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Post by danwoodhouse on Dec 20, 2021 22:42:24 GMT
or as I called them - "snooker balls on springs"
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Post by danwoodhouse on Aug 19, 2021 9:39:15 GMT
Why was the 1960 stock built as brand new motor cars coupled with (what would have been) aging pre 1938 standard stock trailer cars?
From what I have read, had the whole production run of 1960 stock happened all the train would have had standard stock trailers, not just the prototypes.
To me the whole idea seems a bit daft, I can't see what the advantage was to modernise older trailer cars to run with newer stock (esp as the stardard stock trailers must have been about 40 years old already!)
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Post by danwoodhouse on Jan 15, 2021 16:50:41 GMT
has anyone done any of the Metro Models kits?
what is the total costs of them as i am a bit confused for all the seperate items you need to make these models
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Post by danwoodhouse on Jan 20, 2020 9:32:26 GMT
I was just about to start a new thread of my own then I saw this
So is there actually going to be a 1992 stock refurb after all - PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE they need it, performance wise I have no problem, but the interiors of these trains have been a problem since day 1
The seats need to be pushed right back against the car bodies simple as, there's a good few inches of space going to waste behind those seats taken up by a vent that never seems to work well anyway
and how do they only get a bank of just 5 seats in the centre bay on the 1992 stock? the 1995 stock can fit 6 seats in the middle
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Post by danwoodhouse on Oct 16, 2019 7:37:42 GMT
jump to 41:32 -
notice all the doors open, I thought that was only done late in life on the D stock when the POGO switches were turned on way for winter and the other way for summer
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Post by danwoodhouse on Sept 3, 2019 20:25:10 GMT
pardon me for not understanding this to the full, but is all this to do with the eventual automatic train operation of the sub-surface lines? Yes, in part. The two pages of this thread will give you the details. So what's a C.B.T.C then?
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Post by danwoodhouse on Sept 3, 2019 20:06:41 GMT
pardon me for not understanding this to the full, but is all this to do with the eventual automatic train operation of the sub-surface lines?
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Post by danwoodhouse on Aug 13, 2019 20:32:29 GMT
If you asked the average commuter what do they think of the underground now compared to 30 years ago im sure the answers would be positive
The service is more frequent
The trains are much cleaner and faster
More information is at hand
BUT.......we have lost a lot
The only reason why I had any interest in the Underground was that travelling on it 30 years ago was like riding on museum pieces (why bother going to the LTM!) The trains has a look and sound that gave them a personality that said "this is London"
Watch any Undergound nostalgia video on youtube - say 1959 stock on the Northern Line, all the comments will be people saying how they miss the old trains....., but wait, are these the same people who 30 years ago were calling the Northern Line the Misery Line? and campaining for new trains.
I suppose London Underground was never ment to be a working museum. Its always been a system of moving people around London form A-B in the quickest way possible, its just that 30 years ago there was less money available so the system looke like it was a bit behind the time
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Post by danwoodhouse on Jul 4, 2019 21:15:45 GMT
Why the hell are London Underground bringing out these new style indicators which are about half the size of the old ones and with a much smaller letters font
with the old long ones i could see from quite a distance what it said - not so with these new ones
and whos daft idea was it to have the new describer/indicator at Mile End mounted on a column? - so you have to walk around the platform trying to find it.
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Post by danwoodhouse on Jul 4, 2019 21:00:59 GMT
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Post by danwoodhouse on Apr 12, 2019 7:29:40 GMT
so they were not all done at the same time
might explain why on video 125s Met and District video from 1989 the 2 A stocks at Whitechapel are both unpainted
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Post by danwoodhouse on Mar 31, 2019 22:59:36 GMT
when did the trial painted (but not refurbished) A stock trains first enter service
there is conflicting sources out there that say either 1988 or 1989
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Post by danwoodhouse on Jan 2, 2019 21:49:31 GMT
what happened about under 10 mins from Queensways to Bayswater
you can stand outside one of those stations and see the other without staining your eyes!
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Post by danwoodhouse on Oct 12, 2018 1:03:51 GMT
Can someone please tell me why is it that the doors on more modern stocks always take X seconds longer to open than the old trains
i remember many times on D stock (if you had the right driver) you could keep the passenger door open button depressed, the enable light would come on and the door would fly open while the train was still moving
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Post by danwoodhouse on Mar 26, 2018 7:47:22 GMT
So... what's the actual tunnel called then? Fred
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Post by danwoodhouse on Dec 30, 2017 9:47:04 GMT
please please can we get this argument settled once and for all
2 different news clips
It seems like because Mr Lawrence demanded a fee everytime his voice was heard LT pushed him out and asked Mr lodge to do it instead
I would be sure that Peter Lodge was doing an impression of Oswald Lawrence which must been so accurate that Oswald's wife Margaret is still going down the northbound northern line at Embankment to hear what she thinks is her husband, - and it is'nt.
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Post by danwoodhouse on Jun 22, 2017 7:50:46 GMT
Says "Class 315" in the Operational Information
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Post by danwoodhouse on May 21, 2017 10:01:10 GMT
so is the first day for the 345s tomorrow or Tuesday?
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Post by danwoodhouse on May 10, 2017 20:14:07 GMT
and ive just found him on Call My Bluff
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Post by danwoodhouse on Mar 10, 2017 15:55:19 GMT
Is the tour including parts of the Met aswell?
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Post by danwoodhouse on Feb 9, 2017 0:13:49 GMT
I'm not sure about that nose on the front of the class 345
dont seem right for a metro type train
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Post by danwoodhouse on Feb 9, 2017 0:04:45 GMT
are any d stock cars being withdrawn at Upminster?
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Post by danwoodhouse on Nov 17, 2016 23:51:18 GMT
why are Vivarail mixing up the D stock cars rather than leaving cars in the units as they were already in?
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Post by danwoodhouse on Oct 17, 2016 1:44:09 GMT
This idea seems so simple that I need to check if anyone has heard of it before
EQUIPMENT
A deck of cards with each underground station on them
Some not to difficault general knowledge questions (could use trivial pursuit family ones)
GAMEPLAY
The question master reads a question, the first player to get it right gets the top station off the deck
ask another question - get it right - win another station
the aim being to get enough station cards to build up a string of at least 5 stations in order
could also include a "dirty tricks" round where you can either have the top station from the deck or steal one from an opponent
What do you think forum members?
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Post by danwoodhouse on Jul 29, 2016 21:52:24 GMT
what are the chances that the service will improve with the linesplit in 2?
an idea which I'm sure was around in 59/72 stock days
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Post by danwoodhouse on Mar 27, 2016 22:50:48 GMT
just seen show 1 on the I-player
it seemed just like a carbon copy copy of the I.T.V and B.B.C series - camera crew hang around waiting for the incident to happen so they can video it so they get a scoop and give publicity to angry nieve commuters or drunken yobs holding the trains up
when is there going to be an underground series about the actual history of the trains themselves, a sort of television version of that underground movement book
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Post by danwoodhouse on Mar 27, 2016 22:23:34 GMT
And watch out for the continuity error at Dagenham Heathway
as we arrive from the cab the platform describer is hanging from side of the canopy - the scene changes to the platform and the describer is now in the middle if the canopy
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Post by danwoodhouse on Mar 12, 2016 10:36:25 GMT
heres an idea - rather than swing the advantage for those those who must stand why not swing the advantage in everyones favour like this
Holborn has the luxury of 4 escalators right?
so why not make the inner 2 escalators standing only and the outer 2 walk (or gallop!) up/down
how does that sound?
people like me who have perfectly good legs for moving ourselves through escalators shouldn't be disadvantaged by the other half
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Post by danwoodhouse on Aug 19, 2015 20:31:03 GMT
Of course it is because of engineering works, but today Circle Line trains were going "Loop de Loop" by which I mean travelling the full circle, including Baker Street to High Street Kensington direct whilst Hammersmith & City Line trains were running between Hammersmith and Aldgate, as they did (for a while) in the 1870's. When I set out from home this morning I was wondering whether the Hammersmith and City service would actually be withdrawn and instead either the Circle Line or the District Line trains that terminate at Edgware Road would be extended to Aldgate. Simon H&C withdrawn?
hang on what would provide the service to Barking via King's Cross then?
mind you I had a similar idea once - circles and H&C run Hammersmith-Edgware Road only and the District runs like the Northern Line as in Upminster to Richmond/Olympia/Ealing Bdy/Wimbledon via Embankment or King's Cross.
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Post by danwoodhouse on Aug 19, 2015 20:04:24 GMT
But if anyone has ideas on what might be workable within that constraint, PM me perhaps? Or post here. You could just "overground-ise" the S7 lines and just lump them together. Who needs History anyway What about take a cue from the first generation C stock D.V.A when you could set it up for example "this is Barking this is a SPECIAL SERVICE train to Embankment" - the phrase special service might help to draw attention
but then again does it really matter?.......................after all im old and wise enough to know that these special workings do happen and if the passingers cant work out from the D.V.A as in l1group's flickr video that the train is going at least as far as H.S.K then they be a bit......... well daft maybe?!
no I don't mean to be harsh but there are times in life (especially on the tube!) when the unexpected happens and you just have to use you brain
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