Olympia Shuttle
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Picture on photobucket if anyone is interested!
http://i1063.photobucket.com/albums/t51 ... /Iwish.jpg
http://i1063.photobucket.com/albums/t51 ... /Iwish.jpg
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The prize is a lawsuit from LU for re-producing their map without permission.
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Just how easy do you want the record to be?
Held some Alternative Challenge records for a long time.
Doesn't any more.
Doesn't any more.
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Could I just ask people not to post images of the tube map on the site, modified or otherwise. It only results in nasty emails from lawyers. Thanks.
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- tractakid
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*insert boasting about notable tube accomplishments here*
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Did you photoshop those or something?
1 FNC Completion (PB: 17:18:18 with G Bryant, A Chilcraft, I MacNaughton)
4 Zone Ones (PB: 03:00:35 with G Bryant)
15 R15s (PB: 01:55:48 with T Cooling and R Jackson)
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4 Zone Ones (PB: 03:00:35 with G Bryant)
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11 All Lines (PB: 00:44:03)
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Yes, but the big drawback of this network is that everyone is going to have times within a few seconds of each other. I'm happy to come out of retirement to set the Covent Garden to Leicester Square record if you like though.
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You can't do that as you'd look sillytubeguru wrote:Yes, but the big drawback of this network is that everyone is going to have times within a few seconds of each other. I'm happy to come out of retirement to set the Covent Garden to Leicester Square record if you like though.
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Yeah, you kind of put yourself into knip there. Rather unfortunate.
And HT, I used Paint. I got dem skills like that.
And HT, I used Paint. I got dem skills like that.
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Do you know what is the source for the dates when these trains may run, as they do not appear in the Journey Planner?greatkingrat wrote:The weekday Olympia exhibition service is currently scheduled to run on
24/28 Sept
26/30/31 Oct
1/2/9/15/16 Nov
17/18/19/20/21 Dec
I can't make the dates in September anyway. End of October, early November looked more promising for me, until I looked at TfL's advanced works calendar, which says the Central Line is closed between Newbury Park and Grange Hill for nearly two weeks from 23 October to 2 November inclusive.
Also, the same works calendar http://www.tfl.gov.uk/livetravelnews/pl ... fault.aspx suggests that there are no closures on Saturday 13 October, yet the C2C website says there are no trains between Barking and Upminster (including the District Line) that day.
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The dates came from a FOI request at http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/k ... a_services
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Thanks. I can't but think that with the minimal publicity they are giving these services (i.e. not even in JP) they will soon withdraw them due to lack of use.greatkingrat wrote:The dates came from a FOI request at http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/k ... a_services
Also on my last two visits to Earls Court I've noticed right at the front end of the platform there is an electronic information board, which supplements the main antiquated next train arrow boards above each platform. This shows the next train from each platform and estimates of time until arrival of the next trains to each destination. However, on both occasions I've observed it, it has failed to acknowledge the existence on the Olympia service, even when it's sitting in the platform.
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It's a bit old I know, but I've just come across this internal TfL document released under FoI:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/6 ... CT.PDF.pdf
which confirms in Section 3.2 that TfL believe they have a legal obligation to run at least one District Line train per week to or from Olympia, and in Section 5.4 that when the service was amended last December one of the options considered was just running one train a day into service via Olympia throughout the week (i.e. no weekend or exhibition services).
So it looks like the prospect of complete closure is remote, but an even more minimal service is not, which no doubt in their wisdom GWR would still require Olympia to be visited.
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/6 ... CT.PDF.pdf
which confirms in Section 3.2 that TfL believe they have a legal obligation to run at least one District Line train per week to or from Olympia, and in Section 5.4 that when the service was amended last December one of the options considered was just running one train a day into service via Olympia throughout the week (i.e. no weekend or exhibition services).
So it looks like the prospect of complete closure is remote, but an even more minimal service is not, which no doubt in their wisdom GWR would still require Olympia to be visited.
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Hmmm, it seems like Olympia wasn't even good enough to have a bronze medal winning horse name put in its place! In fact... it has disappeared from this map altogether. TFL practicing the new permanent map design?!
http://shop.tfl.gov.uk/ImageCache/Produ ... FFF.0.jpeg
http://shop.tfl.gov.uk/ImageCache/Produ ... FFF.0.jpeg
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oh dear! That's fairly poor! It is sort-of on the edge of that section though, so could warrant being cut out by not quite fitting in, design-wise...tractakid wrote:Hmmm, it seems like Olympia wasn't even good enough to have a bronze medal winning horse name put in its place! In fact... it has disappeared from this map altogether. TFL practicing the new permanent map design?!
http://shop.tfl.gov.uk/ImageCache/Produ ... FFF.0.jpeg
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