platforms, obviously to help remind passengers on which branch the train's due for. It was good that the driver double-reminded punters on her PA system. As the train started departing one of my peak excitement was I was finally going to enter the Kennington Loop, abeit a very small section of it. I was a bit suprised the train wasn't going so as fast as in the other tunnel towards Morden... perhaps because I'm comparing to pre-ATO days with the 59 and 72 stock which used to acceleration quite fast into the Loop. I like how it eventually picked up speed in the new tunnelling, it very much now like riding the Jubilee Line except much louder rush of air between train and tunnel walls where you could barely hear the train motors. I imagine because of the wider tunnels that the air recirculation system would be more effective in cooling passenger compartments on those rare hotter days. Coming into Nine Elms reminds me a bit of Canary Warf and the Piccadilly Line extension, the latter also because of no platform doors. I love how wide the island platforms are, the station future-proofed for busier times in due course. As I already mentioned recently on another thread I would 'ideally' love Clapham Common and Clapham North to be redesigned this way over how it was done for Angel...not that there's anything wrong at all with that station (just me having a station design preference). Nine Elms also reminds me a bit of the JLE's Bermondsey as the escalators go direct from platform to street level. It also reminds me of Colliers Wood Station with the Charles Holden-like design station entrance at the top of the escalators...in effect giving me an idea of what Colliers Wood tube could've looked like if completed in the 2020s instead of 1920s. Prior to arriving at Battersea I'm impressed of how much of the new style scissor crossing tunnels you can see, helped by the tunnel lights which were still on. I'm guessing the lights remain on because it's the end of the line? I'm trying to remember if the lights are usually on at the Victoria Line by Brixton/Walthamstow and the Bakerloo line by Elephant and Castle. Battersea Power Station is a bit darker looking and not as much overall platform space compared to Nine Elms, this being mainly due to having two sets of escalators from platform level....not to say that it's not roomy enough as it's still certainly is. The concourse area is certainly very roomy with quite a Heathrow feel to it. I love how once out at street level you can see the actual old Power Station, although i wonder if it will still be seen as easily from station entrance once all the surrounding buildings are up. I was going to do a return journey back to Kennington but as a 156 was approaching I decided I will do that for another time.... another reason to ride the NLE once again. All in all I'm well impressed with the NLE as a whole, my only disappointment was it not going to Clapham Junction as this stage...but that's already heavily discussed elsewhere on forum. ¹ - Oval or Nine Elms
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Post by mkay315 on Sept 28, 2021 18:09:27 GMT
Finally rod the NLE, starting from Waterloo as i was on the 77 beforehand and decided i wanted to start from the line's older section into the new. First of all i never realised how fast trains now goes from Waterloo to Kennington as it wasn't that fast before, even after the line's ATO upgrade. That was a bit of a bonus for me in starting from Waterloo instead of Kennington. Makes me wonder which other parts of the Northern now travel faster within the older tunnels. At Kennington it now seems odd where the next stop¹ is now announced on southbound platforms, obviously to help remind passengers on which branch the train's due for. It was good that the driver double-reminded punters on her PA system. As the train started departing one of my peak excitement was I was finally going to enter the Kennington Loop, abeit a very small section of it. I was a bit suprised the train wasn't going so as fast as in the other tunnel towards Morden... perhaps because I'm comparing to pre-ATO days with the 59 and 72 stock which used to acceleration quite fast into the Loop. I like how it eventually picked up speed in the new tunnelling, it very much now like riding the Jubilee Line except much louder rush of air between train and tunnel walls where you could barely hear the train motors. I imagine because of the wider tunnels that the air recirculation system would be more effective in cooling passenger compartments on those rare hotter days. Coming into Nine Elms reminds me a bit of Canary Warf and the Piccadilly Line extension, the latter also because of no platform doors. I love how wide the island platforms are, the station future-proofed for busier times in due course. As I already mentioned recently on another thread I would 'ideally' love Clapham Common and Clapham North to be redesigned this way over how it was done for Angel...not that there's anything wrong at all with that station (just me having a station design preference). Nine Elms also reminds me a bit of the JLE's Bermondsey as the escalators go direct from platform to street level. It also reminds me of Colliers Wood Station with the Charles Holden-like design station entrance at the top of the escalators...in effect giving me an idea of what Colliers Wood tube could've looked like if completed in the 2020s instead of 1920s. Prior to arriving at Battersea I'm impressed of how much of the new style scissor crossing tunnels you can see, helped by the tunnel lights which were still on. I'm guessing the lights remain on because it's the end of the line? I'm trying to remember if the lights are usually on at the Victoria Line by Brixton/Walthamstow and the Bakerloo line by Elephant and Castle. Battersea Power Station is a bit darker looking and not as much overall platform space compared to Nine Elms, this being mainly due to having two sets of escalators from platform level....not to say that it's not roomy enough as it's still certainly is. The concourse area is certainly very roomy with quite a Heathrow feel to it. I love how once out at street level you can see the actual old Power Station, although i wonder if it will still be seen as easily from station entrance once all the surrounding buildings are up. I was going to do a return journey back to Kennington but as a 156 was approaching I decided I will do that for another time.... another reason to ride the NLE once again. All in all I'm well impressed with the NLE as a whole, my only disappointment was it not going to Clapham Junction as this stage...but that's already heavily discussed elsewhere on forum. ¹ - Oval or Nine Elms Woop woop. I'm glad you were able to finally go on the new extension. Hopefully the Clapham Junction extension becomes a reality that we'll get to see.
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Post by Busboy105 on Oct 22, 2021 21:49:56 GMT
Going to start to complete every line on the Tube Map in 2 weeks time.. (already done the Circle, H&C, W&C and the Emirates Air Line). Luckily most of the termini are shared with other lines/trains so makes it a little easier; just have to watch out for the maximum time
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2021 13:37:32 GMT
Going to start to complete every line on the Tube Map in 2 weeks time.. (already done the Circle, H&C, W&C and the Emirates Air Line). Luckily most of the termini are shared with other lines/trains so makes it a little easier; just have to watch out for the maximum time Is max time around 2 hours or is it more?
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Post by Busboy105 on Oct 23, 2021 13:42:13 GMT
Going to start to complete every line on the Tube Map in 2 weeks time.. (already done the Circle, H&C, W&C and the Emirates Air Line). Luckily most of the termini are shared with other lines/trains so makes it a little easier; just have to watch out for the maximum time Is max time around 2 hours or is it more? It depends on how many zones you pass when travelling
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Post by mkay315 on Oct 24, 2021 6:27:35 GMT
I've done end to end on the Jubilee, Northern Bakerloo, Waterloo and City, Circle, Central, Hammersmith and City, District and Victoria lines. I still need to go to Heathrow 5 on the Piccadilly line and go to Amersham and Chesham on the Metropolitan Line and then it is complete.
It will always haunt me that I didn't get to go to the original Shoreditch station before it's closure in 2006.
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Post by twobellstogo on Oct 24, 2021 8:39:39 GMT
I've done end to end on the Jubilee, Northern Bakerloo, Waterloo and City, Circle, Central, Hammersmith and City, District and Victoria lines. I still need to go to Heathrow 5 on the Piccadilly line and go to Amersham and Chesham on the Metropolitan Line and then it is complete. It will always haunt me that I didn't get to go to the original Shoreditch station before it's closure in 2006. Chesham is a lovely ride - one to do in the better weather.
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Post by southlondonbus on Oct 24, 2021 8:51:50 GMT
I've done end to end on the Jubilee, Northern Bakerloo, Waterloo and City, Circle, Central, Hammersmith and City, District and Victoria lines. I still need to go to Heathrow 5 on the Piccadilly line and go to Amersham and Chesham on the Metropolitan Line and then it is complete. It will always haunt me that I didn't get to go to the original Shoreditch station before it's closure in 2006. Chesham is a lovely ride - one to do in the better weather. Yes to get the full affect of the Chesham stretch a sunny day is nice as opposed to a cloudy day.
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