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***** wrote:Also ... I wonder how it's going to appear on the tube map - back to a dotted line again?

I believe that they have done away with the dotted lines now. It should appear as a thick line with a symbol pointing to the notes. I bet the notes say, "Saturdays, Sundays and limited Exhibition days only"

palkanetoijala31 wrote:as i stated before geoff when u had the record t4 had to be visited by bus added lots of time did u complain then?

T4 was a temporary change. This is permanent.

To be fair, I think our precedent here is both Shorditch and the NYC record. Shorditch had a limited service which you had to accomodate into your plan. NYC has a station that only opens on certain event days and attempts need to be planned to co-incide with these events.

Both these situations suggest to me that the record will continue as it is.

The last two big resets were Shoreditch closing and T5 opening unless I've missed one. These were both network changes whereby track was added/removed. Hence no reset for Wood Lane opening.

I guess the answers to this are going to be speculation as we can't be sure what LU will do but how "special" are the services going to be? I used to travel to KO every weekday for work and there seemed to be an exhibition of some sort on most days.

They have said it will only be for "major" exhibitions. The two examples they gave were Erotica and the Great British Beer Festival.

moley wrote:

palkanetoijala31 wrote:as i stated before geoff when u had the record t4 had to be visited by bus added lots of time did u complain then?

T4 was a temporary change. This is permanent.

To be fair, I think our precedent here is both Shorditch and the NYC record. Shorditch had a limited service which you had to accomodate into your plan. NYC has a station that only opens on certain event days and attempts need to be planned to co-incide with these events.

Both these situations suggest to me that the record will continue as it is.

The last two big resets were Shoreditch closing and T5 opening unless I've missed one. These were both network changes whereby track was added/removed. Hence no reset for Wood Lane opening.

Yes i forgot about Shoreditch as well im not sure though tfl have actually stated this is a permanent change though they might find that so many people like it and bring it back after the next timetable change who knows tfl thinking my point was you had to add shoreditch in between certain times a pain yes and you had to do bit by bus which was even more of a pain.

I on my first attempt actually had someone sat at the pub telling me where the bus was at 80% of the route i had 3 chances to hit it so had a sneaky way of doing it.In New York for example there is a station called Aqueduct Raceway which is not visited unless on race days and then only from november to april so imagine trying to timetable that in to a route much worse than ken o.

greatkingrat wrote: Erotica and the Great British Beer Festival.

Ideal for tube challengers!

tubeguru wrote:

greatkingrat wrote: Erotica and the Great British Beer Festival.

Ideal for tube challengers!

What I was thinking

tubeguru wrote:Erotica and the Great British Beer Festival.

Reminds me of a Bowling for Soup song "All you need is love and beer"!

Is the Ideal Home thingy still on there?

The college I used to teach at was on Kensington High Street, some of the older looking kids went to Erotica one lunchtime and came back looking totally shocked!

Iain wrote:Is the Ideal Home thingy still on there?

No, it has moved to Earls Court now.

greatkingrat wrote:

Iain wrote:Is the Ideal Home thingy still on there?

No, it has moved to Earls Court now.

But there is a rumour that it will close once the Olympic Volleyball is out of the way in 2012 http://londonist.com/2010/01/earls_cour ... _to_cl.php

Dec 2011... first tube from Upminster gets into Baron's Court at 6:20 and the last morning train out of Olympia leaves at 6:32... according to Google it is a 13 minute walk... Sounds possible running but there is no room for error!

tractakid wrote:Dec 2011... first tube from Upminster gets into Baron's Court at 6:20 and the last morning train out of Olympia leaves at 6:32... according to Google it is a 13 minute walk... Sounds possible running but there is no room for error!

wrong thats not true!

tractakid wrote:Dec 2011... first tube from Upminster gets into Baron's Court at 6:20 and the last morning train out of Olympia leaves at 6:32... according to Google it is a 13 minute walk... Sounds possible running but there is no room for error!

More than possible as the train will arrive at West Kensington 75 seconds earlier and that you can run in 5-7 mins.

But you need to consider where you are going to finish..... Do you finish up in Buckinghamshire or down near Heathrow. How do you deal with getting back from one of them?

I'll tell you for free that if you start on the 05:09 from Upminster and aim to finish at Chesham then your time will be 16:34 or 16:04.

palkanetoijala31 wrote:

tractakid wrote:Dec 2011... first tube from Upminster gets into Baron's Court at 6:20 and the last morning train out of Olympia leaves at 6:32... according to Google it is a 13 minute walk... Sounds possible running but there is no room for error!

wrong thats not true!

Yes it is true.

Wed 4 January 2012
05:09 Upminster - Barons Court 06:20
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06:32 Kensington (Olympia) - Earl's Court 06:36