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Post by westville13 on May 12, 2021 23:55:02 GMT
Perhaps other contributors can remember the correct title of a fascinating book published in the late 1980's which covered LU engineer's stock - something like "Underground Workhorses"? My copy has disappeared...
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Post by westville13 on Sept 27, 2020 16:17:17 GMT
Somewhere on a canal? Violet/Ilderton Road way?
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Post by westville13 on Jul 20, 2020 17:19:24 GMT
I only used the emergency handle in these circumstances once some years ago at Embankment when I would have missed my last train from Charing Cross if I had been carried over. It felt like an emergency at the time - and was certainly welcomed by other passengers trying to get off.
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Post by westville13 on Jun 5, 2020 18:30:38 GMT
+1 location A Wood lane
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Post by westville13 on Feb 17, 2020 20:55:09 GMT
I would be most interested in acquiring a (short) length of the marked conductor rail (RP has been my local station for many years). Presumably it will all just go for scrap?
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Post by westville13 on Jan 5, 2020 15:11:17 GMT
Gosh this bodyshell shape took me back to the change over days with D stock. This is in my view still the most handsome Underground stock ever - even in this condition. Wish I had space for it.
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Post by westville13 on Jan 5, 2020 14:49:54 GMT
Too obvious that only four begin with a "W"?
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Post by westville13 on Oct 3, 2019 16:11:53 GMT
A real guess. White City for A?
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Post by westville13 on Sept 16, 2019 16:33:03 GMT
Background somewhere on the Jurassic Coast?
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Post by westville13 on Aug 20, 2019 18:10:09 GMT
Tilbury + 1
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Post by westville13 on Aug 17, 2019 18:50:29 GMT
Thamesmead?
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Post by westville13 on Jul 31, 2019 19:15:30 GMT
Not sure exactly where but is B somewhere near West Brompton?
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Post by westville13 on Jul 24, 2019 19:53:25 GMT
Thank you metroland for all this wonderful modeling and particularly for reminding me of runner bean wigwams. My father had a battered set of bamboo sticks which were brought out each year and tied together with red tape (the real thing). Don't forget the black fly on the broad beans and the cabbage white butterflies...….
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Post by westville13 on Jul 17, 2019 22:09:49 GMT
Is C a lock on the Grand Union Canal?
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Post by westville13 on Jul 2, 2019 14:41:17 GMT
Try again. It looks like a landscaped waste tip Chatterley Whitfield colliery?
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Post by westville13 on Jul 2, 2019 0:35:07 GMT
Insert remains of Brighton West Pier from the sea front?
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Post by westville13 on Jun 30, 2019 20:43:48 GMT
Is the background Northala Fields in Northolt by the M40?
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Post by westville13 on May 18, 2019 13:39:41 GMT
I do wonder if the elevated railway might be New York? Possibly under the High Line if no operating sections still exist?
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Post by westville13 on May 6, 2019 19:12:08 GMT
Location B inset Eltham Palace.
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Post by westville13 on Apr 6, 2019 16:54:21 GMT
The California Arms public house (after which Belmont Station - down the line from Sutton - was originally named) was so-called because the owner had taken part in the California Gold Rush. Rushes seem to have been a particularly 19th century type of event and there are certainly many other examples of this sort of naming.
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Post by westville13 on Mar 30, 2019 20:08:25 GMT
Is inset 3 Budapest underground museum?
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Post by westville13 on Mar 30, 2019 20:02:42 GMT
As one whose daughter's first words (allegedly) were "Not another old church Daddy" I think there is a real risk of boring children rigid while still not giving the enthusiasts what they want. In the real world museums have to earn their own living (or persuade the tax payer to fund them which comes to much the same thing) and families are critical to the visitor mix - one industrial museum I am involved in earns about half its ticket income from families with young children and a further big chunk from tourists - "expert" visitors come third. And that is before you start on venue hire where the really economy proof activity is children's parties. But once you get them in through the doors you can work on them......
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Post by westville13 on Feb 2, 2019 18:39:46 GMT
+1
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Post by westville13 on Jan 31, 2019 23:45:49 GMT
Is inset 2 the entrance to the Royal Hospital Chelsea?
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Post by westville13 on Nov 24, 2018 0:27:21 GMT
Location A - bridge in Ravenscourt Park?
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Post by westville13 on Nov 11, 2018 17:50:41 GMT
This doesn't come from a religious building or from a building in Russia. The Wikimapia link is an accidental left-over from a previous question. Is it a building in Istanbul? 19thC. Maybe Haydarpasa or Sirkeci stations?
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Post by westville13 on Nov 9, 2018 21:36:20 GMT
Outset in B looks almost like Islamic tilework - How about the Registan in Samarkand [just dropping names!] Or somewhere nearer home - Leighton House?
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Post by westville13 on Nov 9, 2018 21:19:37 GMT
Having been involved in building conservation for many years, I am more and more convinced that "zoos" of moved buildings, however much fun they are in their own right, are not the answer. Conserve in situ whether for the original function or repurposed (like the Great Northern Hotel) or record and demolish. The new St Martin's is a wonderful example of re-use. And sometimes you can keep a façade (indeed the "oxblood" facades rather lend themselves to this) and lose the rest - but if a building can no longer earn its own living eventually it will go - we cannot afford more than a few pensioners (English Heritage are already struggling and even the National Trust has problems - they have I believe just given up Eyam because they cannot make it work financially). As to the relative merits of old and new buildings Big Jim Stirling's No 1 Poultry replaced a listed Victorian building,and was hugely condemned for doing so, and has now been listed itself as of national importance. Times change and so does London. And so it should. For a city to stop changing is to die.
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Post by westville13 on Sept 8, 2018 21:47:20 GMT
Is the insert London Bridge station from above?
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Post by westville13 on Sept 1, 2018 13:19:25 GMT
I have never been "small". The worst rolling stock I regularly travelled on was between Carshalton Beeches and Victoria in the early 1960's - broken down and filthy seats, six a side seating with interlinked knees (and heaven help you if you had to stand) rain and drips inside the compartment, patchy or non-existent heating and so on. Moving to the District Line was an improvement; the introduction of D stock was terrific; and S stock is better. I am happy to be nostalgic on the Bluebell Line but overall things have improved massively in the last 50 years. As for interior finishes these are surely just a matter of taste - certainly I welcomed the introduction of formica and fluorescent lighting when it came to the later Southern Region emu's.
Announcements on the other hand...….
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