St Truiden & Ieper (Belgium) 10 – 13 November

First post about my trip to Belgium in November
All the pictures taken will be uploaded to a new set called Benelux 4 of my flicker photo account
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St Pancras International with Eurostar Trains to Paris and Brussel Zuid

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Brussel Zuid two Thalys ‘Trains a Grande Vitesse’

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Landen Station
I took a train bound for Liege (Luik) from Brussel Zuid, and changed here to Bus 21a to St Truiden and Hasselt, which stops 5 minutes away from the Gurdwara in Halmaal, just south of St Truiden (Province of Limburg). My Eurostar train ticket was valid to all Belgian stations, the bus ticket was only Euro 1.60

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Harjinder Singh
Man in Blue

London Overground – Camden to Brick Lane I

First post about going from Camden to Brick Lane
Next posts will include pictures of the new East London Line
All pictures will gradually be uploaded on my flickr account
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094.a.From Northern to North London Line

Camden Town, Northern Line
Due to having a morning and an afternoon meeting in Central London, with quite a bit of time in between, I had the opportunity to go on this excursion. I was in an office near London Bridge station and took the underground from there to Camden Town.

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On the way to Camden Road Overground Station
From Camden Town I walked to Camden Road. The route was well signposted.

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Camden Road Station 

094.f.From North London to East London Line

Camden Road Station
Looking across the viaduct towards Caledonian Road & Barnsbury. The North London Line makes a dip towards the area where the Euston, St Pancras and King’s Cross rail terminals are.

094.g.From North London to East London Line

Camden Road Station
New Overground train ready to take me to Dalston Kingsland

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Man in Blue

I am going away for four days !

I am leaving early Tuesday (10/11) morning for Brussel by Eurostar and from there to St Truiden in the east of Belgium. On Wednesday 11/11 we will go to Ieper for the annual World War I armistice day commemoration. I will stay one more day in St Truiden to come back to London on Friday afternoon.

I have uploaded my column, an article on the drowning Maldives and the last pictorial on ‘from Bank to Cyprus’.

I have pictures of the London Underground, of the Heathrow Terminal 5 Guru Nanak celebration and of a visit to Coventry where together with my friend Balwant Singh I toured the local Gurdware. All these pictures will start appearing on my flickr account and a selection will make it to the blog.

Thanks for your ‘custom’
I hope to entertain and teach !

Harjinder Singh
Man in Blue 

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Sardar Balwant Singh Coventry Wala
Sardar Harjinder Singh Southall Wala
at
Coventry Station

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DLR – From Bank to Cyprus V

This my fifth report on a trip from Bank to Cyprus
To  see all my DLR pictures go to :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12445197@N05/sets/72157611244941713

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Canning Town
Looking to the junction where the trains from Stratford International will join the other two lines and where the Beckton and Woolwich Arsenal line each go their own way.

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Canning Town
West bound DLR platform

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Cyprus
Students going to UEL

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Cyprus
Tower Hill Train

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Cyprus
View from the east bound platform

The End
Harjinder Singh
Man in Blue

DLR – From Bank to Cyprus IV

This my fourth report on a trip from Bank to Cyprus
To  see all my DLR pictures go to :
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Westferry to Poplar
Beginning of the ’spaghetti junction’ between Westferry, West India Quay and Poplar

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Poplar
Trains to/from Bank, Tower Gateway, Lewisham, Stratford, Beckton and Woolwich Arsenal serve this station

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Poplar
Beckton train

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Poplar

One more posting to follow
Harjinder Singh
Man in Blue

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DLR – From Bank to Cyprus II

This my second report on a trip from Bank to Cyprus
To  see all my DLR pictures go to :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12445197@N05/sets/72157611244941713/

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Shadwell to Limehouse
DLR trains from Bank and Tower Gateway run next to the C2C trains

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Limehouse
The station is being made ready for three car trains

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Limehouse
C2C trains turn north from here to join the District Line to Upminster between Bow Road and Bromley-by-Bow

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Limehouse
Eastbound train to Bank

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Man in Blue

Published in: on November 3, 2009 at 8:32 am Leave a Comment
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DLR – From Bank to Cyprus I

Since I got involved in the chaplaincy at the University of East London I regularly travel on the DLR to Cyprus
I have posted a report on a trip to Cyprus via Tower Gateway, this time I travelled from bank
To see all my DLR pictures go to :
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Bank
On the way from the Central Line to the DLR platforms

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Bank
Platform 10 arrivals
Platform 9 departures

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On the left the DLR tracks to/from Tower Gateway and the C2C tracks to/from Fenchurch Street
On the right a DLR train to Bank

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Shadwell
From next year again interchange with the East London Line

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Harjinder Singh
Man in Blue

Published in: on November 1, 2009 at 7:40 am Leave a Comment
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Flickr Account Harjinder Singh – Man in Blue updates

Gurdwaras
192 pictures

Pictures are being added regularly, the bulk of the pictures are from West Midlands and Greater London.  

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Trains, Trams, Metro, Underground, buses and more

230 pictures

Pictures are being added regularly, now including pictures of three of the UK tram systems !

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Other Sets :
Benelux August 09.1 St Truiden
115 pictures
Benelux August 09.2 Ieper
61 pictures
Benelux August 09.3 Netherlands
106 pictures
Benelux August 09.4 Netherlands
115 pictures
Chhattri
35 pictures
Bristol Nagar Kirtan
48 pictures
Gatka & other martial arts
72 pictures
London Overground
118 pictures

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Gurfateh,

Harjinder Singh
Man in Blue

Scarborough & York September 28 & 29

On 28/09 I went by train to Scarborough and on the 29th I delivered 2 training sessions in a local college. After that I went with my colleague by car to York and took the train from there back to London. On the 30th of September I posted some of the pictures I took in Scarborough, on this post are some pictures of York station and two small tales of nice encounters on the way home.

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Entry lobby of York station, entirely given over to commercial activities 

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Northern Rail, all over the north of England
Nice train shed, in the olden days money was spent on stations

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More Northern Rail
Northern Rail operates an extensive network of local trains across the north of England. See also previous postings on Leeds and Manchester.

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And the last picture of a Northern Rail train

On the way from York to London I sat next to a young Malaysian Chinese woman, with whom I had a very nice conversation. Do not think that we discussed philosophy, religion and life in general all the way through, but we talked both about serious subjects and about lighter stuff.
I love meeting people of all backgrounds !

After arriving at King’s Cross I took the Circle Line to Paddington and Heathrow Connect to Southall. As I caught it just before departure I entered the rear end of the train and walked towards the front through the train. Halfway through I met with two young Midlands Singhs, sat down with them and had a very nice talk with them.     
 I love meeting people of all backgrounds ! 

DLR – Tower Gateway to Cyprus

I was on my way to the University of East London Campus opposite the London City Airport and decided to travel via Tower Hill and Tower Gateway. This is the second posting on this trip covering the Docklands Light Railway part of it.

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Tower Gateway Station, which has a beauty of its own.
Dear Charles, not all modern buildings are ugly !

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The renewed station has one track and two platforms 
Departing passengers use the platform on the right, arriving ones will use the platform on the left. There is  ‘parking’ track outside the station.

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The arrivals platform with one of the new trains

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At the end of the ‘departures’ platform with the ‘arrivals’ platform on the left and to the left of that the ‘parking’ track

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The Junction between Westferry and Poplar is becoming more and more like spaghetti junction with viaducts in all directions.

I hope to take some pictures in the near future of the junction at Canning Town where the new Stratford International branch is being connected to the Woolwich and the Beckton branches