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For the benefit of anyone who was considering "doing" Rayners Lane to Uxbridge towards the end of the day, it's gonna be closing at 2100 on Sunday to Thursday from the 14th of August for refurbishment work, with replacement buses running between Rayners Lane and Ruislip via Eastcote.

Cheers,

Barry

As well as http://www.busmap.org/ for actual bus timetables, as opposed to what the TfL Journey Planner claims are the timetables, if you go to the Interactive Underground Map and click on a station, and then on Train Times, you can get a PDF of the "proper" times poster(s) for that station, including the First and Last trains one.

Hrm...Or maybe not. I've just checked Amersham and it's dated 15th December 2002, with a first train time of 0532, and Cannon Street is still shown as closed on Saturdays

Cheers,

Barry

The cafe press closure, will this affect previous orders. As I ordered mine from their before the closure but haven't recieved it, am I still likely to or not.

For the benefit of anyone who was considering "doing" Rayners Lane to Uxbridge towards the end of the day, it's gonna be closing at 2100 on Sunday to Thursday from the 14th of August for refurbishment work, with replacement buses running between Rayners Lane and Ruislip via Eastcote.

Oh, *expletive*. Where's that announced?

Hmm, I can't find any announcement anywhere...

Aha!

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/press-centre/ ... p?prID=475

Which looks like it's only Eastcote station, and I believe under Guinness Rules:

Only if a station is temporarily closed (e.g. for rebuilding, or in an emergency), or if it closes earlier or opens later than normal as a result of rebuilding work, will a non-stop pass through a station be acceptable.

a pass-though is allowed under this circumstance?

i also ordered a shirt from there and received an email that it was being made. I should receive it by midweek if it comes. I will let you know since I will probably get mine first. I cant understand why some of us may get it and not all of it.

***** wrote:If it's just Eastcote, then a pass-through is of course perfectly ok. But you've got me worried now that it IS more than that!

Well the Real-Time Page says it's just the station that's closed, with Metropolitan and Piccadilly trains non-stopping.

Cheers,

Barry

A big lesson learnt today!

My bus home was a quarter empty, meaning half the seats had NO ONE sitting on them. I sat there, comfy, with tube map, current route plan and pen on my lap working through some problems (ie, Piccadilly circus missed entirely!), during my 35 minute journey, 3 different people say next to me to ask wat I was doing!!

Lesson learnt? I should have printed the nifty leaflets explaining (with my sponsorship details on!) today and not tomorrow!!

Were these strangers of the hot, young, attractive and single girl variety?

Or were the pensioners?

Alas, I suspect the latter..

*laughing*

That is bizarrely the exact question my husband had for me when I got in!

Hi everybody, I'm taking part in the challenge next week. I also work on the District Line, and there are a couple of things you might need to know when planning your route.

First, there is an ongoing industrial dispute involving District line drivers. Over the last 7 days, this has resulted in the cancellation at certain times of one of the trains on the Olympia branch, leaving a frequency of every 30 minutes. THERE IS EVERY CHANCE THIS WILL HAPPEN NEXT THURSDAY. If so, it generally happens after the morning peak, and trains will run at 08 & 38 minutes past the hour. It can continue throught he evening peak also. The dispute can also affect trains to Richmond, causing cancellations.

Secondly, train 71 (an Edgware Road - Wimbledon train) is often cancelled for staff training. When I'm back at work later this week I will look up the times that it may not be running.

the man from Cannon Hill Lane, I've cunningly mixed my name with a user name to fool you.

Oh yeah, don't forget my lift home.

***** wrote:Alan...

hello! er, who are you then? send me an email please (geoff@*****.co.uk) so that i know who you are on my list of official participants!

if you haven't emailed me, then you're not on my list, and you won't have recieved a few emails that i've sent out to the official participants lists over the last week and a bit...

Thanks,
Geoff.

I work at the station with the big glass roof, keeping my beady eyes on all those passing through.

Alansslonep wrote:First, there is an ongoing industrial dispute involving District line drivers. Over the last 7 days, this has resulted in the cancellation at certain times of one of the trains on the Olympia branch, leaving a frequency of every 30 minutes. THERE IS EVERY CHANCE THIS WILL HAPPEN NEXT THURSDAY. If so, it generally happens after the morning peak, and trains will run at 08 & 38 minutes past the hour. It can continue throught he evening peak also. The dispute can also affect trains to Richmond, causing cancellations.

Two questions -- is that 08 and 38 from Olympia, and when does the "morning peak" finish? (I think my route is OK anyway, but...)