T/Ops bases

[ikar]

Where are the places of the crew base?
I know that for District line:
1. Acton Town
2. Earl's Court
3. Barking
4. Upminster

What are the bases on the other lines?

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east london line is at new cross depot

northen line is :
morden
golders green
finchley (not sure which one though)
and i think possibly edgware

bakerloo i know used to be south london house not sure if it still is?

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Bakerloo: Queens Park, Elephant & Castle
Circle & Hammersmith: Edgware Road, Barking
Central: Hainault, Leytonstone, White City, West Ruislip
District: Upminster, Barking, Earls Court, Acton Town
Jubilee: Wembley Park, North Greenwich
Metropolitan: Neasden, Rickmansworth
Northern: Golders Green, East Finchley, Morden
Piccadilly Arnos Grove, Acton Town
Victoria: Seven Sisters
Waterloo & City: Leytonstone

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And, from next month IIRC, H&C will also have a depot at Hammersmith.

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jim said:

Jubilee: Wembley Park, North Greenwich

Nothing at Stratford then?

Sam

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adw said:

And, from next month IIRC, H&C will also have a depot at Hammersmith.

Yes and from the end of the year Loughton will also re-open.

ca55ie said:

jim said:

Jubilee: Wembley Park, North Greenwich

Nothing at Stratford then?

Sam

No, I believe there were plans to have a crew depot there at one time. Mabey an (ex)Jubilee bod can confirm or deny this.

[q8]

I don't agree with this "crews here" " trains there" lark they have nowadays. If trains are at certain place then crews should be there too. There was a proposal once that the crew booking on point at Acton should actually be in the depot but the board objected to having to build a car park on the "Alps"

So they built a useless never-open museum there instead. They could have built that over the track on a raft at South Ken.

[ikar]

Thanks Jim for the help here but I was thinking that the tread will be longer

[Colin]

Longer? We don't have that many booking on points anymore!!

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jim said:

No, I believe there were plans to have a crew depot there at one time. Mabey an (ex)Jubilee bod can confirm or deny this.

Correct!
The trains are stabled at Stratford but the crew depot is at North Greenwich. I did hear the reason for this decision once but I can't remember now! Maybe Towerman knows.

[towerman]

It was always intended to be North Greenwich,I wish it was Stratford,would do away with the very late and early staff trains!!!

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towerman said:

It was always intended to be North Greenwich,I wish it was Stratford,would do away with the very late and early staff trains!!!

Hah, that staff halt next to the main running lines always amused me when I rode past it on a Jubbly train...

Sam

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ca55ie said:

Hah, that staff halt next to the main running lines always amused me when I rode past it on a Jubbly train...

Ah the staff halt! Always an amusing place to stop at anyway. If you didn't stop in exactly the right place, you'd be gapped and stuck there!

It was always intended to be North Greenwich,I wish it was Stratford,would do away with the very late and early staff trains!!!

Cheers Towerman! I was one of the drivers who kept you awake at night... Being a Wembley Park night shift man, I was almost always on the last and first staff trains! ;D

[robots]

When I worked on Northern Line in 1980 's there were seven train crew depots-

Edgware , Golders Green , High Barnet , East Finchley , Euston , Kennington and Morden.

Only Morden , Golders Green and East Finchley survive . Though Barnet and Edgware

survive as ` remote booking on and off points '. Trains are also outstabled at the

latter two locations . Does anybody else remember the musician Jah Wobble as a

driver at Kennington ? The only other celebrity that I can think of having worked

on the tube is the camp comedian Julian Clary who worked as a guard at Parsons

Green in the early / mid 1980 's or are there more ?

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robots said:

on the tube is the camp comedian Julian Clary who worked as a guard at Parsons Green in the early / mid 1980 's or are there more ?

WOW, I never knew that Julian Clary was a PG guard! Why am I not surprised someone like him was based at Parsons Green?! ;D

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alanl said:

robots said:

on the tube is the camp comedian Julian Clary who worked as a guard at Parsons Green in the early / mid 1980 's or are there more ?

WOW, I never knew that Julian Clary was a PG guard! Why am I not surprised someone like him was based at Parsons Green?! ;D

*Apparently* when he was there he threw the organisation into chaos by insisting on a female uniform.

The rules IIRC said a uniform must be worn, but wasn't more specific than that.

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robots said:

Does anybody else remember the musician Jah Wobble as a

driver at Kennington ? The only other celebrity that I can think of having worked

on the tube is the camp comedian Julian Clary who worked as a guard at Parsons

Green in the early / mid 1980 's or are there more ?

Heh.

Here in Stockholm, we have had quite a few celebrities working in the Metro pre-celebrity or notoriety status. One of the more infamous ones was a certain person who was a very active Young Conservative, and actually closely related to the current chairman of the Swedish Conservatives. Incidentally, he was also somewhat rubbishy at the job.

The sometime dentist, rap star and record mogul "Dr. Alban" worked as a driver at my depot back in the eighties. World famous in Sweden and Germany at least.

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admin said:

alanl said:

WOW, I never knew that Julian Clary was a PG guard! Why am I not surprised someone like him was based at Parsons Green?! ;D

*Apparently* when he was there he threw the organisation into chaos by insisting on a female uniform.

The rules IIRC said a uniform must be worn, but wasn't more specific than that.

Back in the days when our beloved company tried to remove shorts from our uniform, the drivers mostly ignoreds the bulletins and kept on wearing them. The station staff and on-train customer service staff, however, were subject to a lot of harassment from management.

One male staff member then started wearing a skirt, since we had a similar clause stating only that uniform was to be worn -nothing about males only wearing male uniform items exclusively. He got a lot of attention, made it into a few local papers and news shows, especially, after Connex threatened to fire him, and eventually Connex management got a round of red faces and mumbled something about "possibly revising the uniform policy".

Which of course made quite a few memebers of male staff put in orders for uniform skirts.

As of today, shorts are still a part of our official uniform.

[solidbond]

admin said:

alanl said:

WOW, I never knew that Julian Clary was a PG guard! Why am I not surprised someone like him was based at Parsons Green?! ;D

*Apparently* when he was there he threw the organisation into chaos by insisting on a female uniform.

The rules IIRC said a uniform must be worn, but wasn't more specific than that.

And, allegedly, got his first TV appearance as a result of it, when he was filmed for the London evening news programme of the time, dancing on Earl's Court platform in a female uniform

[robots]

I met Julian Clary when he was `displaced ' off the District Line on the introduction

of OPO . He was at Kennington or Morden can 't remember which . He was camp

and outrageous even then.

[chris]

robots said:

He was camp and outrageous even then.

Should've fitted right in then! ;D

[chris]

robots said:

He was camp and outrageous even then.

He should've fitted right in ;D ;D

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Watching the Discovery Home and Leisure programme Garden Railway on sky TV, presenter and well known TV sound man Mark Found claims to have been a driver on the Northern Line before his TV career

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Richie Green an ex Bakerloo line driver now makes a very good living doing voiceovers for adverts and Sky, now calls himself Redd Pepper. See here www.speak-voices.com/managed/reddpepper/reddpepper.html