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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2010 15:12:47 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2010 20:27:16 GMT
I don't recognise the Controller sitting at the desk at "3.44" (before my time at work) but the man walking in to relieve him is Bill Payne, an ex-signalman who became a Traffic Controller. I worked with him in the 1970s and 1980s when we were both Traffic Controllers. At "5.32" the man nearest the camera is another Traffic Controller colleague, Bob Grant. Sadly, both are no longer with us.
At "21.02" the man at the Controller's desk is Ken James. He, like I, became Head Controllers (him long before me) and we worked together as such in 1984-89. Ken and I still exchange cards at Christmas.
At "8.27" the station control room is at Holborn, which was then an experiment. The room was in the "crow's nest" in a small room overlooking the bottom of escalators 4/5/6/7.
Note also at about "6.54" the lower regulating room at Leicester Square, which was built in the bottom of the disused lift shafts.
Such wonderful nostalgia .......
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Post by tubeprune on Jan 23, 2010 20:58:28 GMT
I remember the Holborn control room. One day, my driver (Frank Heavens) and I were doing the early morning Aldwych train and we were chatting with the inspector at Holborn. He told us they had just got the CCTV system going and would we like to have a look. As we had some time before we had to work the first trip, we accepted and got the grand tour, including having a go at the pan and tilt cameras. We were told that sometimes the view got interesting late in the evenings with courting couples. There weren't so many people around late at night in those days :-). And you could see the bottom of the escalators directly from your seat in the room through a one-way mirror.
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Post by ruislip on Jan 23, 2010 21:05:13 GMT
Ahh, the memories of seeing green buses with "London Transport" on their sides, and people smoking on the tubes.
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Post by Oracle on Jan 23, 2010 23:14:47 GMT
These views were of parts of London 'before my time' and quite amazing. I saw the end of the trolleybuses, and the intro of the RMs on route 117 but rarely went on the tube until '66 when I used to commute to school. Now I pore through magazine images for the mag, and find myself trying to identify commercial vehicles on these films just bas I do with old glass-plate negs. And for a living!
Thanks for posting these links.
Just a quick query with the film: I assume that it was Stockwell Garage with the RTs, RTLs, and RMs but what were three green Country Area RTs doing there? Stored? Hammersmith's Riverside had a Green Line, usually a RF I think, parked up as an inner London relief in case of breakdown, and I think a red RT on the 116 stabled overnight at Country Area Staines Garage but that's the extent of my recollections.
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