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Post by glen on Nov 30, 2019 16:48:10 GMT
No more Bacon Teacakes then.
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Post by glen on Sept 3, 2016 14:58:33 GMT
That really looks good in that livery.
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Post by glen on Aug 31, 2016 19:04:13 GMT
I seem to recall working a six car rocket back from Barking one night it did move and we were held at most regulating points.
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Post by glen on Dec 5, 2015 14:51:46 GMT
I always preferred Motorman to Train Driver or Train operator, though I thought my payslip always had MM02, don't know what the difference was between that and MM01 unless MM01 was a trainer.
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Post by glen on Nov 30, 2015 18:37:06 GMT
Personally I think the Sir Peter Hendy one is an ugly design.
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Post by glen on Nov 29, 2015 17:48:39 GMT
well I succumbed, having to go down to Chichester yesterday it seemed a shame not to nip down to Gaugemaster picked up No 9 John Milton for myself, it is very nice.
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Post by glen on Aug 15, 2015 19:20:01 GMT
They look very nice.
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Post by glen on Jan 18, 2015 16:33:42 GMT
Blimey, whilst I only did 11 years on the combine I started out on CO/CP, R stock and C69/77, then along came the future with the new D Stock, now C stocks gone D's have been through a refurbishment and are now on the way out I'm really feeling old, the S stock is the price of progress but I still cant take to them yet and I do miss transverse seating still enjoy looking out of the windows in open sections at least the S8's still retain some.
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Post by glen on Jan 13, 2015 19:33:20 GMT
Very nice indeed.
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Post by glen on Dec 21, 2013 21:58:10 GMT
Great set of photos Chris, I've been to Quainton road a couple of times definitely a place to spend a day I wish they would make the NY Subway car more accessible it would be nice to have a closer look at it. Glen. It was more accessible a few years ago, you could sit inside it to eat your lunch. The bad news is that it was completely gutted before it was acquired by the BRC. The drivers cabs were sealed off but I understand that the controls are absent as well. Ah thanks for that info Phil, that's a shame it would have been interesting to see a complete one, never mind I must spend a day up there again next year. Glen.
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Post by glen on Dec 20, 2013 18:30:46 GMT
Great set of photos Chris, I've been to Quainton road a couple of times definitely a place to spend a day I wish they would make the NY Subway car more accessible it would be nice to have a closer look at it.
Glen.
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Post by glen on Dec 15, 2013 18:49:40 GMT
Ah, how could I have forgotten Arthur Roberts he would always sing Men of Harlech if Zulu had been shown the previous day when we were booking on for early turn I remember Tom Kenna, also Eddie Grimm who was one of the depot motormen he also fixed watches as a side line there was also a depot guard called Peter who was from South Africa.
When I was at Acton Town I recall an incident of detonators being put under the guards position when said train pulled away to enter service there was a lot of noise and one very shaken guard, one job I never enjoyed when preparing a train for service on a shed road was pulling the overhead leads out, that plug never came out easy and always hoped the compressors wouldn't start up or if you had a Motorman who thought it would be fun to notch up.
I remember coming into Mansion House one day with a well known PG character he'd made the tea at embankment we stopped briefly at the start of Mansion House platform and when we'd stopped fully I found a city gent holding my tea can stating the driver had asked him to hand it to me.
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Post by glen on Dec 15, 2013 16:34:35 GMT
Basil Humphries, not a well liked Yardmaster could be particularly nasty just for the sake of it I agree I don't know how he never came to blows, Felix Alphonse was the old school gentleman a very nice man to work for we all called him Felix but he would always call you by your surname, Len Preston was the third Yardmaster with Bert Gill the depot clerk, Ossie Baird used to cover from Earls Court for YM's leave.
I remember the depot railman short chap with glasses he came from the Northern Line IIRC, lived at the top of one of the Arndale blocks he often used to joke about putting Tchaikovskys 6th on sitting on the window ledge with a Vodka contemplating jumping, he was a good bloke though.
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Post by glen on Dec 14, 2013 21:44:46 GMT
I was at PG from 1979 to 89 apart from a short time at Neasden on the Jubilee, I remember the name Harry Mason although I can't place the face however I definitely remember Lou Lawson, as you say a great character I worked as his guard quite a few times, I remember him joking that he'd fired train down one day and got lost outside the station and that was how he ended up on the Underground.
There was certainly some tea drinkers at PG and plenty of well seasoned tea cans though my rostered Motorman Steve Earle took me to one side on my first turn with him and insisted it was coffee only.
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Post by glen on Sept 15, 2013 19:01:23 GMT
Always enjoy these short films.
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Post by glen on Jul 6, 2013 18:09:02 GMT
I remember back in the 80's east end crews working the occasional Edgware Road service to keep their training up to date, also as an ex PG man working the Circle line on a Sunday our turns were either Wimbledon -Edgware road or Circle Line we didn't touch the main.
Although doing 4 & 3 or combinations there of could be boring, remember no shops open on Sundays those days apart from people going to Petticoat Lane so it could be dead at certain times of the day it was always interesting to cover the City Widened Lines.
Glen.
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Post by glen on Oct 13, 2012 19:21:37 GMT
A good selection there, makes up a nice looking set.
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