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Post by revupminster on Jan 14, 2022 6:01:10 GMT
Dawlish
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Post by revupminster on Jan 1, 2022 6:40:50 GMT
Inset Soham station new station. Nine Elms new station. New Year.
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Post by revupminster on Dec 18, 2021 7:51:33 GMT
A Bank?
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Post by revupminster on Nov 19, 2021 7:05:41 GMT
I notice the Class 66 is out on the Met again. Why does the class 66 only run on the met and not any other lines. Also, why does it only run on the fast lines north of harrow? replacing the crossover at Upminster by Robert, on Flickr Class 66 have run on the District line via the connection at Barking. Excuse to get this picture out again. 12 years ago at Upminster a 66 on underground metals and on the Upminster-Romford line.
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Post by revupminster on Nov 4, 2021 11:31:17 GMT
Embankment
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Post by revupminster on Oct 19, 2021 16:17:31 GMT
A= footbridge east of Plaistow
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Post by revupminster on Sept 28, 2021 11:02:12 GMT
Leyton? It always looks like Leyton to me; I'll be right one day.
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Post by revupminster on Sept 12, 2021 7:07:23 GMT
!50s (20 of them) are going on GWR being replaced with 165/166s but the cascade is delayed by lack of 769s. The turbo trains would be a candidate for conversion but the the quick turnaround times at termini on the branches don't leave a lot of time for a charge. GWR also have an experimental 802 intercity as a battery train charging as it goes when under the wires. The thinking being that overhead wires would not be needed at stations and complicated trackwork as overhead electrification confined to runs between stations that would be a lot cheaper.
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Post by revupminster on Aug 25, 2021 5:29:01 GMT
Having worked at Whitechapel the station is unrecognizable. The steps down to the old ticket hall. The ticket office on the left, I was an apprentice there, nine months with the chief clerk, and was one of the few stations that did left luggage. We had some fry ups in that ticket office as the cooking facilities and sink were behind the rear ticket racks. It was one room. The station masters office was immediately opposite. The staff toilets were somewhere in the passage between the booking hall and district platforms.
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Post by revupminster on Aug 23, 2021 19:06:03 GMT
Whitechapel had two separate entrances at one time an East London Railway and the District Railway, way back the two entrances had one closed and that one became a retail shop.. Am I right in saying the Costa coffee shop used to be one of the two entrances ? 50/ 50 chance of having called it right ? whitechapel by Robert, on Flickr The entrance was next to the East London Line station. When the District was extended over the East London line a footbridge was added over the tracks to the platforms. The picture in post by Golden Arrow above yours shows the original District line entrance on the left hand side. Whitechapel was a series of up and down steps and stairways.
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Post by revupminster on Aug 21, 2021 5:56:41 GMT
Update
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Post by revupminster on Aug 19, 2021 6:18:57 GMT
I once visited what was left of the surface buildings at St Marys, which was at the time a car showroom, without realising its history. What the programme did not mention was that when St Marys opened, the present Whitechapel station did not exist. The line was originally a connection between the East London Line and the existing District and Metropolitan (at Mansion House and Liverpool Street respectively). Only later was the "Whitechapel & Bow" extension built through a new Whitechapel station, branching off what became the "St Marys curve". Which is why what is now the main line does a "jink" just after St Marys. My source (Doug Rose's LU Diagrammatic History, 8th edition) shows the situation somewhat different, and it seems that St Mary's and Whitechapel were part of the same extension project. Steam services started from St Mary's to the East London Line on 1 Oct 1884, but the extension lines from Mansion House and Liverpool Street were first served from 6 Oct 1884, so later that week! The current Whitechapel was a reversing point for the District service until the extension east opened on 2 June 1902. whitechapel by Robert, on Flickr I looked at my third edition of Douglas Rose's map and it is very misleading as it only includes Met and District services and not the original London, Brighton & South Coast Railway. The Southern Region successor held running rights up to the time the connection with the Eastern Region was severed in 1966.
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Post by revupminster on Aug 18, 2021 6:16:02 GMT
[/a] live.st" alt=" "] I have tried to upload an image of the cover, the frontspiece, and a fold out map inside the back cover but I cannot make the images show. I put them on flickr first. Where's the attachments button? The book cost me £3.25 and probably bought at one of the old museum sites, maybe Clapham. I don't remember going to Syon Park.[/quote] I've ignored the image button to make this work.
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Post by revupminster on Aug 17, 2021 17:13:54 GMT
Tonight's episode really interested me having worked at Aldgate East over the years. The keys for ST Mary's were kept here and in my day the entrance was a doorway at a petrol station on the Whitechapel Road. I knew what the hooks were for in the ceiling. The reason for moving the station was said for longer trains, but they were already many 8 car trains and they fouled the junctions at Aldgate while waiting to enter the original Aldgate East eastbound and the rear of westbound trains would still be in the platform waiting to cross the Aldgate junctions to either Tower Hill or Liverpool Street.. The new station was a filthy station to work at, as was Mile End both just below the surface, because of tunnel dust and up to 1970 engineers steam locomotives standing waiting for the signal. It was a real revelation to discover there are still remnants of Aldgate East #1 as well as St Mary's. Never looked for these when on trains, unlike with St Mary's, so that's one back on the bucket list. The other part of last night's show & Oxford Circus-it was a great & pleasant surprise about the tiling on the former Bakerloo spiral staircase there-fantastic condition. Pity the first station at Oxford Circus (Central Line) didn't have its' architect named on the show-Harry Bell Measures-though at least we know the facade is preserved as Grade II listed. I would beg to differ. Whitechapel District opened 6 October 1884 at the present site. It came to the surface because it had to pass over the East London Line as the original link to the London & Tilbury had been proposed in 1882 but abandoned. Another reason it had to be in the open was for the steam engines to stand. The East London line station and entrance had been there since 1876 in a cutting. The District Line footbridges from the booking hall to the platforms were tacked on.
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Post by revupminster on Aug 16, 2021 21:28:12 GMT
book 1 by Robert, on Flickr book3 by Robert, on Flickr [img src="[/a] live.st" alt=" "] I have tried to upload an image of the cover, the frontspiece, and a fold out map inside the back cover but I cannot make the images show. I put them on flickr first. Where's the attachments button? The book cost me £3.25 and probably bought at one of the old museum sites, maybe Clapham. I don't remember going to Syon Park.
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Post by revupminster on Aug 16, 2021 21:14:16 GMT
Tonight's episode really interested me having worked at Aldgate East over the years. The keys for ST Mary's were kept here and in my day the entrance was a doorway at a petrol station on the Whitechapel Road. I knew what the hooks were for in the ceiling.
The reason for moving the station was said for longer trains, but they were already many 8 car trains and they fouled the junctions at Aldgate while waiting to enter the original Aldgate East eastbound and the rear of westbound trains would still be in the platform waiting to cross the Aldgate junctions to either Tower Hill or Liverpool Street..
The new station was a filthy station to work at, as was Mile End both just below the surface, because of tunnel dust and up to 1970 engineers steam locomotives standing waiting for the signal.
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Post by revupminster on Aug 5, 2021 6:54:58 GMT
As said Station Masters used to do it. Their uniforms had plain buttons as opposed to the Station Inspector who had Griffin buttons. They also had a poachers pocket inside the left hand side of the jacket for the notes. Their overcoats also had a poachers pocket.
The station master at Shadwell DID wear his hat as he walked through Watney St market to the Commercial Road and the bank. Everybody knew where he was going.
Booking clerks never had station keys so I was often locked outside with the passengers in the morning until one of the passengers from a train, usually a postman, used the emergency key from a glass case that had to be broken. Very few stations before the 1990s had night supervisors. Upney to Upminster Bridge did from the takeover in 1969/70.
Chief Clerks took over the banking in 70s when booking clerks still had no uniforms, except Relief Clerks who covered Station Masters and had the same uniform, and wore their own clothes. They were given a light brief case to carry the notes in case they were attacked it could be easily surrendered. Attacks on Booking Clerks despite carrying money from Passimeters and ticket hall machines was vary rare.
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Post by revupminster on Aug 3, 2021 20:03:44 GMT
Interesting last night on Piccadilly Circus and all the disused parts. Highgate was good; I'll have to google earth it.
I wanted more on the Passimeter as I worked in so many. Even LMS and it's stations Upney to Upminster nearly all had Passimeters when opened. There were no safes so you took the money usually in a cloth cash bag to the mess room where the safe was.
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Post by revupminster on Jul 28, 2021 16:53:56 GMT
In the last programme about North End and it's cold war use for only two years shows the amount of money governments waste in a panic as they have today with Covid 19.
I have been in that chamber at Embankment 40 years ago and it was supposed to be haunted.
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Post by revupminster on Jul 21, 2021 6:15:19 GMT
The first episode unsurprisingly featured the Holborn Aldwych shuttle and the surprise for me was the blocked off platform and the disused platform at Holborn. At Aldwych the over run tunnel towards Waterloo.
The presenter did say the current was still live on the single track still insitu but I cannot believe it is
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Post by revupminster on Jul 20, 2021 19:42:26 GMT
I am surprised no one has started a thread for what looks like a fascinating series.
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Post by revupminster on Jul 16, 2021 5:26:00 GMT
B= Leyton ?
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Post by revupminster on Jul 1, 2021 6:18:00 GMT
Most rail disasters are not computer failures but human failures even it's just a signal technician wiring something wrong. If I make a spilling mistake; is it my fault or the computers? Especially if I ignore a spell check.
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Post by revupminster on Jun 24, 2021 6:10:26 GMT
In my day Upminster Richmond was seen as the main line. Trains were numbered 1-23. Ealing trains used to be in the 30 series and often reversed at Mansion House, Tower Hill and Barking as did through Wimbledon trains. I think Edgware Road -Wimbledon in the 60 series.
When I first started Upminster had a 12 minute Sunday service which served both Richmond and Ealing every 24 minutes. Wimbledon was always the busier branch but on Sunday was stlll only every 12 minutes..
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Post by revupminster on Jun 22, 2021 15:59:54 GMT
It's the seats that maketh the train. Even a 143 with those seats was good.
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Post by revupminster on Jun 4, 2021 22:04:28 GMT
I remember being sent as a 17 year old from Charing Cross before it's change of name to Embankment with £100 to buy a bag of silver because Victoria always had plenty of change while Charing cross used to run out. All I can remember of Victoria District was a very old ticket office. I had to bring it back standing by a doorway with the bag of silver on the floor because it was so heavy.
I wonder if the Victoria District line had a light well over the tracks left over from steam days when most of the stations had some form of natural light.
Never worked at Victoria because staffing transferred to the Victoria line when it opened.
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Post by revupminster on May 29, 2021 6:07:09 GMT
DLR Beckton depot?
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Film
May 14, 2021 6:45:28 GMT
Post by revupminster on May 14, 2021 6:45:28 GMT
On Talking Pictures tonight after the watershed 9pm is the classic horror film for underground aficionados. Death Line which took a simple idea of Mind the Doors to gruesome levels.
Talking Pictures have been showing a lot unseen horror films lately such as Vampire Circus and an uncensored To the Devil a Daughter.
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Post by revupminster on May 13, 2021 6:18:13 GMT
Most of those books mentioned took a lot of information from Charles E. Lee books and booklets published by London Transport and sold in the ticket offices.
100 years of the District Line 1968 70 years of the Central Line 1970 60 years of the Piccadilly Line 1966 60 Years of the Northern Line 1967 60 Years of the Bakerloo 1966 The Metropolitan Line was a reprint The Story of the Victoria Line by John R Day 1969 The Story of London's Underground by John R Day 1966 How the Underground Works by P E Garbutt 1968 has been mentioned
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Post by revupminster on May 11, 2021 5:36:46 GMT
C=Barons Court
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