AlbertBeale
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Aldgate Bars?
Is that gone?! Haven't been there for ages...
Aldgate Bars?
Aldgate Bars?
Thank you; I've had that as an earworm ever since you posted that!Wooden escalators. I Can still hear the distinctive kerchunk kerchunk noise they made.
Sorry about that! Such an evocative sound though, I wonder if there's a recording of it anywhere?Thank you; I've had that as an earworm ever since you posted that!
Don't be too sorry; it's quite a nice earworm as earworms go.Sorry about that! Such an evocative sound though, I wonder if there's a recording of it anywhere?
Sorry about that! Such an evocative sound though, I wonder if there's a recording of it anywhere?
I did like the 1992 stock in NSE livery on the W&C, I do miss that it looked rather smart IMO.
Another one, not a sight as such, was the emergency brake being applied sometimes on the Victoria Line 1967TS when the ATO would nearly overshoot the platform (I believe? Not sure how it happened but wasn't at every stop, the times I went on it, it would happen now and again at at least one stop)
A little leftover thing that I always notice - at Piccadilly Circus, there are signs advising on "How to get to British Rail stations". I'm pretty sure that at least one of the suggested routes is now superseded by something quicker, but annoyingly I can't remember!
London Bridge, now quicker to go via Waterloo and the Jubilee Line?
It seems like old history when the travelator in that interchange passage actually worked ...Given the incredibly lengthy interchange between the Jubilee and anything else at Waterloo.
Not so fond memories of the Northern line trying to catch a Barnet train, many times the platform indicator would show "Barnet" then change at the last minute.Racing between the platforms at Camden Town because you didn't know (in one direction) which branch the train you wanted derived from. This lasted into the early 1970s.
It was switched back on in the passageway several weeks ago, after it was taken out of service following a fatality of a cleaner.It seems like old history when the travelator in that interchange passage actually worked ...
It was switched back on in the passageway several weeks ago, after it was taken out of service following a fatality of a cleaner.
This incident does not fall within the scope of the Raib as it does not concern the operation of trains, or the infrastructure which facilitates the operation of trains. HMRI (ORR’s safety arm) however are investigating the incident.Will we see an RAIB report on that, or is it outside their purview?
Does that mean travelling on the Bakerloo/Jubilee line tracks, or calling at the (now mostly-defunct) Willesden Green and Neasden platforms? I only thought that peak-hour Met journeys to/from Uxbridge did this until 1940/41.Met services calling all stations Finchley Rd to Wembley Park Sunday mornings.
At least topologically, even if not geometrically....
A circle line that was a circle.
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And even ditto the Evening News; and, once, the Star, in the days of 3 competing evening papers in London...
A single copy of the Evening Standard left behind, comparatively neatly, and someone keenly nabbing it for the journey.
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Weird looking trains in blue, and green.
Surely this still happens, happened to me last time I went on a tube which was February! Except in the old days it was the guards closing the doors.Drivers closing doors on the heads of those who are too slow.
Being cheekily pedantic, you can still alight from a Circle/Hammersmith and City line train and get to the concourse in 3 minutes. It's just that you have a 10 minute walk down the concourse to get to the platform, unless you are using Eurostar.Ability to alight for the mainline at St Pancras and emerge on the concourse in 3 minutes. No map or walking boots needed.
1986 Stock on the jubilee Line, prototype for the 1992 Stock Central Line, there was also a red one.What were these?