Recent content by etr221

That is far more than I said - in either direction. If the ticketing system is "insane and overly complicated" then it's not fit for purpose. When it comes into their area of enforcement, all of them. And they need to have the information and training so that they are. Yes. Both ways. The...

Most people - for this sort of discussion - don't distinguish between fines and penalty fares, and regard them as the same That's what they want to do - just buy a ticket and travel. But... The railway is both (a) large and complex (I will leave it to others to come up with which journey has...

Of which there are projects in progress to construct a Clan Pacific and a Class 3 2-6-2T, and create a Class 2 2-6-2T (from a 2-6-0): leaving only the Class 3 2-6-0 unrepresented.

Posters seem to have forgotten that Watkin was also Charirman of the South Eastern Railway, and that would have been the important part of the link. Perhaps the best way of thinking about the Metropolitan's role was as a link between the far end of main lines from Manchester and Europe via the...

At that time, I would expect Irish tickets to be just like British ones, i.e. Edmonson cards, as Ireland was part of the UK, and its railways members of the RCH (Railway Clearing House). But for more detail, I would point you at the Irish Railway Record Society (they have a London Branch), who...

For queries &c on OS maps and mapping, there is The Charles Close Society for the Study of Ordnance Survey Maps, or you can post questions or join the debate at the Ordnance Maps Discussion Group

Also see Clive's UndergrounD Line Guides.

I think the two OPO, no-guard, operations missed above were The District Q23 single cars for the Acton Town-South Acton shuttle service, 1939-1959 The modified 1960 stock, with Victoria line type ATO equipment (later supplemented by 1967 stock) operation of the Central line Woodford-Hainault...

To answer the last question first - quite simply, time: all slides will deterorate with age: quite how fast, and in what way will depend on all sorts of factors - original fim type, storage conditions,.... My own thought is to ALWAYS retain the originals. Then you can ALWAYS go back to them...

LU Northern Line from Borough to Bank and Victoria Line Warren Street to Kings Cross are 'right hand' running in separate single line tunnels - latter I think for best arrangement of the platforms at Euston. Central Line through White City is 'right hand' running in the open, with a flyover...

As a follow up, I would suggest that you might like to add words (to the help page?) to say that it is just for fun, and no other purpose; and that it is a personal offering, unconnected with TfL, and that you are just using the roundel as it is the widely common symbol for TfL stations. And...

I've given it a go... a nice bit of fun, thanks. My one issue is over how station names are displayed in relation to the matching icon: looking at just Tramlink, they can easily be closer to the wrong icon. And zoomed out to show the whole network, they overlay to give a black mess. But how to...

A couple of things strike me from this thread. The first is that it has all been based on the languages used by visitors. I would have thought minority (Scots, Welsh, Irish, Scottish Gaelic) and immigrant (Polish, Romanian, Punjabi, Urdu, Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic, etc), were equally...

Hadders is correct (although I would have said 'Travelcard' rather than season ticket). And, like a travelcard/season ticket, it is valid for use, within its limits, without needing to be tapped (in or out). Journey history is essentially a record of taps: if they are made, then you get journey...

Michael Quick (RCHS RAILWAY PASSENGER STATIONS IN GREAT BRITAIN. A CHRONOLOGY) gives an opening date for the line of 17 September 1830, and for the station (i.e. Newton-le-Willows, which was Newton Bridge until 1888) 1 January 1831. Perhaps the basis for coming up with an answer to this...