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Post by SE13 on Feb 16, 2008 7:20:35 GMT
Saturday sees a single part question for your delectation.  *Click for larger version* Answers on postcards, PM's, replies and all of the other usual forms of communication. |
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Post by railtechnician on Feb 16, 2008 10:00:26 GMT
That looks remarkably like King's Cross Picc E/B west end tailwall. The platform repeater repeats the wrong road starter and the shunt to the Loop. I had the dubious pleasure of relamping the yellow in that repeater which has to be reached almost blindly putting one's hand up through the mesh from behind the enamelled panelling. Beneath the repeater tucked in behind the panel is the 'train ready to start plunger'.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2008 11:01:51 GMT
Shot in the dark
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2008 16:26:31 GMT
I'm with railtechnician on this one, KGX E/B. (If I'm wrong you have permission to shoot me as I spend nearly 6 days a week standing at the end of that platform!)  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2008 20:25:16 GMT
King's Cross Piccadilly eastbound + 2
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2008 20:57:38 GMT
+3
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SE13
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Glorious Gooner
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Post by SE13 on Feb 17, 2008 5:47:17 GMT
Well, my sheet says Kings Cross Piccadilly - repeater for loop to Northern Line as taken by MRFS42. No shooting will be needed  |
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Post by railtechnician on Feb 17, 2008 11:31:57 GMT
Well, my sheet says Kings Cross Piccadilly - repeater for loop to Northern Line as taken by MRFS42. No shooting will be needed I'm sure we're all relieved about that! That particular pic just jumped off the page at me and brought back not only the memory of relamping the repeater but the occasion which was probably in 1999. My colleague, whose maintenance area it was, was taking his IRSE licence test so even though he was based in our King's Cross depot, was on site that night, and with other colleagues to assist him, I was given the job along with a few others on his patch. King's Cross was the first and I got filthy doing that relamp. My colleague died I think the following year at the age of 48, one of several dying at that age within an 18 month period. By 2002/3 the King's Cross depot was unmanned due to shortage of staff and finally closed sometime afterwards. It was perhaps the dirtiest signal depot on the Picc line based in a cross passage between the Vic platforms. It is amazing, the memories that a single shot can evoke! |
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