No Connection At Croydon
On Sunday, I wanted to go from Dalston Junction station to East Croydon station to get to Tattenham Corner.tat
The first train to appear was on to West Croydon, so I thought I’d get it and then take a tram across Croydon.
But I’d forgotten it was a Sunday and the tram stop exit of the station was closed, as the pictures show.
Surely, if the station is open and the trams are running the tram stop exit should be open.
Starting To Program Again!
I have had, this idea for a mobile phone app and as before my stroke, I was a more than capable hack programmer, I think I might program it myself.
I notice there are systems that allow the creation of apps, that work on all platforms, so feel that this would be the way to go, as if it’s one thing I hate it’s having anything to do with Apples and their alien money-grabbing ideas.
I don’t even like the fruit!
Any help would be appreciated!
The New And Updated Platforms 13 to 16 At Manchester Piccadilly
I have been looking to see if I can find anything more about what is happening to update platforms 13/14 and create new platforms 15/16 at Manchester Piccadilly station.
I found this image on the Network Rail web site.
Proposed Platforms 13-16 At Manchester Piccadilly Station
I think it shows the way that Network Rail are thinking.
- A second entrance to the station.
- Does the entrance lead underneath all of the platforms?
- Lots of escalators.
- A proper gateway station for Manchester, opening on to an open space.
- Is that a public space like a restaurant on top of the tower?
The picture does show that there are possibilities to create a very good building to serve platforms 13 to 16.
Masts Are Sprouting On The Goblin
I took these pictures of the new electrification masts going up on the Gospel Oak to Barking Line (GOBlin)
The piles seem to be very strong, but the masts are a touch more dainty, than those on the Great Western Main Line.
Abbey Wood To Romford In Forty Minutes
I didn’t believe this figure when I calculated it yesterday, so I’m laying it out properly.
Crossrail have said that the two Eastern branches of the line;Abbey Wood and Shenfield will both run a dozen trains an hour.
- Whitechapel to Abbey Wood would take 15 minutes
- Whitechapel to Canary Wharf would take 3 minutes
- Whitechapel to Romford would take 24 minutes
- Whitechapel to Shenfield would take 38 minutes
- Whitechapel to Stratford would take 5 minutes
These times are from Crossrail’s journey time calculator.
But obviously, when changing trains at Whitechapel to go from say Abbey Wood to Romford, you’d have to wait for the next train going the other way.
So as there are twelve trains an hour in the peak, that would mean a wait of up to five minutes.
Or would it?
All the trains on Crossrail will be tightly controlled to keep to an exact schedule, so that twenty-four trains an hour can go through the core tunnel between Whitechapel and Paddington. Think Victoria Line with full-size trains carrying fifteen hundred people a train.
So if it was timed that trains from Abbey Wood turned up at Whitechapel at 0, 5, 10, 15 etc. minutes past the hour and trains left Whitechapel for Shenfield at say 1, 6, 11, 16 etc. you’d have a minute to walk a few metres across the platform to await the arrival of your onward train.
Trains from Shenfield could arrive at Whitechapel at 2, 7, 12, 17 etc. with trains leaving for Abbey Wood at 3, 8, 13, 18 etc.
Obviously, the flow of trains to and from the West would have to be at precise frequency of twenty-four trains per hour or one train every two and a half minutes.
I think trains could be timed to the second!
These train times of mine are just speculation, but I can’t see why the interchange at Whitechapel needs to take more than a minute.
So adding up the times to Abbey Wood and Romford from Whitechapel with a minute for the change gives 15+24+1 = 40.
Stratford to Canary Wharf would take 3+5+1 = 9, which is the same time as on the Jubilee Line.
The East of London doesn’t know the revolution that will be happening to their lives.
Whitechapel station will truly be the Jewel In The East and one of the most important transport interchanges in the UK, let alone London.
The Anonymous Widower 