travelcards on oyster question
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:04:24 +0100
I'm running around south London tomorrow, croydon and down to cheam,
as there will be alot of it on NR trains I need a travelcard for the
day, can I get my local shop to load a 1-6 1day travel card onto my
oyster or do I have to go old-school piece of card?
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Mark Varley
www.MarkVarleyPhoto.co.uk
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Oyster card hack
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:27:23 +0100
"Details of how to copy the Oyster cards used on London's transport network
can be published, a Dutch judge has ruled. "
See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7516869.stm
MaxB
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Re: Petition to stop overcrowding on public transport
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:39 +0100 (BST)
In article
<f70c275b-06ec-4204-85a7-5f28eb864d47@e39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
thagor2008@googlemail.com () wrote:
> Chalk , sand , whatever. Point is theres nothing that can't be
> tunnelled through now as long as they money is available. If they
> think sand is an issue they should go ask the Egyptions how t ...
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Re: Petition to stop overcrowding on public transport
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:39 +0100 (BST)
In article
<8cfe7bad-274f-4f00-9975-086f55bc144c@56g2000hsm.googlegroups.com>,
thagor2008@googlemail.com () wrote:
> And a couple of new tube lines is hardly going to have all the
> commuters from the whole of south london abandoning southern region
> in droves and more than the northern line in clapham means ...
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What happened to the hybrid buses?
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:54:09 -0700 (PDT)
Weren't we supposed to be getting some hybrid buses running on the
streets Real Soon Now about a year ago? They were to be powered by
electric motors with a small diesel engine to charge the batteries
AFAIR. Are they out there now or still in the design stage or did they
get the boot along with Comrade Ken?
B20 ...
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Weekend LU trainboard PA notes engineering
Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:11:51 +0100
In the recent past, I have complained when trainboard PA advertises
interchanges that do not exist - mainly due to engineering closures.
While travelling this weekend, 2 District trains reported absence of
Jubilee and Victoria lines at Westminster and Victoria, a southbound
Northern line train reported the Jubi ...
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Escaped Circle Line train at Aldgate East
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:17:55 +0100
At about 07.40 on Sunday morning 20/07/08, I saw a westbound train at
Aldgate East. The destination on the front was "CIRCLE LINE". There was
no mention of it on the platform train describer. The PA sounded
something akin to: "This is a Circle Line service via Liverpool Street".
Where might it have been parke ...
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Re: Amersham
Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:36 +0100 (BST)
In article
<60c71d6f-975e-428d-8c01-c86398598cf8@d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
thagor2008@googlemail.com () wrote:
> On 20 Jul, 21:46, "Richard J." <rjnews0...@blueukder.co.yon> wrote:
> > If you think that a total of 4 tph from Amersham (including Chiltern)
> > is insufficient, are you suggesting that London c ...
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Panorama - BAA invented ?green? jumbo to help win Heathrow case
Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:53:53 -0700 (PDT)
Monday night (21/7/2008) - BBC1 Panorama will be about Heathrow
expansion.
The programme will unearth new evidence about the way in which BAA and
the Department for Transport colluded over the air pollution
figures.
Some of this is trailed into today?s Sunday Times.
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BAA invented ?green? jumb ...
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Re: Petition to stop overcrowding on public transport
Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:18:15 -0700 (PDT)
On 19 Jul, 21:48, rosenst...@cix.co.uk (Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:
> In article
> <23487e07-9123-417a-b08b-2dd434ef6...@e53g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>,
>
> thagor2...@googlemail.com () wrote:
> > The its-difficult-to-tunnel excuse no longer holds water in the
> > 21st century
>
> So we have new geology in the 21s ...
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