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@Se_Railway attended the @LBofBexley transport committee meeting yesterday. Your CEO and Ops Director couldn't be bothered to turn up to the meeting in person (video link). The public did, objecting to the unconsulted sweeping changes that are happening from 11th December. 1/14
People taking time away from family or after work to attend a presentation by 4 @Se_Railway bosses including Steve White and Scott Buckland talking to a diverse group of commuters, workers, mothers, elderly, retired, women worried about access, safety, journey time, crowding 2/14
Not one woman presenting, all 4 males 40/50 ish telling women that decisions were made that will severely impact their lives without consultation because they planned no time before implementing and that the Dft signed off on this. Admitting these changes are extensive 3/14
6.35am
Baby R: "Daddy, I'm not feeling well..."
Dad: "Ok what will help make you feel better?"
BR: "I want to go on that new purple train...."
Cue thread....
Baby R: "Daddy, I'm not feeling well..."
Dad: "Ok what will help make you feel better?"
BR: "I want to go on that new purple train...."
Cue thread....
Dad: "Have you heard of the famous Cannon Street Loop line train?"
BR: " No Daddy, that sounds like fun. Where can we get on it?"
Dad: "We can get train to either Lewisham or St Johns, and jump on there."
BR: " No Daddy, that sounds like fun. Where can we get on it?"
Dad: "We can get train to either Lewisham or St Johns, and jump on there."
"let's go to St Johns Daddy, we never stop there..."
"Look Daddy it's one of those new blue City Beam ones..."
"Look Daddy it's one of those new blue City Beam ones..."
And so the day arrives, and Woolwich now has a ‘Woolwich Arsenal’ station that isn’t in the Arsenal, and a ‘Woolwich’ station that is in the Arsenal. (Yes, and a ‘Woolwich Dockyard’ station whose dockyard closed 150 years ago.) #ElizabethLine
Going down…
The TfL powers that be will be delighted that the stations/trains is already swarming with people who look like this is already part of their daily routine, rather than obsessively videoing everything… 🚈
A Poem for @Crossrail fans struggling to sleep tonight:
(1/7) Twas the Night before Crossrail, and all through the town
The Platforms stood ready, some 100ft down.
Roundels, display screens, maps, set out with care
For thousands of passengers soon to be there.
(1/7) Twas the Night before Crossrail, and all through the town
The Platforms stood ready, some 100ft down.
Roundels, display screens, maps, set out with care
For thousands of passengers soon to be there.
(2/7) The new #trains were nestled all snug in their sidings,
Ready to move out at five-minute timings;
Commuters and tourists were ready to master
Nine brand-new stations … and Bond Street soon after.
Ready to move out at five-minute timings;
Commuters and tourists were ready to master
Nine brand-new stations … and Bond Street soon after.
(3/7) It’s been a long wait: thirty years in the making,
But the passenger journey will now be breath-taking:
Bright stations, time savings, and better connections,
New possibilities in every location.
But the passenger journey will now be breath-taking:
Bright stations, time savings, and better connections,
New possibilities in every location.
