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Latimer Road Closure

9th October 2014
 
Latimer Road Closure

Latimer Road Closure

It is frustrating that we can find nothing about this on the TfL website, and that the only way that we knew about it was by seeing a poster at Hammersmith tube station the other day.

Latimer Road will be half-closed throughout most of October as you won’t be able to get on or off an eastbound (towards Baker Street) train for several weeks whilst work is being done.

It was only a couple of years ago that the station was closed completely for several months whilst they extended the platforms, and now it’s being part closed again …

 

This post categorised under: Engineering
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Gospel Oak Ticket Hall

7th October 2014
 

We passed through Gospel Oak station last week to find that the new ticket hall which they’ve been building for several months is now in place.  It’s opened up a large space – about three times bigger than it was before – with over twice the number of barriers that there were before to cope with the increased number of passengers now passing through this station.

What with the lifts, and the new coffee shop on Platform 2/3, Gospel Oak is a much improved station than what it was just 18 months ago!

Gospel Oak Ticket Hall

Gospel Oak Ticket Hall

This post categorised under: Overground
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Mill Hill and beyond

5th October 2014
 

We do like an old map here at Station Master so it was nice to stumble upon this LNER map on a preserved carriage the other day, showing how steam train services used to run beyond Mill Hill East station to Edgware, and of course how train services used to run to Alexander Palace also calling at Cranley Gardens and Muswell Hill.  If it were not for the war, they could have been Northern Line stations …

LNER map

LNER map

This post categorised under: Alternative Tube Maps / History
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Very Accessible

3rd October 2014
 

Yesterday TfL ran their first ever Accessibility Exhibition down at London’s ExCeL centre, and we popped down in the afternoon to see what was on offer and catch up with some familiar faces.

Most familiar was our friend Christiane Link from Transport for All – who were all celebrating the fact that just that morning an extra £19 million had been agreed to make all Crossrail stations step free.

Christiane

Christiane

This is for where the new Crossrail line is taking over existing stations where there currently are no lifts, and the original plans for Crossrail did not make any provision for them.  Transport for All (amongst others) campaigned hard against this and the good news now is that all London Crossrail stations will have step-free access. (There are still three outside of London which are being negotiated).

(Read more here on Londonist)

There was also the news that another £75 million had become available to make more stations on the tube network such as Mill Hill East, Newbury Park, Osterley, West Brompton and White City accessible.

There was a whole range of information about accessible service and future transport services coming to London, something that caught our eye was the artists impression of what Greenford will look when the new inclinator is finally installed and running next year.

Greenford Inclinator

Greenford Inclinator

 

This post categorised under: Accessibility / Escalators
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The fastest way off a train

1st October 2014
 

It’s rush hour. There are loads of people on the train, and you really want a seat when you get on that train.  But you’ve been told to let people off the train first – and when that seldom happens – there is a pattern that forms that commuters make.

EVERYONE hogs around the door leaving a thin channel ‘one person wide’ to let people off the train, in single file – like this:

Letting people off of a train

Letting people off of a train

But there is a better way. What if, everyone gave MORE space to people getting off of the train – say, enough to let more than one person off at a time.  People would get off the train faster, and those waiting to get on would then be able to board sooner.

A better way of letting people off the train

A better way of letting people off the train

It’s never going to happen obviously, because you’ve still got the complete arseholes that push their way onto a train immediately without waiting for others to get off first, so if we can’t even master that basic rule, we’re never going to be able to get to grips with something more advanced like this.

(Part inspired by Brendan Neslon – How to get a seat on an Overground train)

This post categorised under: Fun
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Bakerloo Proposals

30th September 2014
 

A consultation is now open for proposals to the extension of the Bakerloo Line to head further into south east London, the BBC ran a story this morning.

Whilst there’s a nice graphic of the proposed stations, none of them were in ‘tube map’ style, so we put something together as to how it may look on the tube map.

New Bakerloo Map?

New Bakerloo Map?

This post categorised under: Alternative Tube Maps / Future services
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Race the Tube … in a wheelchair

30th September 2014
 

We love this! Except … for one small caveat. Following on from Race the Tube the other week where someone ran between Mansion House and Cannon Street station and made the same train, Anthony in this video in his wheelchair attempts the same thing – the obvious thing being that the stairs make it not possible for him to make the train. Watch the video …

Except that is shows him unable to get down the stairs at Cannon Street station, for some reason avoiding the fact that he wouldn’t have been able to get out of Mansion House station in the first place where there are 24 steps up from the platform to ticket hall area, and then 24 steps again to get from the ticket hall to street level.

We know the point it’s making, but it could have been made sooner! And much more accurate if it had shown him not being able to even get out of the starting station in the first place …

This post categorised under: Accessibility / Video
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Union Street

28th September 2014
 

From today’s Guardian. One “tube” station you’ve never heard of before!

Union Street

Union Street

This post categorised under: Disused Stations / Secret trains
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Tube trains back to Ongar

26th September 2014
 

Celebrating the fact that it’s been 20 years since the Epping to Ongar line closed at the end of the Central Line, a tube train returned to the rails today on this part of the network. Today and all weekend, a 3-car 1960 stock Craven set will travel back on the line as part of the Epping to Ongar “End of tube” special event.

We popped up today, and although we went to see the tube stock, it’s always nice to see Met 1 and bit of steam – here at North Weald, where they have installed classic LU roundels just for this special event – this signs will disappear at the end of Sunday! So go now for photo opportunities if you want one …

North Weald Steam

North Weald Steam

This post categorised under: Disused Stations
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Old Oak Overground

25th September 2014
 

Did you miss this?  It seems there is a consultation running on whether there should be a new Overground station as part of the redevelopment of Old Oak Common.

“A number of proposals are being developed in the Old Oak Common area which impact on local transport needs and strengthen the case for a new Overground Station in the area” – says the website, and basically they are asking local people whether they would like an new Overground station on this stretch of track or not.

You can read the full proposals and consultation on this website.

Old Oak Overground

Old Oak Overground

This post categorised under: Future services / Overground
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