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Post by billbedford on Jan 29, 2019 12:06:16 GMT
On the Daily Mail Site there is a selection of Underground photos. Among them is one showing a busker entertaining some people in a "tube" carriage, except the carriage is obviously an ex-LNER buffet car. Some on another forum have asked whether this carriage could have been part of a LT related working, does any one know? Interestingly the end door has a bolt and lock which is not original. Of course it could have been an ordinary publicity shot taken at a main line station. |
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Post by goldenarrow on Jan 29, 2019 12:29:36 GMT
billbedford I tried clicking on the link, but a message came up for a broken URL. Either that or my phone has developed an intolerance for the Daily Mail!
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Post by toby on Jan 29, 2019 13:08:19 GMT
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Post by whistlekiller2000 on Jan 29, 2019 13:39:26 GMT
MoreToJack, I didn't know you could play the guitar......  #lookylikey
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Post by goldenarrow on Jan 29, 2019 13:46:49 GMT
Cheers toby , Could it be that this was an LNER carriage was part of a service working over the joint lines? |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2019 15:55:48 GMT
Link now works correctly it was originally linking back to this page again so an endless cycle
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Post by slugabed on Jan 29, 2019 19:48:22 GMT
The captions on Getty Images are often woefully inaccurate,as a f'rinstance,another picture on the same page says that Hainault is in Middlesex...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2019 20:03:03 GMT
Well they got the last 3 letters right
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Post by brigham on Jan 30, 2019 8:53:49 GMT
Gresley tube stock?
Now that's food for thought.
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Post by philthetube on Jan 30, 2019 9:39:54 GMT
There were Buffets on the peak services from Chesham.
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Post by littlejohn on Jan 30, 2019 10:48:55 GMT
According to 'Steam to Silver' the Met Pullman services offered light refreshments including breakfast on the Up morning trains (from Verney Junction) and a light supper on late Down trains from Baker Street, to cater for theatre traffic.
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Post by billbedford on Jan 30, 2019 13:28:56 GMT
Yes, but the pullman service was withdrawn during WW2 and not, as far as I know, reinstated afterward.
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Post by 35b on Jan 30, 2019 16:35:33 GMT
Yes, but the pullman service was withdrawn during WW2 and not, as far as I know, reinstated afterward. And didn’t use Gresley stock... |
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Post by greggygreggygreg on Jan 30, 2019 19:36:12 GMT
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Post by theblackferret on Jan 31, 2019 10:24:13 GMT
A quick thought on the alleged busker.
There was, in 1957, a skiffle group called Jimmy Miller And The Barbecues, who released a record called Sizzling Hot, produced by the legendary Joe Meek.
Most of the group worked on the railways & regularly performed at Greenford Station. Unfortunately, I can't find any publicity material on them, but there was a pic on the sleeve notes of the CD Joe Meek The Lost Recordings from 2009, which I once had.
Interesting choice of title, given this thread, as was, given this site, another title they did-Freewheelin' Baby.
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Post by roythebus on Jan 31, 2019 18:48:13 GMT
The only buffet car I know to have been "used" on the underground was a BR Mk1 RMB at Drayton Park for crew accommodation in 1976 when BR took over the line. It was stabled in the shed.
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Post by AndrewPSSP on Jan 31, 2019 21:06:28 GMT
Drayton Park...stabled in the shed. I'm assuming this used to be where the big patch of empty space is looking out from Platform 2, right? |
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Post by roythebus on Feb 4, 2019 23:44:26 GMT
Dunno, not been round that way since 1978.
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Post by miff on Feb 5, 2019 13:05:06 GMT
Not a buffet but there were reports a few years ago of a proposed ‘fine dining’ service on the SSL using LMS inspection saloon DM45029. I assume this came to nothing and 45029 remains incomplete at Eastleigh - no idea why LUL bought it in the first place, the dining idea was reported several years later.
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Post by Chris M on Feb 5, 2019 13:49:37 GMT
A 1996 carriage has been used as a dining car on at least one occasion
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Post by grahamhewett on Feb 13, 2019 22:03:14 GMT
Then there's the restaurant in the ex-Victoria line stock at Walthamstow...
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