Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] New St station platform alignments

for the upper structure all pass through them. Cheers Andy From: les...@lsces.co.uk [mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk] Sent: 25 September 2015 22:42 To: 'Brian Prangle'; 'talk-gb-westmidlands'; 'Talk GB'; Andy Robinson Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] New St station platform alignments

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] New St station platform alignments

: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] New St station platform alignments I can't remember ... has the track layout been changed yet? I know there were some plans to realign, but the core structure hasn't changed since first constructed? Sent from my android device so quoting is crap ... need

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] New St station platform alignments

Thanks for all your unput. It seems Andy's suggestion is the best: to align the platforms with the elevator/stairs/escalator positions in the concourse plan. I'l use that approach once I'm sure the concourse is aligned as best as I can get it. Re-aligning the platforms will take some time and will

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] New St station platform alignments

On 25 September 2015 at 14:56, Brian Prangle wrote: > Does anyone know whether the alignment of the platforms under the concourse > is based on anything other than pure guesswork? The alignment at either end > where they can be seen in Bing doesn't look right either. I'm

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] New St station platform alignments

I've certainly found that in most large shopping centres/malls etc., support elements are usually regularly spaced, and at least estimating what this spacing is & using it to correlate with features observable from outside can help refine positioning. Obviously platform lifts & escalators fit this

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] New St station platform alignments

: Andy Robinson <ajrli...@gmail.com> To: 'Brian Prangle' <bpran...@gmail.com>, 'talk-gb-westmidlands' <talk-gb-westmidla...@openstreetmap.org>, 'Talk GB' <talk-gb@openstreetmap.org> Sent: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 21:12 Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] New St station platf

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] New St station platform alignments

On 25 September 2015 at 22:41, wrote: > I can't remember ... has the track layout been changed yet? I know there > were some plans to realign, but the core structure hasn't changed since > first constructed? > I'm pretty sure there have been no changes to the tracks or major

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] New St station platform alignments

I recall tweaking the tracks some years ago to better fit imagery as they were definitely rough drawn before that but I expect with different imagery now and folks messing about over that couple of years of changing its all got a bit messy. Part of the problem is that a lot of the track radius

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] New St station platform alignments

On 25/09/15 22:48, Graham Jones wrote: > I'm pretty sure there have been no changes to the tracks or major > building structures at station platform level - I didn't see any > evidence of heavy work like that on my travels anyway. http://maps.nls.uk/view/101584678 The later maps just have black

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] New St station platform alignments

On 25/09/15 23:22, Lester Caine wrote: > On 25/09/15 22:48, Graham Jones wrote: >> I'm pretty sure there have been no changes to the tracks or major >> building structures at station platform level - I didn't see any >> evidence of heavy work like that on my travels anyway. > >