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Post by phillw48 on Jan 5, 2015 11:05:33 GMT
Do you mean the NYC Subway Museum? Sorry yes. Going to NYC in a few weeks and looking for new things to do. Don't forget your camera and bring us back some pics.
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Post by phillw48 on Jan 4, 2015 16:35:18 GMT
Sorry of topic but is the subway museum worth a visit? Alex Do you mean the NYC Subway Museum?
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Post by phillw48 on Dec 21, 2014 23:52:39 GMT
It was the name of a pub. The 'castle' was a howdah on the back of the elephant.
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Post by phillw48 on Dec 19, 2014 22:59:50 GMT
There was once a car driver stopped on a motorway only doing about 20 mph, it turned out his eyesight was so bad that he was registered blind. About 30 years ago I knew an elderly gent who suffered from dementia, but he still drove, he'd forgotten that the doctor had told him not to drive.
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Post by phillw48 on Dec 19, 2014 22:53:24 GMT
Yes, remains of it still exist buried beneath the streets. At one time it was used either as part of a drainage system or for telephone cables, I can't remember which now. A car from the system is preserved IIRC at the City of London Museum.
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Post by phillw48 on Dec 17, 2014 11:04:09 GMT
I should have read the post heading, I have subscribed to Back Track since the first issue. They do have a few Underground articles every year including some excellent colour pics. I actually have the current edition but hadn't started reading it.
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Post by phillw48 on Dec 16, 2014 21:45:37 GMT
What is it you came across Nigel? I can't find any link.
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Post by phillw48 on Dec 10, 2014 10:47:16 GMT
Glad to see it up and running again.
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Post by phillw48 on Dec 9, 2014 23:01:44 GMT
I have just gone to look at this site only to get a 'This website is not available' notice. I use Google Chrome to access this site and I tried using Firefox but with the same result.
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Post by phillw48 on Dec 4, 2014 11:53:28 GMT
About as likely as rocking horse poo, there's a general election coming up.
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Post by phillw48 on Dec 2, 2014 12:20:08 GMT
1) Is Homeward bound by Simon & Garfunkel.
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Post by phillw48 on Nov 28, 2014 23:35:22 GMT
I wonder what gricers will nickname them. My suggestion would be 'Wombles' because they used to travel to Wimbledon and in the words of the (Wombles) song :- "Underground overground". OK of got my hat and coat ready.
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Post by phillw48 on Nov 25, 2014 22:37:28 GMT
diesel-powered generator will take a few seconds to spool up Piston engines, even big aircraft ones, can go from idle to full throttle very quickly . A diesel engine will increase in revs until it wrecks itself if not fitted with a governor. This happens on occasions when the governor fails, that is why buses and coaches were and some still are fitted with an emergency engine stop. Most modern diesels are electronically governed and are stopped electronically. Lorry drivers used to stuff a damp rag into the air intake to stop a runaway diesel.
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Post by phillw48 on Nov 25, 2014 11:23:53 GMT
Westbound platform Dagenham East.
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Post by phillw48 on Nov 15, 2014 21:11:49 GMT
Willesden Green must be the only one left.
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Post by phillw48 on Nov 15, 2014 21:11:25 GMT
Willesden Green must be the only one left.
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Post by phillw48 on Nov 15, 2014 11:04:33 GMT
C Bounds Green?
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Post by phillw48 on Nov 14, 2014 11:06:22 GMT
Is the link the name ends in green? Location C could be Golders Green.
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Post by phillw48 on Nov 11, 2014 10:53:09 GMT
Obviously a war memorial of some sort and connected in some way with LU. So I'll take a guess that it is a memorial to the staff of the Metropolitan Railway who died in WW1. At Neasden? I don't think it will be necessary to explain why todays date was chosen.
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Post by phillw48 on Nov 4, 2014 9:14:20 GMT
Several decades ago the acronym was FACT - Fully Automatic Control of Trains. This was an evolution of the Victoria line ATO, I believe. Lowering the tone for a moment, some wags tweaked that to fully automatic railway train. I won't capitalise or abbreviate....
Quite a bit of testing was done with a modified 1960TS test train on Woodford-Hainault. It was only a test train and fully manned for tests but I think they got as far as demonstrating principles of quite a bit of what has to be automated. I don't recall that anything serious was demonstrated about safe PTI assessment and departure though. I seem to recall there was some 'forward thinking' about intelligent CCTV looking for obstructed PTI, but I don't recall PED's being pushed forward at that time, late 70s? IIRC the 1960 stock was used to test 'chopper' control and the cars so fitted carried the electrical symbol for chopper control on the cab fronts.
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Post by phillw48 on Nov 3, 2014 20:42:14 GMT
Yep, but photographed almost three years later. The wide view is from May 2008, the closeup from March 2011. I didn't spot that I'd got the sign twice until a few days ago. I wondered why I couldn't see the plant growing on the trellis in the close up.
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Post by phillw48 on Nov 3, 2014 14:29:44 GMT
Its exactly the same sign, even the rust patches are the same.
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Post by phillw48 on Oct 30, 2014 9:21:02 GMT
A very long time* since I've been there but it looks like the passageway connecting West Ken to the museums. *50 years at least.
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Post by phillw48 on Oct 28, 2014 19:44:16 GMT
Wrong coloured smoke to be oil. White smoke is usually caused by water, either condensation in a cold engine or a faulty head gasket. Its probably condensation as a diesel engine will lose a lot of power if a head gasket fails. Lubricating oil getting into the cylinders of a diesel engine is bad news as the engine will burn that as fuel and be almost impossible to stop and in the worst circumstances will over speed until it wrecks itself.
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Post by phillw48 on Oct 26, 2014 10:19:47 GMT
Loughton.
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Post by phillw48 on Oct 25, 2014 8:34:31 GMT
Kings Cross
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Post by phillw48 on Oct 22, 2014 16:26:46 GMT
Most metals oxidise to a greater or lesser degree, the best known of course is iron which breaks down to iron oxide (rust). Aluminium also oxidises but only the surface which is open to the atmosphere, aluminium oxide is a dirty white colour and this gives the impression of white paint. The green patina you sometimes see on bronze statues is also oxidisation, even alloys are not impervious. A lot also depends on the quality and type of the metal/alloy used this is why the doors on some tube stock appear to be whiter than the rest of the car.
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Post by phillw48 on Oct 21, 2014 16:57:12 GMT
Yes, it was teak but teak is now virtually impossible to obtain due to the moratorium on the export of tropical (rain forest) hardwoods. Finding suitable timbers for restoring teak bodied rolling stock has become a serious problem in recent years and any teak sleepers and shoe beams have been used up. Another source of teak has been chemistry lab tables as they can provide wider panels. A few years ago some teak trunks were discovered as deck cargo on a ship sunk during WW1. Despite being under the sea for 80+ years only the outer few inches had been attacked by teredo worms.
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Post by phillw48 on Oct 21, 2014 16:42:09 GMT
Crusty 54 is correct. OK, so there are UndergrounD fans on this site, but nationally, such enthusiasts are a very small percentage of the population. Such a museum would be a guaranteed money loser. Anyone who thinks differently should get out more into the real world of economics and bean counters. Who should pay for the losses? The same percentage could be the same for New York..but their subway museum has been successful for years As I stated before the New York museum is a sub surface station far more easily accessed than Aldwych. More importantly perhaps it is easier to evacuate in an emergency. The only means of egress from Aldwych is via one very long circular staircase, if that is obstructed anyone in the station will be trapped until arrangements can be made to evacuate them via one of the running tunnels.
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Post by phillw48 on Oct 21, 2014 16:32:49 GMT
When I traveled on the line in the late 60's early 70's it was a twenty minute service, semi fast stopping at Romford, Ilford and Stratford supplemented by the stopping service from Gidea Park. At the time this level of service was quite adequate.
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