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Post by camperdown9 on Mar 9, 2017 10:46:44 GMT
Hi
Do you collect items relating to London Underground and if so what? Also how do you display them?
I have a few signs, a few bits of moquette, three luggage racks and a few timetables...oh and a couple of maps. A few years ago other half and I decided that we didn't need a dinning room so we each have our own living rooms. Means that I can have my platform signs in my living room.
Yesterday I announced that I have saw another platform sign that I would like and the atmosphere went a bit frosty. (Didn't think it was the time to say that I also want a roundle at £1000k )
Alex
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Post by stapler on Mar 9, 2017 12:16:54 GMT
A million (£1000K)for a roundel? Seems a bit steep to me!
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Post by camperdown9 on Mar 9, 2017 12:57:33 GMT
oops!
I meant £1000 or £1k.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2017 13:13:00 GMT
I've always wanted a station roundel to hang on the wall too, but they are hard to come by and pretty pricey!
I do have some posters and suchlike from the Museum Shop, including a lovely big Way Out sign pointing towards my front door.
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Post by humbug on Mar 9, 2017 13:17:55 GMT
That reminds me I need to put up my (C stock ?) luggage rack. I intend hanging an umbrella from it, and need to search out a bowler hat.
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Post by MoreToJack on Mar 9, 2017 13:48:23 GMT
That reminds me I need to put up my (C stock ?) luggage rack. I intend hanging an umbrella from it, and need to search out a bowler hat. A stock. |
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Post by humbug on Mar 9, 2017 14:00:28 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2017 14:10:37 GMT
Don't use No Nails
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2017 14:19:04 GMT
This is a fun piece of art I picked up in TK Maxx, featuring many well-known Tube station names printed on wood. I'm not sure if it's a one-off or not, but it looks neat on my living room wall.  |
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Post by rincew1nd on Mar 9, 2017 14:58:53 GMT
So in my house there's:
C Stock blind:
A Stock rack:
(The curve is to fit the profile of the A Stock - there is a gap between the top of the rack and the wall)
There's also a tread-plate built by Cravens in 1961 along the threshold of the French doors into the garden, presumably from an A Stock (but happy to be proved wrong!)
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Post by John Tuthill on Mar 9, 2017 15:16:19 GMT
I think there's a clue in the picture  What does it weigh, and what sort of wall are you mounting it on, stud partition or brick? |
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Post by humbug on Mar 9, 2017 15:22:08 GMT
It's about 3kg, and I've got a hammer drill to go into our concrete wall.
It's more the slight curve in the back - I was wondering whether it needed padding out with anything to go onto a flat wall.
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Post by rincew1nd on Mar 9, 2017 15:30:18 GMT
I think mine is just some 1½" or possibly 2" screws into brown Rawl plugs in my (brick) wall. Upon closer inspection just now I appear to have slackened the screw which holds the tray to the bracket and used the force of the screw to pull the bracket into the wall, before re-tightening said screw. Certainly no packing-pieces involved.
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Post by tjw on Mar 9, 2017 17:57:37 GMT
"No nails" means that you need to use screws... Anyway, "No nails" and similar compounds in lab conditions work fine, but in real life it is best to use some other fixing as well. The "No nails" can then prevent the fixings coming loose. |
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Post by trash80 on Mar 9, 2017 19:55:24 GMT
I have quite a few surplus map stickers and signs which the LTM friends sell on their stall, they're up on various walls and the tube train sign about giving up your seat i've put in one of the windows of my car. Plus i've got this on my chromebook...  I've also got an SID (think thats the right name?) on my front door...  |
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Post by rincew1nd on Mar 9, 2017 20:28:23 GMT
I've also got an SID (think thats the right name?) on my front door... Please tell me you live at either number 2 or 236! |
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Post by trash80 on Mar 9, 2017 20:41:28 GMT
Well there is a 6 in the number |
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Post by trash80 on Mar 10, 2017 17:49:15 GMT
Probably the only Ford Fiesta that has one of these...  |
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Post by camperdown9 on Mar 10, 2017 18:38:16 GMT
Current Collection. I bought this from LT Museum via their website, unfortunately they put the moquette on in the wrong direction.  Couple of station signs  First luggage rack  Second luggage rack, station ticket office sign and a NIR sign.  Third luggage rack and the only one to be attached to a wall. Plus Northern Line map.  Latest purchase cushion with crossrail moquette. I do have a few stickers, a small piece of old northern line moquette, a few timetables and that about it so far.  Alex |
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Post by trash80 on Mar 10, 2017 18:50:18 GMT
I love that cushion!
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Post by tubetraveller on Mar 10, 2017 20:20:27 GMT
I've got a couple of maps from the museum and Acton open days, plus a set of bed covers that somebody bought me Only thing I've got on display at the moment is one of the temporary signs from when LO first came about  |
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What does it weigh, and what sort of wall are you mounting it on, stud partition or brick?
