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Author: Paul ScottPaul Scott
Date: Dec 26, 2008 14:25
> I doubt it - more likely connected with the BAA funding of the line
> and the arrangements with Network Rail to maintain it.....BAA Airtrack
> from Staines to T5 will purely be Airtrack I understand, for some
> years until again, it's opened up for other TOCs to bd to run services
> along it. UNtil then, it'll be two from Waterloo & Two from Reading
> every hour. Once it gets contracted & built, that is.
And two from Guildford.
Paul
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Author: Roland PerryRoland Perry
Date: Dec 26, 2008 01:28
In message
<77088917-9c57-4b8c-9dd7-51144d9994b8@ o40g2000prn.googlegroups.com>, at
15:26:46 on Tue, 23 Dec 2008, John B johnband.org> remarked:>(seriously: if HEx is still running as a Heathrow-Paddington shuttle
>when Crossrail opens, I'll eat an entire hat. Quite how they'll
>arrange it to go through is another question...)
So where are you expecting it to go through to? All the way to
Shenfield, perhaps? If it's using up Crossrail "all station stopper"
paths east of London, won't that dilute the number of stoppers west of
London when the HEx "escapes" onto the fast tracks at Paddington?
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Roland Perry
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Author: rosenstielrosenstiel
Date: Dec 25, 2008 08:34
> and a cheaper *Off-Peak* Day Return only available for
> use *after 0930* weekdays (and all the time at weekends and public
> holidays).
That rule varies. From Cambridge, for example it is for arrival in London
after 1000 weekdays but only for Day Returns, not Returns (formerly Saver
Returns) which do follow the 0930 rule for some reason.
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Colin Rosenstiel
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Author: rosenstielrosenstiel
Date: Dec 25, 2008 08:34
> The advertised Oyster customer services number is an 0845 number so
> it's not premium rate - 0845 being charged at 'local rate', though I
> don't think these numbers are included in any bundled 'free' calls to
> landline numbers. There is however a London landline number that one
> can use instead, which is 020 7227 7886.
08r45 is now quite expensive for mobile phone users, especially if they
get calls to 01/02/03 landlines bundled effectively for free.
I gave the 020 7227 7886 number out on this newsgroup. Did you get it from
an official source or from me?
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Colin Rosenstiel
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Author: rosenstielrosenstiel
Date: Dec 25, 2008 08:34
> That is indeed the case. Some county Borough remained united with
> their "parent" county for police purposes (other did not) but in
> the case of East and West Ham this was academic as they were all
> covered by the Met.
County Boroughs in general remained parts of their geographic counties.
They were just separate for administrative purposes, like parts of some
counties, e.g. East and West Suffolk, Cambs and the Isle of Ely, etc.
> I think that the only other County Borough within present day
> London was Croydon. Anyone know better?
Yes, they were the only three.
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Colin Rosenstiel
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Author: rosenstielrosenstiel
Date: Dec 25, 2008 08:34
>>> (The term Metropolitan Borough was of course resurrected in 1974
>>> for the subdivisions of the new Metropolitan counties outside
>>> London.)
>>
>>Sort of. The 1974 creations are Metropolitan Districts in law, even
>>though most have the status of borough (and many the status of city).
>
> I *think* they all do now, actually. (I'm sure someone will now
> find a MD that isn't!)
There are lots of MDs that are not Cities but you may be right that all
have the status of Borough, if not City.
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Author: Edward Cowling London UKEdward Cowling London UK
Date: Dec 25, 2008 05:25
I wonder which part of our safe a secure tube system will be vandalised
by kids with spray cans this year ?
Thank God Al Qaeda haven't infiltrated the Graffiti gang :-)
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Edward Cowling "The Spice Must Flow !!"
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