This makes it a single train commute for me, which is great, but pisser about losing the direct Victoria trains (especially at weekends, when there seem to be none).
― stet, Thursday, 29 November 2012 12:20 (eleven years ago) link
I had no idea that the inner loop (South London line) from Victoria to London Bridge was closing. Bit of a pain for regular users of Wandsworth Rd and Clapham High St. Also, the once-a-day parliamentary train that runs up to Kensington Olympia is finally being withdrawn from those stations too.
I've now downloaded a spreadsheet of station usage. Someone stop me.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 29 November 2012 12:40 (eleven years ago) link
Peckham Rye gets more than Aberdeen!
― stet, Thursday, 29 November 2012 12:44 (eleven years ago) link
I'm assuming the closure of that inner loop means fewer trains from London Bridge down to Crystal Palace (and beyond) as well? That's going to fuck up my commute if so.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 29 November 2012 12:49 (eleven years ago) link
Not sure the inner loop closure will affect LB-CP, and there's no increased capacity on the stretch south of New Cross (as there was when the original extension came into service), so it should be OK. When Overground services first started between Palace/West Croydon and Dalston, there was a reduction of trains in/out of London Bridge along the Forest Hill/Sydenham line, leading to the dreaded 25min hole in southbound rush hour services from LB which I still occasionally find myself falling into.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 29 November 2012 13:02 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah I got my loops mixed up, this is the one that goes through South Bermondsey and Peckham Rye and places, right?
― Matt DC, Thursday, 29 November 2012 13:26 (eleven years ago) link
The wikipedia journey starting at Parliamentary trains is fab. Eg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gainsborough_Central_railway_station - managed to have fewer passengers than a station which was closed and had no tracks.
― stet, Thursday, 29 November 2012 14:34 (eleven years ago) link
We followed the same route, Stet!
MDC: yep.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 29 November 2012 14:38 (eleven years ago) link
Anyone else get caught out by the arriva bus strike this morning?
― sktsh, Thursday, 29 November 2012 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
the extension of the Northern line to Battersea
I had no idea this was even being considered
― all the people on the right, boogaloo (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 29 November 2012 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
I thought I had escaped bus strike troubles, but then I waited 25 minutes for my bus only for it to drive past me. RIP evening plans.
― Shane Richie Junior (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 29 November 2012 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
Ah, this explains why somebody who was supposed to meet me this morning waited 50 minutes for a bus which never came. I thought he was exaggerating.
― all the people on the right, boogaloo (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 29 November 2012 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
again with my annual commute i find myself asking how this shit is acceptable or even possible
clapham junction to high st kensington - FOUR stops - has just taken me 70 MINUTES
i stayed in battersea to make the commute easier and it would have taken less time to do it from hackney FFS
― lex pretend, Thursday, 7 February 2013 10:48 (eleven years ago) link
i've heard many reports that the new southern overground line is a bit of a shambles, journeys involving it invariably taking 30 mins longer than they should and such.
― hot young stalin (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 7 February 2013 10:51 (eleven years ago) link
also, inexplicably doesn't allow you to indicate that you're avoiding zone 1 by using it.
― hot young stalin (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 7 February 2013 10:52 (eleven years ago) link
oh you motherfucker
victoria station is where the party is right now
― imago, Thursday, 7 February 2013 11:27 (eleven years ago) link
Overground has been punctual whenever I've used it, which has only been in extremis because the thousands of stops make it too damn slow and infrequent even if it's on time.
― stet, Thursday, 7 February 2013 12:14 (eleven years ago) link
!!!!!!
- 24-hour tube at the weekends YAY- every ticket office to shut and 750 jobs cut BOO
so sly to announce both in the same package
― lex pretend, Thursday, 21 November 2013 10:38 (ten years ago) link
wtf
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 21 November 2013 11:26 (ten years ago) link
that is amazing news about the weekend. thought i would never see the day!
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 21 November 2013 11:27 (ten years ago) link
horrible news about the ticket windows though, fuck. this means that the lit-up "tickets and assistance" windows will be darkened forever??
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 21 November 2013 11:31 (ten years ago) link
i just had to use one this morning actually; i topped up online before i left the house and the turnstile said "PLEASE SEEK ASSISTANCE" so i went to the window and the guy asked when i did the online top-up; "a half hour ago, i guess?" i answered and he was like "oh mate, it takes like 24 hours to register the top-up, i don't know why there's no message on the website to that effect, we get tons of confusion about that"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 21 November 2013 11:33 (ten years ago) link
i for one look forward to the tube being like the new year's eve tube every fucking weekend
― thighs without a face (c sharp major), Thursday, 21 November 2013 11:34 (ten years ago) link
also love the line "more tube station staff will be visible" when what it means is "tube staff will have to hang out in the ticket hall to run people through using the machines because somehow the human dignity of being allowed to sit at a desk behind a window is too much for them"
― thighs without a face (c sharp major), Thursday, 21 November 2013 11:38 (ten years ago) link
tube staff roaming randomly in stations is about the most idiotic idea i've ever heard
― lex pretend, Thursday, 21 November 2013 11:43 (ten years ago) link
Had a discussion with a station attendant about this very subject early last summer. You think we're cross? How on Earth are they going to swing this at a busy interchange like Holborn, with all the gormless tourists and commuters pouring in all day, every day, I do not know - but I am so happy that I'll be able to go East without having Cinderella issues.
― hatcat marnell (suzy), Thursday, 21 November 2013 11:44 (ten years ago) link
was in a station a few weeks back and all the ticket machines had crashed but friend needed to clear oyster card defecit to travel anywhere else. member of staff at kiosk meant this could be done quickly and easily and hard to see a good solution without one - just go to next station in the hope that their ticket machines were working? no mate
― nashwan, Thursday, 21 November 2013 12:14 (ten years ago) link
gormless tourists
This being a substantial spanner in the works
― Thomas K Amphong (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 November 2013 13:39 (ten years ago) link
Suggest basic training as part of passport control entry to uk: standing on the right on escalators, spatial awareness reminders if you're wearing a backpack etc
― mohel hell (Bob Six), Thursday, 21 November 2013 13:47 (ten years ago) link
There's no avoiding them at Holborn. Ever. Standing two abreast on the escalator, stopping dead in front of the barriers as if they're about to jump through the looking-glass, dithering in transfers so that I narrowly miss my own connections, asking directions to the British Museum when it is one block to the west....
xp ARRRRGH RUCKSACKS ON FUCKSTICKS
― hatcat marnell (suzy), Thursday, 21 November 2013 13:54 (ten years ago) link
haha you london types
― conrad, Thursday, 21 November 2013 14:01 (ten years ago) link
Yeah I use Holborn daily and it's a nightmare, people crowding out the entrance to the platform in a huge group or due to baggage is another classic. Some days you see it and think "oh shit, obv major delays" then five metres to the right or left the platform is totally clear, once you've fought your way out.
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Thursday, 21 November 2013 14:02 (ten years ago) link
"don't just stop walking the minute you get on the platform as if there aren't hundreds of people behind you" is a pretty major one imho
― http://i26.tinypic.com/2udyu5e.jpg (stevie), Thursday, 21 November 2013 14:09 (ten years ago) link
People stepping off an escalator and just standing there while dozens of people slam into the back of them.
― fashionably early Christmas themed display name (snoball), Thursday, 21 November 2013 14:13 (ten years ago) link
Said this a million times but people who stop walking on the escalator when it goes flat... why? I just don't understand this widespread habit.
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Thursday, 21 November 2013 14:15 (ten years ago) link
I can understand that people might want to step off the escalator with their dominant foot, especially on those escalators with the flat bit at the end, but why not learn to use your non-dominant foot?
― fashionably early Christmas themed display name (snoball), Thursday, 21 November 2013 14:19 (ten years ago) link
Humans have bilateral symmetry, people, use it!
^^^ T shirt slogan for the taking there, to be sold in tourist shops on Oxford Street instead of those endless 'Keep Calm & Buy More Tourist Tat" things.
― fashionably early Christmas themed display name (snoball), Thursday, 21 November 2013 14:20 (ten years ago) link
people stopping walking on the escalator as it starts to flatten generally happens because the people worry that they'll get the depth of the stair wrong as it narrows imo
― thighs without a face (c sharp major), Thursday, 21 November 2013 14:24 (ten years ago) link
hence they dither
I guess if someone is in heels or whatever, but I am sure men do this plenty too.
Also they kind of stop even after it's completely flat...
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Thursday, 21 November 2013 14:27 (ten years ago) link
If I slow down near the top of the escalator, I always cut over to the right and join the folks in le standing.
― hatcat marnell (suzy), Thursday, 21 November 2013 14:28 (ten years ago) link
mother of god
― veneer timber (imago), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 19:35 (ten years ago) link
This is hilariously awful.
The announcements make it sound like the end times have happened somewhere past Clapham, now everyone's dead and only the robots are left to apologise for the inconvenience caused.
― stet, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 20:25 (ten years ago) link
South East London is in full transport apocalypse, amazing I only missed 5mins of the football
― veneer timber (imago), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 20:35 (ten years ago) link
what's going on then? surprised i haven't seen mention of it on twitter, maybe everybody's dead.
― Merdeyeux, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 20:38 (ten years ago) link
NE was pretty bad as well, Hackney totally congested, took me 2hrs to travel 6 miles home
― I like to think I have learnt a thing or two about music (Neil S), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 20:44 (ten years ago) link
There was a fire at London bridge signal house, which closed it. Then Victoria closed because of the crowds. Then Overground had a signal failure at Willesden. Only needed snow, tbh.
Some good pix of pissed-off London bridgers on twitter
― stet, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 20:52 (ten years ago) link
It was actually only mildly worse than when I choose (rather than being forced) to take the Tube/bus home - i.e., letting multiple Northern Line trains go at CX or Kennington as they're packed. Bus from Brixton was pretty bad too.
Poor sods heading for Kent or Sussex didn't have the luxury of other options though.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 22:00 (ten years ago) link
http://usvsth3m.com/post/74285062011/you-wont-believe-why-the-victoria-line-is-currently
?!
― caek, Thursday, 23 January 2014 17:28 (ten years ago) link
this must be a viral for something, right?
― caek, Thursday, 23 January 2014 17:32 (ten years ago) link