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Post by stanmorek on Feb 13, 2009 20:57:36 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2009 21:07:14 GMT
I wasn't sure what to expect until I opened the link, I half expected to see images of drunken passengers or piles of vomit  Some interesting shots, but the following one surprised me: www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1870615_1823152,00.html I hadn't realised the Vic line suicide pits were so deep! |
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Post by stanmorek on Feb 13, 2009 21:27:05 GMT
www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1870615_1823144,00.html Not all pits are that deep I can't explain the one in the photo. But I have read somewhere* that the Vic line was to be built with train inspection pits at some locations. * The Victoria Line, Follenfant, ICE 1970 Stabling sidings south of Victoria with one in a 14ft diameter tunnel with shallow pit for examination of defective trains.
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Post by yerkes on Feb 17, 2009 12:55:40 GMT
www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1870615_1823151,00.html I think the the caption should probably read 'to cause minimum disruption' ;D Excellent photos - thanks for posting the link.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2009 11:57:35 GMT
Cheers for the link, great set of images there!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2009 17:44:20 GMT
While the location of some is obvious, have the quiz fanatics managed to locate them all yet?
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Post by Tom on Jun 24, 2009 18:41:23 GMT
www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1870615_1823144,00.html Not all pits are that deep I can't explain the one in the photo. But I have read somewhere* that the Vic line was to be built with train inspection pits at some locations. On stretches of line built after the introduction of pits, the pits on the side nearest the platform tend to be deeper. The Victoria Line pits are as deep as I am tall (about 5' 8"). Photo 11, BTW, is the SB approach to Victoria. Whilst you may not think so, it getys very cold overnight, as I found out when commissioning a mod on the points last Christmas! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2009 22:29:22 GMT
What a superb set of pictures! Thank you. If you ask me, whatever they pay those guys, it ain't enough! I love the shot on the escalator with the guy with the glasses descending looking over at the guys who are on the way up as if to say 'lucky B*******'!
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Post by railtechnician on Jul 21, 2009 16:58:10 GMT
www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1870615_1823144,00.html Not all pits are that deep I can't explain the one in the photo. But I have read somewhere* that the Vic line was to be built with train inspection pits at some locations. On stretches of line built after the introduction of pits, the pits on the side nearest the platform tend to be deeper. The Victoria Line pits are as deep as I am tall (about 5' 8"). Photo 11, BTW, is the SB approach to Victoria. Whilst you may not think so, it getys very cold overnight, as I found out when commissioning a mod on the points last Christmas! Mmm, the Vic line pits are deep. Perhaps the worst I recall is at Finsbury park where the pit was open to the invert which regularly had several inches of stagnant water in the bottom. I always imagined a passenger falling into the pit had a good chance of catching something nasty. I expect that under fire compartmentalisation the access between the pit and the invert was bricked up years ago, I think the last time I was under that platform was in the late 1980s when I surveyed the cable routes all stations from Euston to Walthamstow. |
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Post by londonstuff on Jul 21, 2009 19:04:48 GMT
I think this particular photograph has probably been Photoshopped with the man being superimposed from another image... www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1870615_1823144,00.html Not all pits are that deep I can't explain the one in the photo. But I have read somewhere* that the Vic line was to be built with train inspection pits at some locations. * The Victoria Line, Follenfant, ICE 1970 Stabling sidings south of Victoria with one in a 14ft diameter tunnel with shallow pit for examination of defective trains. |
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