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  • Good use of camera angles and positions there not to show too much of the 'other' side of the road !  :)
  • kilian_om said:
    We actually have an RER style service in the core section of Thameslink. Both have a similar capacity in terms of passengers moved per hour per track. RER A capacity = 2000 passengers per train * 20 trains an hour = 52000. Thameslink = 1750 * 24 = 42000 

    For context the jubilee line moves 29000 people an hour per direction, a well designed cycle lane can move 14000 people in an hour and a lane of car traffic can move 2000 people.
    29000 football fans could leave a stadium and be ‘moved’ via the jubilee line; in all practicality 14000 football fans probably couldn’t leave a football stadium and get on their bikes even if they are spread along the line at stadiums from Shepherd’s Bush to Stratford 
  • It's like a Charlton player returning from injury, always being delayed...
    At least now it's out on the grass with trial operations carrying people. The final trials are in early March.

    Could open soon after between Abbey Wood and Paddington.
  • The way they are talking about it now I will be amazed if it isn’t open by June as predicted.
  • They’ve been building an extension to one of the lines here. It was supposed to open last June I think, but then delayed for Covid/supply chain issues. Then it was January, and one of the last steps was putting electrical equipment into substations - but in November they delayed it again. The plan called for multiple teams to be working simultaneously each substation. Only problem is you can only fit two people in at a time. Now March for one spur, and June for the rest. Don’t you love a plan. 
  • Cancelled, trespasser on the line......I joke.
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  • Rothko said:
    Heard that we could be less then 6 weeks from it being open 
    So March 21 then. The day after I’ve sodded off back, after my first visit over in 2.5 years. Serves me right, I hear the chorus :smile:

    does look very impressive, although I didnt realise the station is in the Arsenal. Isnt that a bit of a walk from the DLR and SE stations? 
  • So March 21 then. The day after I’ve sodded off back, after my first visit over in 2.5 years. Serves me right, I hear the chorus :smile:

    does look very impressive, although I didnt realise the station is in the Arsenal. Isnt that a bit of a walk from the DLR and SE stations? 
    Not at all. Turn right out of the stations and walk down to the front of the road. Cross over and you’re there.  Couple of minutes at most. No longer than it takes to switch between most tube lines in town. 
  • edited February 2022
    So March 21 then. The day after I’ve sodded off back, after my first visit over in 2.5 years. Serves me right, I hear the chorus :smile:

    does look very impressive, although I didnt realise the station is in the Arsenal. Isnt that a bit of a walk from the DLR and SE stations? 
    The date their working to is March 6, but it could end up in May, but you can see via https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/detailed/gb-nr:WWC/2022-02-14/2101?stp=WVS&show=all&order=wtt&toc=XR

    how many trains are bombing around on the central route pretty reliably, and 29 minutes Abbey Wood to Paddington is impressive
  • Rothko said:
    The date their working to is March 6, but it could end up in May, but you can see via https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/detailed/gb-nr:WWC/2022-02-14/2101?stp=WVS&show=all&order=wtt&toc=XR

    how many trains are bombing around on the central route pretty reliably, and 29 minutes Abbey Wood to Paddington is impressive
    Great. What’s the word on when it will run into Heathrow?
  • edited February 2022
    Great. What’s the word on when it will run into Heathrow?
    The official line from Crossrail is ‘Autumn ‘22’ for services from Heathrow and Reading running through to Abbey Wood
  • Rothko said:

    how many trains are bombing around on the central route pretty reliably, and 29 minutes Abbey Wood to Paddington is impressive
    12 trains an hour are running between Abbey Wood and Paddington (sometimes West Ealing).

    At weekends they are running another 12 trains per hour between Stratford and Paddington.

    This is so that test the switching of the signalling systems went entering the tunnels from East London.
  • Off_it said:
    Although in this instance you have to come out into the open and face the locals!
    Those of you with a nervous disposition can probably run it in 30 seconds!!! 🏃‍♂️ 💨  😂
  • News on testing, suspect if these are all cleared you'll get two weeks shadow running and then open. 


  • Rothko said:
    News on testing, suspect if these are all cleared you'll get two weeks shadow running and then open. 


    I am booked in for the 24 TPH Timetable Trial Operation Test at Paddington. 
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  • edited February 2022
    Try and contain yourself. It will be worth it
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR0kWfZTcrY


    Design & Architecture: Abbey Wood Elizabeth line station

  • I wonder how many minutes it would take the average walker to get from the Woolwich station to the Valley?
    Mind you walking that route would not be a pleasant experience hard by that lower road.
  • seth plum said:
    I wonder how many minutes it would take the average walker to get from the Woolwich station to the Valley?
    Mind you walking that route would not be a pleasant experience hard by that lower road.
    Walk by the river and cut inland at Anchor in Hope 
  • edited February 2022
    seth plum said:
    I wonder how many minutes it would take the average walker to get from the Woolwich station to the Valley?
    Mind you walking that route would not be a pleasant experience hard by that lower road.
    Hi Seth - as an ex Woolwich Boy you could cut along behind the main Road and take a lovely back street stroll to the beloved Valley or even a wonderful Thames Path route :)
  • The New Abbey Wood station is a thing of joy 
  • Wouldn’t the walk be a little less lovely around the south circ/ferry bit?
    I tried cycling from Erith to Greenwich but got stymied at the ferry.
  • Rothko said:
    The New Abbey Wood station is a thing of joy 
    it is lol
  • Any joy encountered arriving at AW walking through that new statin building will be instantly dismantled the moment one glimpses the environs.
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