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Post by blackhorsesteve on Jun 14, 2016 18:06:26 GMT
Just a video I found online of the extension from Liverpool Street to Stratford in 1946 that I found fascinating as I take this route often and it's hard to believe it happened where I often stand 60 years ago. Numerous shots of Standard stock, Stratford station, people dressed smartly and people smoking on the tube (not to be encouraged).
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hobbayne
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Post by hobbayne on Jun 14, 2016 20:31:43 GMT
I take it that its Liverpool St EB headwall that is shown at about the 2:40 mark?
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Post by stapler on Jun 14, 2016 21:18:30 GMT
70 years ago Steve, not 60!
Fur coats, cigarettes, bowler hats, where are they now?
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Post by blackhorsesteve on Jun 14, 2016 21:46:11 GMT
Oops! That's dumbed-down A-levels for you.
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Post by stapler on Jun 15, 2016 6:57:17 GMT
It's a sobering thought that quite possibly only the little girl shown two-thirds the way through, and maybe one or two of the younger women, are alive now, out of that cohort of [mostly] the great and the good....
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Post by arun on Jun 15, 2016 10:15:18 GMT
At 3:57-4:04 there is a view northwards across the GE main line platforms to the solitary curved platform with some steam visible. This was where the Stratford-Loughton-Ongar trains left from. In later days c.1961-3 [when unused owing to Epping-Ongar electrification] walking off the end of that platform was also the easiest way to "bunk" Stratford shed! Using the tunnel outside the station always ran a risk of being thrown out.
Arun
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