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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2014 19:36:20 GMT
Caught this old fashioned sign the other day. I prefer it to the current style. Funny how odd bits and pieces get bypassed by modernisation   |
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Post by whistlekiller2000 on Sept 4, 2014 19:45:10 GMT
I like the sad "Jubilee" sticker with the torn edge later added to Waterloo!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2014 19:51:03 GMT
I wonder how long it'll last? They have some 1st gen. fluorescents too.  |
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Post by carltona on Sept 4, 2014 19:54:06 GMT
The sign seems to imply you can change for the Victoria Line at Piccadilly Circus.
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Post by John Tuthill on Sept 4, 2014 20:33:59 GMT
The sign seems to imply you can change for the Victoria Line at Piccadilly Circus. Maybe he blue has faded with time? I remember when Stockwell was being upgraded prior to the opening of the Victoria Line extension, the northbound tunnel wall map was being removed and for one glorious day it showed the line going to Alexander Palace. Was sorely tempted to go back up stairs an ask for a ticket!  |
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Post by theblackferret on Sept 4, 2014 21:41:40 GMT
Thanks for this!
Bet they also loved screwing Charing Cross over Trafalgar Square.
And then screwing Embankment over-Charing Cross.
Mind you, wasn't this the very station where the train describers carried Camberwell for 40 years after the extension there was given up as a bad idea before a yard had been excavated?
Could you see if Aldwych or Epping-Ongar are still on their maps? You never know with Warwick Avenue; a genuine denial of the space-time continuum, it would appear!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2014 22:01:31 GMT
Liverpool Street has the Epping-Ongar branch covered over. It also shows the H&C as having a limited service beyond Whitechapel.
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Post by causton on Sept 4, 2014 23:03:23 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2014 0:02:56 GMT
 It's a very thorough job, but to the well-trained eye, it's just about discernible - once you've learned a few tricks, of course. |
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Post by wimblephil on Sept 5, 2014 5:13:09 GMT
Personally, I dislike the older signs, as they just look dated.
Though they do work for the Bakerloo, it has that very old, dark, dingy, rickty, old, old feel to it!!!
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Post by grahamhewett on Sept 5, 2014 7:39:08 GMT
The Bakerloo still has Great Central in the tiling at Marylebone.
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Post by DWS on Sept 5, 2014 10:00:31 GMT
Thanks for this!
Bet they also loved screwing Charing Cross over Trafalgar Square.
And then screwing Embankment over-Charing Cross.
Mind you, wasn't this the very station where the train describers carried Camberwell for 40 years after the extension there was given up as a bad idea before a yard had been excavated?
Could you see if Aldwych or Epping-Ongar are still on their maps? You never know with Warwick Avenue; a genuine denial of the space-time continuum, it would appear! There were never any train describers on the southbound Bakerloo line. |
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Post by theblackferret on Sept 5, 2014 11:39:57 GMT
Sorry, meant the signage in the space between the platforms:  Photo is from 1988, believe the 'paint job' you see wasn't effected until c. 1982 |
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Post by Hassaan on Sept 5, 2014 21:55:34 GMT
I wonder how long it'll last? They have some 1st gen. fluorescents too. Although I see they've updated the internals to use T8 fluorescent tubes, the current standard diameter. Previously it was the "fat" T12 one, which still exist in many stations, but have been slowly replaced over the years due to the much higher efficiency of T8 tubes. Doing so requires replacing the ballast, which regulates the current. Even the trains no longer have them, the A Stock kept T12 tubes until the end but the others up to D78 had them replaced with T8 on refurb. Of course the S Stock uses the much more recent T5 standard. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2014 0:35:51 GMT
Earls Court Piccadilly platforms have older style fluorescent lamps
You think Warwick Avenue is a good relic, try Holland Park on the Central!
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Post by Dstock7080 on Sept 6, 2014 7:43:05 GMT
Earls Court Piccadilly platforms have older style fluorescent lamps (Hopefully the tubes have been renewed!) The '50s style fittings in the rest of the station are currently being replaced. |
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Post by superteacher on Sept 6, 2014 8:25:13 GMT
Such a shame that no deep level stations retained tungsten lighting. Wasn't Archway the last deep level station to have them?
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Post by bassmike on Sept 6, 2014 11:33:02 GMT
There is a current racket going on with 8 ft; tubes.They have stopped making 8 ft: fittings (probably another E.U. stupid ruling) and guess what--- 8 ft: tubes which you could get for around £3.50 have suddenly gone up to about £14 each.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2014 13:03:33 GMT
Earls Court Piccadilly platforms have older style fluorescent lamps (Hopefully the tubes have been renewed!) The '50s style fittings in the rest of the station are currently being replaced. Nah there's only one left working! Its pitch black! |
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Post by Antje on Sept 7, 2014 2:48:53 GMT
Pimlico looks nearly "as delivered" as well.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2014 0:58:15 GMT
Pimlico looks nearly "as delivered" as well. The signage has changed I think, but it does have a very 60s feel |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2014 1:06:51 GMT
Earls Court Piccadilly platforms have older style fluorescent lamps You think Warwick Avenue is a good relic, try Holland Park on the Central! Funny enough I passed through the other day (but didn't get off), but did notice the narrow Johnson font on the 'Holland Park' strip signs along the platform. I'm starting to see them everywhere now, including one little sign at Tottenham Court Road. Rickmansworth has a good one  And I don't know if this still exists since Aldgate was done up.  |
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Post by Indefatigable on Sept 8, 2014 1:14:40 GMT
Warwick Avenue and Holland Park just got added to Olympia on my list of things to do!
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Post by carltona on Sept 10, 2014 13:30:20 GMT
The Bakerloo still has Great Central in the tiling at Marylebone. I don't think those are the original tiles at Marylebone. I think "Great Central" was applied to the northbound platform wall fairly recently. I like the "secret stairs" that lead off from Marylebone, you can peer through the mesh next to a wooden door and see them. They are used for storage now I believe but once had something to do with the old station I expect. |
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Post by rincew1nd on Sept 10, 2014 19:50:02 GMT
AIUI (possibly from Tiles of the Unexpected the Great Central tiling was there originally; it may have been refurbished/replaced recently though. |
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Post by crusty54 on Sept 10, 2014 20:44:04 GMT
Pimlico looks nearly "as delivered" as well. The signage has changed I think, but it does have a very 60s feel Things at Pimlico will change soon |
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Post by theblackferret on Sept 10, 2014 21:26:14 GMT
AIUI (possibly from Tiles of the Unexpected the Great Central tiling was there originally; it may have been refurbished/replaced recently though.
Thanks for bringing such a marvellous tome to my notice, though, because I just found it brand new on eBay at half the price. Even used my own Paypal and not my wife's to pay for it, too!  |
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Post by rincew1nd on Sept 10, 2014 21:31:50 GMT
What a gruesome pun that book title is! Be careful, the author is a forum member. I'm sure he'll be glad to know you've ordered a copy! |
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Post by theblackferret on Sept 10, 2014 21:53:50 GMT
I didn't say I didn't like the pun, btw!!
And it worked, because that alone made me press your link!
I'm looking forward to the book, that's for certain, too.
Slightly on topic, we went to the Pompeii exhibition last year at the British Museum and were stunned to find the intricacies of faence tiling, as per Leslie Green, were not only on exhibition in the excavated gardens section amongst others, but that the Pompeiians had learnt the technique from Ancient Egyptian papyri.
Wonderful exhibition, and that was an unexpected highlight, even if the examples from the Bay of Naples were azure and aqua blues, rather than the familiar Leslie Green Oxblood/BloodRed/Terracota examples.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2014 8:44:23 GMT
Warwick Avenue and Holland Park just got added to Olympia on my list of things to do! The whole of the section from Marylebone to Queens Park is worth a visit. Warwick Ave and Maida Vale are interesting. Queens Park is a good place for photos and just to watch the trains reversing. |
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