Deep Level Crew Depots on Bakerloo and Viccy

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Are Seven Sisters and Buffalo & Rook the only remaining examples of deep level crewing depots on the Underground?

The one at B&R looked close to being rebuilt when I last saw it, and last I heard the one at Seven Sisters was to be resited at ground level.

[Tom]

Elephant is the only one left; the staff at Seven Sisters moved upstairs sometime last year.

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There is also North Greenwich.

[Tom]

Strange that, the Bakerloo line bulletin issed to ops staff a few months ago said E&C was the only one left.

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Tom said:

Strange that, the Bakerloo line bulletin issed to ops staff a few months ago said E&C was the only one left.

North Greenwich is definitely underground, they even have a canteen underground.

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Yep, and what a bloody depressing place to spend a meal break!
To make things worse, there's no smoking room (because of the S12 regs) so the smokers among us had to climb two sets of steps to go outside for a fag break!

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AlanL said:

Yep, and what a bloody depressing place to spend a meal break!
To make things worse, there's no smoking room (because of the S12 regs) so the smokers among us had to climb two sets of steps to go outside for a f*g break!

So that didnt stop you smoking?! Does seem odd to have an underground train crew depot, hopefully they have Air Con?

[Tom]

Seven Sisters never did - it was a disgusting place. E&C is affectionately known as the Goldfish Bowl.

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Tom said:

Seven Sisters never did - it was a disgusting place. E&C is affectionately known as the Goldfish Bowl.

I have never had the pleasure of going to either of them. I have been to quite a few above ground mess rooms though, which i can imagine are a tad nicer! ;D

[igelkotten]

As a international side note, the underground crewing point of Mörby here in Stockholm (closed in the late eighties) is based underneath the station of Mörby Centrum on the red line. The depot offices are part of a huge underground complex, part bomb shelter, and part never finalised underground maintenace and stabling depot for a planned northern extension of the line.

The ventilation system is,however, dimensioned for the originally planned purposes, so small, lightweight, drivers can be swept off their feet by the gale-force winds and end up stuck to some ventilation duct in the roof.

Well, almost, anyway. You can at least throw traffic circulars in the air and watch them sail away through the huge caverns into the darkness, never to be seen again.

[Tom]

Igelkotten said:

Well, almost, anyway. You can at least throw traffic circulars in the air and watch them sail away through the huge caverns into the darkness, never to be seen again.

Hmmm... this sounds like fun. Any chance you could ask to be loaned out to LIH over the summer? There could of course be the downside of me getting blown around like a kite as well though. ;D

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From Mr Igelkotten's message:-

Well, almost, anyway. You can at least throw traffic circulars in the air and watch them sail away through the huge caverns into the darkness, never to be seen again.

I bet you guys would like to see some managers do that?

[igelkotten]

Q8 said:

I bet you guys would like to see some managers do that?

Yes, please!

And can we have some horrible screaming and sulfur-filled pits while we are at it, too?

/Igelkotten

[subwayrail]

I joined the Vic line just in time to experience the downstairs messroom at Seven Sisters during my training. While it could be a dark and depressing place whith a disgusting tea machine, it had the advantage of having satellite TV, and in particular Sky Sports. Also, it was very convenient for anybody waiting for a staff train as it was just off platform 4 (the road to the depot). Drivers would always come to the messroom and call out the staff train.

Although our new facilities upstairs are much brighter, there is no more Sky Sports, only Freeview, but we did gain a pool table. Better be on the platform in good time for the staff train, though - its too far for drivers to walk up to tell everyone.

Nobody ever explained where the Sky box went (or the viewing card).

[DWS]

subwayrail said:

I joined the Vic line just in time to experience the downstairs messroom at Seven Sisters during my training. While it could be a dark and depressing place whith a disgusting tea machine, it had the advantage of having satellite TV, and in particular Sky Sports. Also, it was very convenient for anybody waiting for a staff train as it was just off platform 4 (the road to the depot). Drivers would always come to the messroom and call out the staff train.

Although our new facilities upstairs are much brighter, there is no more Sky Sports, only Freeview, but we did gain a pool table. Better be on the platform in good time for the staff train, though - its too far for drivers to walk up to tell everyone.

Nobody ever explained where the Sky box went (or the viewing card).

How did you get Sky T V to work deep underground ?

[subwayrail]

DWS said:

How did you get Sky T V to work deep underground ?

Good question. I suppose it required a fair length of coax from the roof. Or it might have been a cable box. I had precious little time to admire it before it vanished.

[Tom]

subwayrail said:

Good question. I suppose it required a fair length of coax from the roof.

That was the arrangement we had in the T/O depot at Brixton... and at Seven Sisters in the days before the depot moved into Sarah House.