Loughborough Junction chitter-chatter
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bimble
floofy
some photos from last night. It was really special atmosphere, totally joyful with children centre stage (and on the decks). A reminder of why public space is so important. Went on till 11 when a police van turned up and everything was dismantled without complaint. The photos don't do justice at all to the man with the jamaica bike and the two guys in orange and purple were fantastic, had a perfectly honed duet. The dj in white t shirt is 11 years old, might not have all the mixing skills yet but made up for it with bombastic attitude.
bimble
floofy
But then we'd have met and there's no way you could live up to my imagined version of teuchter, so its a good thing you missed it. I picture you with a sort of walrus moustache and a penny farthing bicycle for some reason.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Angellic
Well-Known Member
bimble
floofy
I asked someone what it was about and she said it was that, yes. The only royal wedding thing i saw was one small girl holding a union jack flag with harry & meg's faces on it.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Pleasantly surprised by the new thameslink timetable which started today. I had thought that nothing much would change through loughborough junction. But it seems like it's been regularised to a train every 15 minutes throughout the whole day - instead of switching to every 30 minutes in the late evening like it used to. That's quite a significant improvement. I think the last train from town is slightly later now, arriving at 2330. Would be nice if they ran later than that but hey ho.
Also: it turns out that departure times from LJ - in both directions - happen to be at 00, 15, 30 and 45, consistently throughout the entire day with a couple of extras slotted in in the peaks. So nice and easy to remember.
Time will tell if the new timetable makes the service any more reliable.
Also: it turns out that departure times from LJ - in both directions - happen to be at 00, 15, 30 and 45, consistently throughout the entire day with a couple of extras slotted in in the peaks. So nice and easy to remember.
Time will tell if the new timetable makes the service any more reliable.
ChrisSouth
Well-Known Member
I haven't used it today, but I also like the regularity. However, there are now fewer trains going north (not just terminating at Blackfriars) in the key 7.45 to 8.30 commuting window.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
I was just checking about north-bound in the late afternoon. There used to be a massive service gap between about 4.50 pm and 5.40 pm. This seems to have been put right after 24 years! If they run to timetable there will now be trains every 15 minutes without a service gap at all.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Previously going north in the morning peak you had:
0726
0734
0752
0800
0804
0818
0824
0835
Now it's
0719
0730
0745
0749
0800
0815
0819
0830
Doesn't seem hugely different to me.
The 19/49 ones only go to Blackfriars yes. But northbound it's a very easy change at blackfriars. Don't need to go down/up the stairs. And trains north from Blackfriars will become tube-like frequency so you'll not have to wait more than a few mins.
As I've said on here many times before... they should all stop at Blackfriars. Then we could have a reliable service. Unfortunately there was a successful campaign against this.
0726
0734
0752
0800
0804
0818
0824
0835
Now it's
0719
0730
0745
0749
0800
0815
0819
0830
Doesn't seem hugely different to me.
The 19/49 ones only go to Blackfriars yes. But northbound it's a very easy change at blackfriars. Don't need to go down/up the stairs. And trains north from Blackfriars will become tube-like frequency so you'll not have to wait more than a few mins.
As I've said on here many times before... they should all stop at Blackfriars. Then we could have a reliable service. Unfortunately there was a successful campaign against this.
ChrisSouth
Well-Known Member
And that didn't work this morning. 7.45 cancelled and connecting trains at Blackfriars were delayed. I don't know which tube line you travel on, but I don't see this as a tube like frequency.
davidaheath
Well-Known Member
Can we talk about midnight dog man?
Actually, it's more like 2am dog man, somewhere around Coldharbour Lane by the junction to Herne Hill Road and Flaxman. I don't know what it is because I'm like several houses down and I can only lean so far out the window before I knock over my succulents, but almost every night now I'll be woken up by a dog barking every five seconds. It'll stop for maybe a minute or so, but then start barking again. I can't see the dog or the accompanying human, but it sounds like they're just down by the main road, maybe outside Costcutter or Jerk Island or something.
That seems like pretty anti social behaviour, right? Also, I'm no dog doctor, but I'm pretty sure normal dogs don't bark all the time if they're happy and having a great time. We're talking maybe a solid half hour of barking each time. I don't know about the tail wagging status, I can't see that.
Or maybe this is all in my head and I'm about to go full Tyler Durden making soap and all printing out mad rules and shit at work.
Can anyone else hear this mess or are you all in the posh flats away from the main road now?
Actually, it's more like 2am dog man, somewhere around Coldharbour Lane by the junction to Herne Hill Road and Flaxman. I don't know what it is because I'm like several houses down and I can only lean so far out the window before I knock over my succulents, but almost every night now I'll be woken up by a dog barking every five seconds. It'll stop for maybe a minute or so, but then start barking again. I can't see the dog or the accompanying human, but it sounds like they're just down by the main road, maybe outside Costcutter or Jerk Island or something.
That seems like pretty anti social behaviour, right? Also, I'm no dog doctor, but I'm pretty sure normal dogs don't bark all the time if they're happy and having a great time. We're talking maybe a solid half hour of barking each time. I don't know about the tail wagging status, I can't see that.
Or maybe this is all in my head and I'm about to go full Tyler Durden making soap and all printing out mad rules and shit at work.
Can anyone else hear this mess or are you all in the posh flats away from the main road now?
teuchter
je suis teuchter
I can see that the 0749 from LJ got to Blackfriars at 0800. Then from there were trains northbound at:
0806, 0810, 0813, 0816, 0825, 0828, 0830, 0836
A lot of those were delayed trains but averaged out that's a train every 3 or 4 mins. Yes, there was a 9 minute gap between the 0816 and 0825 but overall that is a tube-like frequency and sometimes there are gaps on the tube too.
The current timetabled frequency through the central bit of Thameslink is 18 trains per hour - about one every 3 minutes. This will increase in phases over the next couple of years, so that at the end of next year there will be 24 trains per hour - one every 2.5 minutes.
Fact is though, Thameslink is going to be a bit of a mess over the coming weeks/months, mainly because of the driver shortages as explained in the article I posted above.
editor
hiraethified
We had a similar thing by the Barrier Block. Great to see there's still some street culture left.
ChrisSouth
Well-Known Member
I know it's not always about me, but when I did catch trains going north from LJ, I didn't need to change, and now I do. I to my mind, that's a decrease in their service offering.
xsunnysuex
Life is a horizontal fall.
I've totally given up catching the train from Loughborough Junction. 
You should be able to rely on trains to get you were you need to be. I have no confidence in them whatsoever. Maybe I've just unlucky. But I very rarely get there to find my train running on time. Or even running at all.
I catch 2 buses now to get to Wallington.
You should be able to rely on trains to get you were you need to be. I have no confidence in them whatsoever. Maybe I've just unlucky. But I very rarely get there to find my train running on time. Or even running at all.
I catch 2 buses now to get to Wallington.
xsunnysuex
Life is a horizontal fall.
Oh this isn't recent. I seem to have had this problem for months now. Could just be unlucky I guess.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
It's always a bit unreliable yes. But worse than normal just now.Oh this isn't recent. I seem to have had this problem for months now. Could just be unlucky I guess.
editor
hiraethified
teuchter
je suis teuchter
The through trains are there because they are diverted from their 'normal' route between Blackfriars and London Bridge, which as you say has been closed for some time as part of the rebuild. That's now open again, but the diverts are still being used because they haven't yet got enough drivers trained up fro all services to revert to the London Bridge route. But as I understand it, it'snot really these services that cause unreliability on the loop - it's the fact that the loop trains do a long journey all the way down from Bedford/Luton and back giving them plenty of opportunity to pick up delays - and then get turned around early, meaning the return journey from Blackfriars north can be back on schedule, but at the cost of missing out a bunch of stops on the loop, and us seeing our services cancelled.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Actually I had a totally unsuccessful return train trip to E & C yesterday early evening - would have had to wait from 6.10 till 6.45 pm for a train to Elephant and there was a similar service gap coming back at 8.30 pm
So I sympathise with xsunnysuex
I was going to a talk at SBU. Good job I'd left enough time to get buses instead.
Never seen it as bad LJ - EPH for cancellations - and as xsunnysuex said they don't seem to be showing the cancellations on the National Rail enquiry website right now.
So I sympathise with xsunnysuex
I was going to a talk at SBU. Good job I'd left enough time to get buses instead.
Never seen it as bad LJ - EPH for cancellations - and as xsunnysuex said they don't seem to be showing the cancellations on the National Rail enquiry website right now.
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