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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2010 21:40:44 GMT
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Post by apj64 on Feb 14, 2010 21:57:36 GMT
LoL can you imagine H&S allowing that in 2010. And I bet the cost was negligable and erected in next to no time
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Post by ruislip on Feb 15, 2010 0:09:57 GMT
Looks like the same picture that is on p46 of Bruce and Croome's The Twopenny Tube: The Story of the Central Line by Capital Transport.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2010 3:17:36 GMT
Is it me or the way the photo was taken but doesn't the train look really tiny in the tunnel?
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Post by Phil on Feb 15, 2010 9:42:16 GMT
Is it me or the way the photo was taken but doesn't the train look really tiny in the tunnel? It does, but remember it was a station being bricked up. So the train would (and they still do) look tiny in the context of the station 'box'. and viewed from above it inevitably gets interpreted by the brain (for an enthusiast) as a model , further confusing things.....
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2010 11:02:04 GMT
I thought it looked strange as well - looking at it again, it would appear that the original platform has been removed. It seems that the workmen are possibly standing on the ceiling of a room built in the lower half of the tunnel, and are building a wall to make a second storey of that room.
My reasoning behind this is that the photographer doesn't have an unduly elevated position and the picture is level - compare to the workmen - but the centre line of the picture is way above the roof of the train, which it could not be if the original platform was the vantage point.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2010 14:30:24 GMT
I thought I had seen this picture somewhere else and it being referred to as work being done in WWII to provide a multi-tier sleeping accomodation for shelterers. (But my old codger brain may be mixing things...)
*** Stop the presses *** I knew I wasn't dreaming. In Abandoned Stations of London's Underground by J.E. Conner, this same picture is shown on page 11 for British Museum station.
It says (quoted), "During the Second World War, the former platform tunnels were converted to air raid shelters, and these were brought into use in September 1941. The accommodation was located on two levels, with an upper floor being specially constructed from concrete. Here workmen are standing on this floor as they build a wall to separate the shelter facilities from passing trains on 19th Jume 1941."
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