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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2007 13:23:11 GMT
Got a few photos of it in Northfields Depot last week. Must remember to put my sunglasses on when I pick that one up!! DOC
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Post by Phil on Apr 13, 2007 13:36:11 GMT
So the two sides are different colours: novel!!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2007 13:54:07 GMT
What is the significance of this livery?
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Post by c5 on Apr 13, 2007 14:04:23 GMT
What is the significance of this livery? To try and brighten the place up through the Platform for Art programme
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Post by gavelex on Apr 13, 2007 14:44:58 GMT
What is the significance of this livery? To try and brighten the place up through the Platform for Art programme "Thin City" or somthing
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2007 15:31:44 GMT
So the two sides are different colours: novel!! It looks like they reversed the colours for each side ie blue doors red body, red doors blue body. A step back to red stock on the modern fleet The 73 would look nice all over red like the 38.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2007 16:35:05 GMT
Hooray, I wasn't going mad! ;D I saw this on Wednesday morning going to work, but was so "out of it" I thought I was dreaming! Looks good!
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Post by version3point1 on Apr 13, 2007 18:51:04 GMT
What is the significance of this livery? Part of the ongoing centenary celebrations. They've rolled out the Picc's to last the year in the form of Platform for Art installments, with the 'Thin Cities' competition being one of the first installments, coinciding with the release of four designer Oyster card wallets (which only a handful of people ever got their mitts on - they were offered free through the centenary events' website).
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Post by SE13 on Apr 14, 2007 7:23:30 GMT
When did that one spring up?
Still, it's nice to see they are making an effort for The Centenary. I was beginning to wonder if it would pass without notice.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2007 12:23:10 GMT
There is a poster repeating the blue pattern of the train and reffering to the Piccadilly Line platform for art on the westbound platform at Monument (District Line) by the passage to the Northern.
I assume it also appears elsewhere on the network as well.
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Post by jazza on Apr 15, 2007 1:12:00 GMT
Can anybody supply the numbers of the carriages that have been "redesigned"
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2007 9:18:11 GMT
Greetings, I'm delighted everyones enjoyed looking at my pictures. The Train Concerned was displayed for the interested partys and the press on wednesday 12th, dare say its been in service by now, any sightings ?? Units on show were 250 one end + 231 t'other. Charmed Phil ginstersrailwayphotos.fotopic.net
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Post by Chris M on Apr 16, 2007 18:25:11 GMT
There is a poster repeating the blue pattern of the train and reffering to the Piccadilly Line platform for art on the westbound platform at Monument (District Line) by the passage to the Northern. I assume it also appears elsewhere on the network as well. There was also a note about this. based on the red pattern, in one of the advertising spaces on the Bakerloo train I got yesterday.
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Post by Ben on Apr 17, 2007 4:16:03 GMT
A friend sent me a pic of it at Ruislip Westbound. Seems pretty novel. It would be nice if more special liveries turned up from time to time for various events. Maybe a 72 in Mars Bar?
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Post by Chris M on Apr 17, 2007 8:28:57 GMT
An A-stock in Metropolitan Railway livery would be good as well
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2007 11:18:35 GMT
Great to see variety, and hope to encounter it sometime!
I also wonder how long it would take for it to get "tagged"
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2007 18:15:42 GMT
Will there be other "art trains" like this ?
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Post by prjb on Apr 21, 2007 22:57:10 GMT
Am I the only one who thinks this particular platform for art project is a waste of time and money? I don't like the 73 after seeing it 'in the flesh', I think it is a horrible design and only serves to dillute LU's corporate image. Yuck! Bah Humbag etc!
On another note, did anyone ever see the single 72 Stock trailer car that became surplus to requiremnets following a collision? They trialled one end in Northern livery and the other in Bakerloo before the 72's were refurbished.
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Post by tubeprune on Apr 22, 2007 6:42:34 GMT
Am I the only one who thinks this particular platform for art project is a waste of time and money? I don't like the 73 after seeing it 'in the flesh', I think it is a horrible design and only serves to dillute LU's corporate image. Yuck! Bah Humbag etc! I agree. I haven't seen it in the flesh but I've seen a number of photos and I think it makes a mockery of the Picc centenary. I have strong views about liveries, particularly as I was involved in rejecting all the experimental colours until we got the Orsman livery. I remember a 72TS car I went to see in Acton Works. I thought it was an UNDM. It had half the interior mocked up for the refurb. I think it was Bak or Vic Line. At the mid point a mirrored screen was placed across the car to give the full length impression. I'll rummage in my back office to see if I still have anything on it.
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Post by Colin on Apr 22, 2007 8:26:30 GMT
Having travelled in car 250 the other day, and so having seen it in the flesh - I agree it's a bit naff. All of the adverts inside have been replaced by similarly contrasting panels stating that it's a 'platform for art' job celebrating the Picc's centenary, and how the design was specially commissioned from a professional artist.
A professional artist?!
I wonder how long it took him to come up with it, and how much he got paid for his expertise?
I can't imagine many people thinking this is the best LUL could have done - I certainly don't!
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Post by Chris M on Apr 22, 2007 9:26:06 GMT
I've not seen it in the flesh, but from the photos I agree its not a particularly nice livery. Perhaps what would have been better would have been reinstating the livery in use when the line opened (whatever that was) - certainly far more relevant.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2007 9:36:57 GMT
I've not seen it in the flesh, but from the photos I agree its not a particularly nice livery. Perhaps what would have been better would have been reinstating the livery in use when the line opened (whatever that was) - certainly far more relevant. Something like that would have been fun, but I guess that TfL insist that the doors stand out for DDA reasons.
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Post by Chris M on Apr 22, 2007 9:51:10 GMT
I know there are exemptions from the DDA for heritage liveries on preserved railways, and for livieries applied before a certain date (2000 I think). I also have a vauge feeling that heritage liveries can be given exemptions in certain circumstances - one train out of a fleet of ~88 trains, would seem like the sort of thing that might be given that sort of exemption.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2007 9:54:08 GMT
That doesn't sound so bad - change the body to silver and keep the red doors. If a 1972TS can run around in such a configuration, then a 1973TS can do the same.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2007 9:59:07 GMT
That doesn't sound so bad - change the body to silver and keep the red doors. If a 1972TS can run around in such a configuration, then a 1973TS can do the same. The 1972 mkII units looked really good with their red doors.
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Post by Ben on Apr 22, 2007 14:06:55 GMT
But the doors dont all stand out on the train. On the blue side I'm sure the drivers door is red, which when combined with a red front looks strange
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Post by prjb on Apr 22, 2007 20:02:49 GMT
Wow, I genuinely thought I was going to get 'slapped down' for saying I didn't like it. It's nice to know it isn't just me being a misery then!
tubeprune - I for one would love to see that photo if you have it.
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Post by tubeprune on Apr 22, 2007 20:25:01 GMT
I don't have a photo. I was invited to Acton to see the mock up as I was supposed to approve it. I complained about the lack of end windows but it was too expensive to fit them and we couldn't afford it.
I know a man who might have one. I'll ask him.
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Post by Ben on Apr 23, 2007 0:41:57 GMT
The fact that LUL have actually done something the public can 'enjoy' is deffinately good; and the principal is great. But it is a bit naff. Deffinately a step in the right direction, but im sure a lot of people would have preferd something a bit more period and a bit less non-descript. Novel, but a bit of a wasted oppertunity
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