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Post by DWS on May 17, 2012 7:14:53 GMT
I don't see why the line was named Jubilee Line at all as it opened in 1979 which was not a Jubilee year. It was simply a gimmick by London Conservatives to garner support for the party in the 1977 GLC elections. As for the Jubilee itself, the country is in recession and I admire HM The Queen for asking her government in February 2012 to limit the spending of public money on public Jubilee celebrations and festivities. The painting of underground trains to celebrate the event appears totally unnecessary and rather tacky. The train has not been repainted, its a vinyl plastic covering. |
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Post by charleyfarley on May 17, 2012 7:35:16 GMT
I don't see why the line was named Jubilee Line at all as it opened in 1979 which was not a Jubilee year. It was simply a gimmick by London Conservatives to garner support for the party in the 1977 GLC elections. As for the Jubilee itself, the country is in recession and I admire HM The Queen for asking her government in February 2012 to limit the spending of public money on public Jubilee celebrations and festivities. The painting of underground trains to celebrate the event appears totally unnecessary and rather tacky. The train has not been repainted, its a vinyl plastic covering. OK, replace the word "painting" in my post with the word "decorating". It is still totally unnecessary, tacky and a waste of scarce resources. |
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Post by 21146 on May 17, 2012 9:41:37 GMT
According to TFL it was done by Tube Lines and didn't cost the taxpayer anything (so I presume that company has secretly re-entered the private sector - last time I looked it was part of TFL).
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Post by 21146 on May 17, 2012 9:42:59 GMT
Looks more like a British Airways livery.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2012 14:24:38 GMT
Like the livery or like it not, you don't refuse requests from "the Palace", otherwise it could be knighthood suicide for someone or several someones !!! ;D ;D  |
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Post by djlynch on May 19, 2012 1:01:57 GMT
There is one slight snagg with trying to design a fitting livery. Silver and Gold are straightforward, but what colour is Diamond... Clearly, the Jubilee line needs to be running transparent trains to properly celebrate the Diamond Jubilee. |
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2012 14:14:58 GMT
Watch out for the second train this week - will it be the same design, better, or even worse? |
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Post by DWS on May 20, 2012 18:33:14 GMT
Watch out for the second train this week - will it be the same design, better, or even worse? It will be the same design ;D |
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2012 19:35:30 GMT
Has anyone yet seen the second train and what units are involved?
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Post by DWS on May 23, 2012 23:07:07 GMT
Has anyone yet seen the second train and what units are involved? The units are 96074/103. |
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2012 7:33:28 GMT
Many thanks  |
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2012 18:16:55 GMT
this is the train that was stuck in the tunnel last night. its been stuck at neasden depot all day. it was dragged into the yard this afternoon...
OH DEAR.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2012 18:58:26 GMT
Oh dear indeed. As far as I can make out - Train stalled approaching St. John's Wood just before 17.30 and suspended London Bridge - Finchley Road. Suspended Canary Wharf - Finchley Road 19.10 to 20.50 when suspended London Bridge - Finchley Road again. Dud train departs 23.15 being 'pushed' by train in rear, arriving in Neasden depot around 00.45 (which must have screwed what remained of the service between Finchley Road and Stanmore!). In today's Evening Standard (like it or like it not) - LUs Operations Director Nigel Holness said "... this is clearly not the level of service our customers have a right to expect ...." That must be the under statement of the year .... "TfL Chief Peter Hendy .... admitted there was bound to be more disruption during the Olympics." There's confidence for you  |
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Post by jardine01 on May 24, 2012 19:49:24 GMT
Use the Central line instead I have more faith in it than the Jubilee line!
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2012 19:54:26 GMT
I use "anything" and takes my chance. After working for them 40 years and using the underground regularly since the 1950s (handworked doors on the District, for example), what will be will be  |
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Post by Chris M on May 25, 2012 0:09:55 GMT
Returning to the subject of this thread (the thread about the St John's Wood breakdown is " Jubilee line reliability worries"), I saw one of these trains headed south towards Finchley Road (while I was on a northbound Met) early this evening. My overall impression was "what a mess" - indeed it's worse than the AOA 378 (and that's not at all good)! |
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Post by Rich32 on May 26, 2012 2:25:23 GMT
dvd999 and jardine01 - as Chris M has already pointed out above your posts are off-topic and need to be addressed in the thread he mentioned, so they have been moved there.
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