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Post by tubelightonline on Mar 12, 2012 19:24:19 GMT
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Post by tubelightonline on Mar 9, 2012 22:34:00 GMT
Looking great, im thinking of asking my parents for a small one for my 16th birthday Loving the Met Moquette headboard! No doubt a few would be heading your way if your first Lottery ticket turned out to be a winner! Yeah, the new headboard is the result of my room receiving a "refresh" (can't say "refurbishment"!) and as the previous one dated from 1991 and looked decidedly past its best, I decided to invest in a replacement! Weirdly, the company that produces the furniture on behalf of the LTM is based in Nottinghamshire, so the delivery driver didn't have far to travel to drop this off! According to the website they attempted to deliver mine yesterday; I was out [at work]. Unfortunately they don't appear to have left a card to enable me to claim my rack, so now I don't know where it is [sad face]. Odd - they left a card for me but this was just to tell me that they'd left the boxes in the back garden - not that I could exactly miss two large boxes that were covered in Met-coloured tape! Fingers crossed it turns up!
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Post by tubelightonline on Mar 9, 2012 19:22:14 GMT
I have now installed one of my two expensive purchases to the wall (amazingly, it hasn't tried to fall off yet, despite my complete ineptitude to DIY and the fact that our internal walls would be stronger if they were made out of paper!); pictures have been uploaded and are available to view at: www.streetlightonline.co.uk/Tube/AStocksRacks.htm, should anyone be interested! For installing the rack, I used eight red Rawlplug Unos to gain a fixing, and 5mm x 30mm (No. 10 1.25'' in old money) countersunk slotted wood screws - as I say, this seems to do the trick!
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Post by tubelightonline on Mar 5, 2012 19:15:11 GMT
I was another person who decided to part with their hard-earned - mine arrived today, and because I didn't want to see Syd without Eddie, I went for both Little and Large (I realise that this joke is several decades out of date!) - yes, I really do need my head looking at!
I liked the little luggage-style tags that were attached to them - good theming! I was surprised at the number of "battle scars" that they've accumulated, however - just shows that they have actually seen use!
The next challenge...attempt to attach said luggage racks to the wall without becoming a candidate for a future episode of "You've Been Framed"!
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Post by tubelightonline on Jan 1, 2012 22:55:17 GMT
Ah, you found it! It came complete with genuine London Commuter chewing gum too - lovely!
It's worth a try if anyone else is after one - I just called them up one day to see whether they could assist, and after a few weeks of organisation, I nipped up (it's handy being less than an hour's drive from Rotherham!) and collected it. It did come at a price (< £100 admittedly) but it was worth it!
I'd definitely recommend contacting them by telephone - the postal and email addresses listed don't seem to lead anywhere. Details are on the CF Booth website (easily found via web search).
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Post by tubelightonline on Jul 23, 2011 8:03:55 GMT
Eh, how comes it's new!? Spares out of the depot? Apparently so - goodness only knows how it never came to be used! I had thought it might be a re-casting from the refurb days, but when I was speaking to an engineer during the Farewell Tour while we were at Uxbridge, he seemed to think that the only 'new' plates carried a Tickford logo (never seen one of these). He also commented that trying to remove a genuine Metro-Cammell plate was quite a task as a result of corrosion build-up beneath the plate, which didn't exactly fill me with confidence! I therefore had to pinch myself when this unused example turned up! Matt - I've sent you a PM with the cost listed. I don't know if there any more left, but I can ask.
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Post by tubelightonline on Jul 22, 2011 20:30:44 GMT
I've just found something unexpected above my wardrobe - this strange object, whatever it may be! Seriously, yes it is brand new - a massive thank-you to those who arranged the logistics of getting it to me; I don't know whether any of them use this forum, but I am very grateful for their help and assistance, regardless! If you're wondering, yes, there was a cost to acquiring this, but the money has gone to the Railway Children's Charity, so it was definitely worth it.
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Post by tubelightonline on May 22, 2011 9:40:17 GMT
Ah, so that was you! I'm pleased to see that I've been captured in possibly the best position ever: tinyurl.com/3cu6dk2! "Please Sir, can I go to the toilet..?"
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Post by tubelightonline on May 20, 2011 22:57:34 GMT
I have finally uploaded my photographs from the tour: streetlightonline.co.uk/Tube/67Farewell/index.htm. Public health warning: I appear in some of these photographs, either intentionally or not, so just be careful when viewing - I will not be held responsible for any sleepless nights caused as a result of the distress the sight of my face has brought to you!
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Post by tubelightonline on May 16, 2011 18:06:14 GMT
Here I am again: www.flickr.com/photos/cjw2/5726452566/in/set-72157626733643334 (wearing the blue shirt and standing near the staircase) ! I've hopefully now uploaded all of my videos (photographs ready by the end of the week - all being well!); they can be viewed at: streetlightonline.co.uk/Tube/67Farewell/index.htm. If you head back to the main Victoria line page, there are also three videos of 2009 Stock - my first time using them! Fingers crossed that the videos work now - some are 'slightly' on the large size, but shouldn't pose a problem to most modern connections...
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Post by tubelightonline on May 15, 2011 18:50:14 GMT
I can only agree with the comments that have already been posted - what a fantastic send-off for the '67s - a thoroughly enjoyable day - definitely worth enduring the 50mph speed limits on the M1! I appear to have been pictured in: www.flickr.com/photos/0causton0/5723300722/in/set-72157626727042122 - unless anyone else can claim to be the chap in the blue shirt on the right, that'll be me! My own photographs and video will appear in due course - no doubt a few of you may recognise yourselves in them!
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Post by tubelightonline on Apr 30, 2011 7:51:42 GMT
My ticket arrived this morning - I'll be in the sixth car.
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Post by tubelightonline on Apr 24, 2011 20:26:39 GMT
Given that I'll be attending, all being well, (I'll be travelling down from Derby, so it's going to be an early start for me...and on a Sunday morning too!) I've just thought that I'll possibly have the longest journey out of everyone on here, in order to be there - that's commitment for you!
As I've still to ride on an '09 TS (shock, horror!), I'll try and do that while I'm down as well - after being trapped in a '67 all day, it'll be interesting to compare the two!
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Post by tubelightonline on Oct 5, 2010 7:29:04 GMT
Speaking of the Met, I've seen a BTH-badged control box attached to one of the aspects at Amersham - BTH ceased to be in 1959, so that's also quite an elderly piece of kit!
(BTH = British Thomson-Houston, of course!)
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Post by tubelightonline on Jun 22, 2010 18:48:33 GMT
Have any of the original interior saloon features (seats, guard panels, etc.) been kept, or has the refurbishment seen all traces of the unit's former use disappear?
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Post by tubelightonline on May 5, 2010 7:15:46 GMT
No, it was previously attacked in Derby but not in London. Not guilty...honest!
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Post by tubelightonline on Jan 18, 2010 11:43:21 GMT
I've just noticed that: "Minor delays are occurring between Camden Town and Kennington via Charing Cross due to a fox on the track at Warren Street."
A little more unusual than the odd signal failure!
I assume that the creature wasn't "foxed" by the ticket gates, then..?
(Ahem - I'll get my coat...)
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Post by tubelightonline on Nov 20, 2009 21:23:15 GMT
For anyone interested, today (20th November) marks the 10th anniversary of the closure of the Jubilee line part of Charing Cross...how time flies when you're enjoying yourself!
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Post by tubelightonline on Nov 8, 2009 8:19:04 GMT
It's an abundance of WRTL 'Arc' lanterns!
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Post by tubelightonline on Oct 5, 2009 13:13:10 GMT
Inset #1 looks familiar - is it the bridge over the tracks at Derby station?
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Post by tubelightonline on Sept 7, 2009 20:42:21 GMT
I saw another complete S Stock train in the Bombardier yard yesterday (6/9/09) - it's only when you see them from a distance that you realise just how long they are!
How many S Stock trains (including this one) have been completed so far; are they all sent to Old Dalby for testing?
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Post by tubelightonline on Jul 28, 2009 11:29:56 GMT
Curiously, I spoke to a Victoria line T/Op at Brixton yesterday who A) didn't know what a "2009 Stock" was (I had to refer to them as "the new trains" before they understood!); and B) didn't know that one had been tested in passenger service!
On another note, I have now uploaded the photograph and (very) short video of the 2009 Stock stabled by the Bombardier works to the site. (streetlightonline.co.uk/Tube/Victoria.htm , if you're searching for them!)
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Post by tubelightonline on Jul 21, 2009 21:40:18 GMT
I too have seen a 2009 Stock train stabled but looking as if it was ready to go...though the one I saw was approximately 128 miles away from Northumberland Park Depot but less than 10 miles from where I am now! I managed to obtain a photograph (slightly distorted as a result of the fences and overgrown vegetation between my vantage point and the track) and of course this will appear on the site in due course!
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Post by tubelightonline on Jul 12, 2009 0:14:59 GMT
Assuming that the initial testing in Traffic Hours goes well on the 21st, will the tests be continued on subsequent days? I only ask as I'm hoping to be in London on the 23rd (coincidentally this is the same date that the section between Victoria and Brixton opened in 1971, according to the V125 DEV!) and of course would keep an eye out for the test train if I thought there was a possibility that it was running!
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Post by tubelightonline on Jul 4, 2009 7:24:46 GMT
It has already seen a bit of action in that case!
I spotted the cab end a while back (it was lying flat on a wooden crate without any kind of protection from the weather!) but it may have been moved since then, as I couldn't see it when I photographed the car section - though that may simply be as a result of the fence's construction: you need to be moving to see through it (as with a zoetrope)!
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Post by tubelightonline on Jul 3, 2009 19:45:39 GMT
I spotted part of a 2009 Stock car in Bombardier's yard the other day (I told you that living in Derby has its advantages!) - it had yet to be painted but I'm pretty sure that's what it was! Of course I took a picture for the site; that's now on there if you'd like to see it, [along with some more sound effects (1938 Stock especially!) and a couple more line car diagrams]. Oddly I couldn't see any other 'Underground' trains in the yard, although there was a completed Overground Class 378 visible behind the 2009 Stock section. Funnily, in seeing the 2009 Stock car section I was instantly reminded of a photograph taken in 1991 which shows a 1992 Stock car being assembled: www.hpacde.org.uk/picturethepast/jpgh_derby/DRBY000446.jpg - not a lot to them really, is there!
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Post by tubelightonline on May 3, 2009 0:29:26 GMT
Thanks - the long run between stations above ground certainly suggests a location on the Met...I hadn't noticed the continual thudding of the flat until you'd pointed it out - well spotted!
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Post by tubelightonline on May 2, 2009 14:48:09 GMT
I have acquired some more 'BBC Sound Effect' records containing various sounds recorded around the Underground network and have again converted them to MP3s in order for them to be listened to online - unfortunately, unlike the previous record which mentioned the actual line on which the recordings were created, these new three only give generic descriptions as to each track, and do not mention any lines, meaning that some of the 'train' sound effects could be several different Stock types.
I have uploaded the files to the 'Miscellaneous Underground' section of my site - can anyone identify which Stocks have been recorded?
There is also some other new material uploaded to have a look at - one item which may be of interest is a PDF copy of a diagram I came across recently which details the locations of equipment in the 1959/62 Stock trains, complete with a section providing definitions for the many abbreviations used for different pieces of equipment.
Have fun browsing!
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Post by tubelightonline on Apr 14, 2009 7:12:37 GMT
The dark blue tiles of 'A' remind me of Mornington Crescent...
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Post by tubelightonline on Mar 14, 2009 8:23:11 GMT
I think quite a variety of different hangers were used over the years - the seller whom I bought that one off is also selling one from a Standard Stock car: 290301220525 (I'm not going to bid on this one so if anyone else wants it, help yourself! ). The hangers used for Tube stock were shorter than the Surface stock hangers due to the lower ceiling but even so, the designs are similar. I also have a bobble hanger from (believed to be) a 1959 Stock car (http://tinyurl.com/b7nx63) and also now have one from a 1938 Stock car - the only real differences I can see are that the latter has a green fixing bracket, brass top, rusty spring and an internal chain, rather than a tension wire.
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