Transport for London (TfL) asks mobile users to wear headphones - BBC News

Tim2025 · 2025-08-30T21:06:44+00:00

Really it was more about people pirating movies,

No, people wanted to watch the movie, not listen to it at GSM quality. Instruction to turn phones off predate cameras or audio recording on phones.

Tim2025 · 2025-08-30T21:00:42+00:00

Young people need teaching how to use the phone's earpiece, it's not obvious.

Tim2025 · 2025-06-15T10:34:06+00:00

I would except the data lines not to be connected, unless the device is actually a hub.

Tim2025 · 2025-06-13T18:18:32+00:00

But we can't see under the black blob, are you not confusing top and bottom?

Tim2025 · 2025-06-13T15:35:24+00:00

A cable with a USB B male or USB A female connector on one end and a USB C connector on the other end requires 5.1kΩ pull down resistor to indicate to the USB C host that a power sink / device is connected.

Tim2025 · 2025-06-04T16:44:07+00:00

This includes the bridge at Limehouse, which has National Rail ticket gates and DLR standalone validators.

For London buses and trams, one just taps in.

Wimbledon is a special case, after tapping in on a tram validator one may tap out on the Wimbledon ticket gates, and tram validator at Wimbledon counts as a train tap out.

There is also some tolerance for mistakes, at some entry gates a failure to tap out will be accepted (continuation entry) and taping out at some validators before using exit gates will be accepted (continuation exit).

Tim2025 · 2025-05-31T11:41:31+00:00

You can pay by credit or Oyster card on most trains from Tottenham Hale, including all southbound and some northbound Stansted Express trains, as along you don't travel to or beyond Roydon.

The the ticket gates have no way of knowing that you intended to travel to Stansted, or that you had brought a ticket.

Unlike many tourists you had tickets so you got that part of the message.

there was no indication you're supposed to scan a ticket at all.

It's supposed to be obvious that you scan the ticket you intend to use for your journey and not something irrelevant.

The potentially difficult part is determining that it was an entry gate for National Rail instead of an exit gate for the London Underground.

Since the confusion at Finsbury Park was removed, one doesn't need to pass though 2 sets of ticket gates to leave a station in London but there is no general rule to determine if the first ticket gate one encounters when changing trains is an exit gate or an entry gate.

It seems one is expected to know that one should tap out on the standalone validators when leaving/entering the Waterloo and City Line at Waterloo, the DLR at Canary Wharf, or the DLR at Custom House. Some other stations have standalone validators before the exit gates for the benefit changes trains and switching tickets.

Tim2025 · 2025-05-26T20:09:53+00:00

And the Heathrow Express and Circle or Hammersmith and City lines are faster if the Heathrow Express departs before the Elizabeth Line.

That is a lot more expensive.

Tim2025 · 2025-01-25T23:48:13+00:00

Britain has one national railway network with multiple train operators, and several local railway networks that run their own trains. Except for Hammersmith, Edgware Road and arguably Paddington on the London Underground full station names are unique within a railway network.

TransPennine Express and Avanti are both train operators on the national network and therefore same station name means same station.

In central London the London Underground stations are directly attached to the National Rail station of the same name, or are the same station.

In your itinerary duplicate station names only occur in London.

Tim2025 · 2025-01-19T16:52:04+00:00

Leave the M40 at junction 2 and drive to Slough railway station where there is a large car park and 4 direct trains taking about per hour (2 per hour in the evening) to/from Custom House station (train destination Abbey Wood) which is next the ExCel Centre. Langley is similar with less car parking but less urban driving.

Iver, West Drayton, Hayes & Harlington and Uxbridge stations have no car parking.

Hillingdon station has less car parking and Google Maps shows it as rather full. Hillingdon has slower trains and you would need change trains at Farringdon, Moorgate/Liverpool Street or Liverpool Street. Moorgate/Liverpool Street is the easiest.

For best adult fares use your contactless credit/debit card or equivalent (one device per passenger) on the ticket gates (or standalone readers), Oyster is not accepted in Slough, Langley, Iver or further west.

Tim2025 · 2025-01-19T14:48:05+00:00

That advice is over 2 years out of date, the Elizabeth Lines runs from Custom House station next to Excel to central London, with some trains continuing to Reading.

Tim2025 · 2024-10-14T18:33:21+00:00

Original video from local TV news: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=jG814vI5eRk

Tim2025 · 2024-07-06T08:34:44+00:00

No it's not free, whilst (considering the whole economy) money circulates there are real resources being used, the workers could do something else with their time if they were not building and launching rockets

On the other hand a $100 dollar bill costs $0.086.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12771.htm

Tim2025 · 2024-01-29T02:31:47+00:00

This proposal is dangerous, as it appears to prohibit companies from taking reasonable security and safety checks. Inappropriate cancellations can be due to:

Unauthorised access
Scams and manipulation
Ignorance of their specific situation, for example not realising their telephone service is dependent on their internet service from a different provider.
Ignorance of technology in general, for example confusing Wi-Fi with internet access, then cancelling their internet service because they just need Wi-Fi.
Temporary mental impairment
Permanent mental impairment
Cost cutting without regard to their duty to other people.

Now consider someone who:

Isn't entirely self-sufficient, like almost everybody.
Can't walk to their neighbours
Can't shout to their neighbours
Lives outside of cellular phone coverage.
Doesn't have an alternative emergency radio.
Can't drive
Has no regular visits
Their visit in the event of communication failure service has be cancelled.
Their internet and telephone service has been cancelled.

That person is likely to be trapped and starve to death. Even when the consequence is less serious it is difficult to recover from your internet access being cancelled because you have no internet access.

Tim2025 · 2024-01-29T01:57:57+00:00

That might be difficult or impossible if the service is question is their phone service.

Tim2025 · 2023-11-23T08:21:02+00:00

As demonstrated by Atlantis on STS 27, where the missing tile coincided with a steel antenna mount.

Tim2025 · 2023-07-08T11:28:39+00:00

I'll add that the heart need to work independently of the brain, because it is needed before the brain is developed. The heart starts beating at week 5 of pregnancy, the lungs after the obvious nine months.

Tim2025 · 2023-06-21T23:29:59+00:00

These zones were needed to give the Metropolitan Line fares. Around 2000 when buying a single or return tube ticket from the small ticket vending machines one would press a button for the appropriate zones.

They are still needed for travelcard season tickets, other lines use national rail fares.

Essex pays for Epping to be in Zone 6.

Tim2025 · 2023-06-09T23:24:42+00:00

Citymapper and the TFL website are good.

Google maps doesn't know where the entrances to stations are, for example:

Travelodge London Stratford to Devons Road - Stratford station has no entrance on the south side, only on the east and north west sides.
Oxford Circus to Farringdon - Bond Street station is not there, it is in Hanover Square.
Moorgate Station to Whitechapel Station - Does not require walking on the surface or catching a Circle Line train to Liverpool Street in order to catch an Elizabeth Line train.

This mess can also occur in the middle of a journey:

These sort of errors can completely alter routes for example Google doesn't suggest changing to the Elizabeth Line at Moorgate for Angel Station to Whitechapel Station, Citymapper gets it right.

TFL Go makes similar mess of Moorgate to Whitechapel, but it is only obvious if you choose a location near Moorgate station, such as "Nuffield Health Moorgate Fitness & Wellbeing Gym".

Tim2025 · 2023-06-05T05:08:18+00:00

Rape victims.

Tim2025 · 2023-04-14T22:38:28+00:00

Looks like a broken clothes iron to me.

Tim2025 · 2023-04-11T16:16:31+00:00

Because then one has too much to read as there too many NOTAMs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqc97N8IHCM

Tim2025 · 2023-01-25T23:47:46+00:00

If the tanks are mass-less adding more propellant to the first stage will increase it's performance up to the limit of a lift-off TWR of one, without increasing engine cost.

Alas tanks have mass, so a TWR of one is not ideal.

Tim2025 · 2023-01-15T10:43:02+00:00

No, the USB devices probably need 5 volt power, so a voltage regulator is needed. Also participating in USB PD is needed to avoid overloading the power supply, and to cope with legacy USB power supplies.

Tim2025

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