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Post by harlesden on Jun 28, 2010 17:45:40 GMT
Just curious.
Anybody remember a car examiner from the late 70's/80's named Robert (Bobby) Davis.
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Post by Tubeboy on Jun 28, 2010 21:37:05 GMT
If he had two brothers called Stan and Jack, and a Sister called Olive, no, I dont know him.
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Post by harlesden on Jun 29, 2010 15:22:04 GMT
Despite the frivolous response, this was a genuine question about a genuine retired LU employee. I have now shortened the question.
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Post by SE13 on Jun 29, 2010 15:33:17 GMT
Hang fire, someone may well know, but these things take time.
We do have quite a number of retired employees from various reaches of the combine, so you never know.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2010 17:40:06 GMT
Although I was a Traffic Controller on the Northern Line in the 1970/80s, I don't remember the name - sorry.
On another matter re Golders Green depot, does anyone recall the "Turntable" which was over the far side of the depot.
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Post by SE13 on Jun 29, 2010 17:54:35 GMT
Although I was a Traffic Controller on the Northern Line in the 1970/80s, I don't remember the name - sorry. On another matter re Golders Green depot, does anyone recall the "Turntable" which was over the far side of the depot. Do you know, I thought about that this afternoon when responding to the above, and dismissed it as a figment of my imagination from being a youngster. I wonder if there is some mileage in that one? One for a different thread perhaps. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2010 1:09:09 GMT
Although I was a Traffic Controller on the Northern Line in the 1970/80s, I don't remember the name - sorry. On another matter re Golders Green depot, does anyone recall the "Turntable" which was over the far side of the depot. I have read that the turntable was for rotating single cars of old gate stock in the days when trains would end up the wrong way round on the Charing Cross Loop and then split at Golders Green during routine maintenance. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2010 6:16:53 GMT
Although I was a Traffic Controller on the Northern Line in the 1970/80s, I don't remember the name - sorry. On another matter re Golders Green depot, does anyone recall the "Turntable" which was over the far side of the depot. I have read that the turntable was for rotating single cars of old gate stock in the days when trains would end up the wrong way round on the Charing Cross Loop and then split at Golders Green during routine maintenance. It would have been necessary to rotate Standard Stock and 38TS for the same reason. The Kennington loop provided the same operational problems as the Charing Cross loop. |
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Post by tubeprune on Jun 30, 2010 8:06:41 GMT
I have read that the turntable was for rotating single cars of old gate stock in the days when trains would end up the wrong way round on the Charing Cross Loop and then split at Golders Green during routine maintenance. It would have been necessary to rotate Standard Stock and 38TS for the same reason. The Kennington loop provided the same operational problems as the Charing Cross loop. They could have turned Standard Stock cars but not 38TS. In reality, there wouldn't have been much point by the time the line was fully operational with 38TS as units were normally kept in the same formation and individual cars were not moved from one unit to another, apart from collision damage cases. |
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Post by smudge76 on Oct 11, 2010 12:19:35 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2010 14:32:43 GMT
Thanks for posting those great pictures. Really enjoyed looking through them all when we had a proper railway.
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Post by Oracle on Oct 11, 2010 15:27:21 GMT
Excellent shots! I never knew that Standard Stock (I am reading that correctly?) was sent up to the British Railways goods sidings. I always thought that the fourth rails which were left over fromt he abortive works were never electrified. Stock changes used battery locos of course.
I hope that the Mods will not object if I ask that if anyone has any excellent shots of that calibre of road transport (hopefully and preferably with trucks in but buses and trolleys are also welcome) next to Underground stations or depots, to conact me as I should like to use them in my vintage transport magazine. For a small fee + free mag.
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Post by tubeprune on Oct 11, 2010 19:46:43 GMT
Superb photos, Sir. Wonderful views. Many of the sites I remember from a bit later but the same nevertheless. Please post any more you can. i can see you really know how to take a good photo. More please! |
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Post by ruislip on Oct 11, 2010 22:04:20 GMT
I got a "page not found"  |
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Post by londonstuff on Oct 11, 2010 22:19:50 GMT
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Post by ruislip on Oct 12, 2010 0:02:09 GMT
It works now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Ben on Oct 12, 2010 4:13:57 GMT
Really enjoyable pictures there! What a joy it would have been to see those sights first hand.
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Post by smudge76 on Oct 12, 2010 8:06:46 GMT
I'm so sorry some of you had a problem getting into my FLICkr site but 3,851 of you did on Monday.
It pleases me that I am able to contribute a little LT History to so many of you.
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Post by ducatisti on Oct 12, 2010 11:39:21 GMT
what fantastic pics. Even better with the provenance in each case.
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Post by railtechnician on Oct 12, 2010 19:07:26 GMT
What a superb collection of images of places that I knew so well in the late 1970s and early 1980s. When I first visited Leicester Square old control rooms it was already derelict, we used to rob telephone spares from there to use elsewhere. Kennington was one of the first sites that I ever worked at in my earliest days on signals back in 1977. I was completely unaware of the temporary cabins shown in your pictures and presume these were all interim stages in the transfer of control to Cobourg Street, another site where I spent many hours over a number of years mostly on comms installation work. I changed out all the old Northern and Victoria GRP controllers desks there in the 1980s. The Northern was pretty much the first line that I worked on and it's great to see images of places I first worked at 10 and 20 years after your photos were taken. |
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Post by SE13 on Oct 13, 2010 14:44:53 GMT
Echo a lot of other people, a wonderful collection of pictures.
Ironic really that not much changed in London from then up until the back end of the 60's and early 70's when I was growing up. My Dad bought a Triumph something-or-other in the 50's, and one of my earliest memories was of him getting annoyed with it in possibly 1970 because of rust..... Some of the cars on that collection remind me so much of the time. Another one was of the traffic sign to "keep left".... I'd forgotten all about those!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2010 9:59:00 GMT
Oo I've looked at your flickr pics before without connecting them to your id on here (although I'm not surprised) - thanks for these, they're really interesting. |
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