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Post by revupminster on May 3, 2021 16:15:07 GMT
There was a booking clerk used to sell items to staff and he got the nickname Man in a Suitcase in which he carried his goods
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Post by revupminster on Apr 28, 2021 14:11:47 GMT
This sounds like a job for AC12 if DI Steve Arnott can avoid his own drug test. Holy Mary, Joseph, and the wee Donkey.
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Post by revupminster on Apr 22, 2021 6:18:40 GMT
Upney +1
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Post by revupminster on Apr 21, 2021 5:34:08 GMT
C= Upton Park? English bond brickwork makes me think it is along there somewhere.
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Post by revupminster on Apr 10, 2021 5:49:14 GMT
1= London Bridge 10= Cannon Street railway bridge 9= Shanklin
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Post by revupminster on Apr 5, 2021 5:45:36 GMT
Is this Britain's failed attempt at The Time Tunnel, or Crossrail?.
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Post by revupminster on Apr 2, 2021 5:30:53 GMT
Only guessing D is Baker Street.
And what is a backflap manhole No 60? Sounds extremely rude. Maybe another name for a shirt tail?
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Post by revupminster on Mar 30, 2021 6:35:45 GMT
E=Gas holders between West Ham and Bromley by Bow. F=Lego train at Legoland??
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Post by revupminster on Mar 22, 2021 11:13:08 GMT
Of course the rear trip is the front trip when the train reverses. Trains get rear tripped generally at a reversing point if the train stop does not lower automatically or air leaks out and the train stop rises or by an obstruction on the line such as a key from a chair. Single line working also required the rear trip to be cut out.
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Post by revupminster on Mar 16, 2021 18:48:27 GMT
Plaistow; it was Plarstow if you lived there, Playstow if you didn't.
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Post by revupminster on Mar 16, 2021 6:46:58 GMT
Don't go to a Turkish barbers and say you have been to Torquay on holiday.
And don't ask relief staff what they called Buckhurst Hill.
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Post by revupminster on Mar 9, 2021 7:03:19 GMT
Looking at that picture of the guard reminds me of the Doc Martin's that were issued. They were based on the gibson style but with a thicker sole. They had a blue roundal stitched near the laces that you could cut off. The Post Office had a similar type. with their stitched on design. They were tough to breal in but lasted years if not decades.
I used to buy the public version with the thinner welded sole because they were the best watertight shoe.
Uniforms are an interesting subject with the difference between grades.
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Post by revupminster on Mar 4, 2021 6:51:16 GMT
Great Grin! Cheshire Cat Statue, Llandudno
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Post by revupminster on Feb 22, 2021 7:12:27 GMT
For the ancients on here. Hughie Green, of Opportunity Knocks and Double Your Money used to live there and had a model railway in one of the rooms.
The novelists Arnold Bennett and H. G. Wells also lived there.
It also reminded me of the ex BR stations Upney to Upminster Bridge had coal boilers for the radiators later changed to gas. The coal shute cover at Elm Park being in the street just outside the entrance which allowed coal to be dropped into the room below the booking hall.
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Post by revupminster on Jan 30, 2021 6:29:12 GMT
Ryde Pier in there?
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Post by revupminster on Jan 10, 2021 6:32:01 GMT
Upminster Bridge
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Post by revupminster on Jan 6, 2021 14:44:42 GMT
Glasgow subway 4ft. that could have prevailed.
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Post by revupminster on Jan 5, 2021 15:24:05 GMT
The trains operate on third rail and have retained four doors per car.
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Post by revupminster on Jan 2, 2021 22:28:05 GMT
Stratford was primarily a British Rail station, with the central Line merely passing through, staffed by Eastern Region. It was the station for football specials when West Ham played away. I travelled on them to Cambridge United and Colchester United. There was a huge locomotive works; now the Olympic Park, Westfield, and the Eurostar station.
The only connection I can remember was the Rapid Printer ticket machines in the ticket office which were maintained by Underground machine fitters.
When I worked at Mile End the keys for the ventilation shaft by the A12 were kept there and being taken there as it was also an emergency escape route.
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Post by revupminster on Jan 1, 2021 7:13:26 GMT
Have to explain 40%. If they are working 5 hours they do not need a meal relief and if only 2 days a week then as part timers I would have thought the most productive staff of all.
Station staff working 12 hour Sundays needed two meal reliefs so stations were left unmanned. That's what happened in my day. Maybe all changed?
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Post by revupminster on Dec 29, 2020 18:58:41 GMT
The first underground trains were broad gauge to Farringdon and Hammersmith although not for long as Brunel's system fell out of favour. If it had survived then the underground could never have expanded over so many BR tracks and the Central Line would have been a lot shorter.
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Post by revupminster on Dec 28, 2020 13:42:42 GMT
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Post by revupminster on Dec 28, 2020 10:08:10 GMT
Unless passengers resume quickly can any line justify a 90 second headway? After Brexit will we still be France's 7th city? Will levelling up remove jobs to the north. Although more people moving out of London might increase commuting on the mainline although I suspect the jobs will follow them to the shire capitals.
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Post by revupminster on Dec 19, 2020 11:17:52 GMT
It's an urban myth but you can make a film out of it. Death Line springs to mind ("mind the doors" anyone). Hobbs End featured in Quatermass and the Pit.
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Post by revupminster on Dec 18, 2020 6:38:24 GMT
B= DLR North Woolwich portal
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Post by revupminster on Dec 13, 2020 7:25:12 GMT
Presumably the second entrance at ground level was replaced by the steel staircase up to High Road Leyton. When Orient reach the premier division the entrance will be sorely tested.
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Post by revupminster on Dec 12, 2020 18:13:22 GMT
Many lifts were operated by ticket collectors from inside the lift. Their controls closed the lift doors often of the bostwick type and started the lift which automatically stopped at the correct level.
One exception was Wapping where my father worked. The ticket collector stopped the lift as well. For this reason he was not supposed to travel in the lift but use the stairs in case the Ticket Collector overshot the stop mark. If this happened the lift had to be hand wound by opening and closing a big circuit breaker from the machine room. The cable had a mark to indicate when the lift was at floor level. When the training centre was at White City we were trooped off to Edgware Road, Bakerloo, to learn hand winding.
Another thing with lifts was when out of service they were left on the upper landing to reduce strain on the cable because the counter weight was heavier than an empty lift.
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Post by revupminster on Dec 11, 2020 6:47:34 GMT
St Ives
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Post by revupminster on Dec 9, 2020 22:54:19 GMT
What time is allowed to detrain at Paddington. Maybe like Barking sidings the train can approach the sidings at line speed although there is no approach track, like Barking, to the three turnback sidings.
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Post by revupminster on Dec 4, 2020 23:31:27 GMT
Surely all the Crossrail trains are going to disappear down a big hole at Stratford and not trouble the surface platforms at Liverpool St except for 4 Gidea Park trains in an hour.
I wonder how they are going to detrain Shenfield trains in the rush hour at Paddington to reverse them in the sidings.
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