Crossrail Will Be Making Noise On Moorgate
I received an e-mail from Crossrail today entitled Access Passage Under Moorgate.
This is said.
We are making progress with the tunnel connections between the Crossrail Moorgate ticket hall and the station platforms.
From the evening of Wednesday 9 November until Saturday 12 November 2016, we will break out the connection between the top of the escalator shaft and the access passage to Moorgate.
As we are breaking out concrete, there is likely to be some audible ground borne noise and vibration for occupants of nearby buildings and we apologise in advance for any inconvenience caused.
Hopefully, I won’t hear it a couple of miles to the North.
Seriously, though, I don’t think you can get fairer than that, especially, as the works at Moorgate so far, don’t seem to have been particularly disruptive.
The e-mail also pointed me to this cross-section of the station and the works.
East-West Cross-Section Of Moorgate Crossrail Station
Note.
- Two banks of escalators are used to descend to Crossrail at Moorgate station.
- It is a similar arrangement at Liverpool Street station.
- If you’re walking between the two stations, a good proportion ofthe journet wil be on escalators.
- I think that the two smaller tunnels running under Moorgate and below the lower bank of escalators are the Northern Line tunnels.
It looks like the design has followed the rule of trying to keep to using only North-South and East-West routes for the tunnels.
A Meal With Little Washing Up
Supper tonight was a Marks and Spencer Gastropub Chicken Hash.
Note.
- I bought the meal in Waterloo station.
- It was cooked in the oven.
- I poured the meal onto the plate.
- When you live alone, you can use bread to wipe the plate.
The only washing up was the plate and the irons. I suppose I could have licked it clean!
Keeping Your Wiring Tidy
I have form in this area.
- One of my first jobs was designing and building small pieces of control electronics for industrial plant.
- I built small tuners for a company in Felixstowe.
- Later at ICI, I built instruments for installation on chemical plants.
So I learned from about sixteen, that your wiring always has to be neat and colour-coded.
I also remember at ICI, how Neil Saville developed a computerised design program in the late 1960s, to layout and colour-code the wires in a chemical plant.
So I was drawn to this article in Rail Engineer, which is entitled Safety, sustainability and security polymer cable troughing.
The article is about Trojan Services, based in Hove, who have developed various cable troughs and other products for the rail industry, made out of recycled polypropylene.
The article is very much a must-read, which shows how good design can transform the most mundane of products.
The pictures show some typical cable ducts.
SBB To Sell Bitcoin
The title of this post is the same as that of an article in Global Rail News.
If you don’t know; SBB stands for Swiss Federal Railways.
It’s an interesting development to say the least!
Especially, when you read the last paragraph.
And you can’t buy SBB train tickets using your shiny new currency, it isn’t an accepted payment method by SBB.
I wonder how long it will be before, I can buy and use bitcoin on a UK rail station?
The Anonymous Widower 