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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2010 16:51:38 GMT
Publicity about the event on BBC TV this morning as well.
Can you just turn up at the door? Seems strange to have done all this publicity if they don't want any more people to come, but we read above about it being sold out. Were only a limited proportion of tickets made available for advance purchase, the rest being chance "on the door"?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2010 17:01:05 GMT
Was a great trip, I just hope my pictures come out OK.
While I was waiting for my tour to start, lots of people without tickets turned up expecting to be able to buy them on the door (or just wander in) as the publicity on the news/radio hadn't mentioned that pre-booking was required and that tickets had sold out.
Some of them got very upset or angry when they found out that they wouldn't be allowed in, the poor bloke who was manning the door said that it'd been like that all day and he'd even been spat at several times!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2010 17:56:27 GMT
I just came back home after 4PM tour. Fantastic time out! And I'm going again tomorrow morning  There were a lot of people without tickets, quite a lot were turned down because there were no free slots any more. And apparently they also sold out for tomorrow completely (and sold out even before the publicity!). |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2010 18:17:37 GMT
Were there "bawdy carnivalesque sideshows" to be seen as the SKY news clip indicated that happened in the Victorian days in the tunnel? ;D  |
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Post by Ben on Mar 12, 2010 20:23:52 GMT
This could potentially turn people off such events in future. Industrial and Archetectural heritage is certainly something that needs to become better appreciated by the masses. Stoopid media  |
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Post by bowchurch on Mar 12, 2010 20:46:48 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2010 20:49:59 GMT
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Post by Chris W on Mar 13, 2010 0:01:18 GMT
I also visited today (Friday) - I've just spent the last hour sorting through them and I've uploaded the best 81 photos: cjw1.fpic.co.uk/c1824508.htmlIncidentally does anyone have any idea what this might be  Its metal, sunk into the wall, but doesn't seem to be connected to anything... any ideas  |
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Post by londonstuff on Mar 13, 2010 0:04:59 GMT
My pictures are here - clickity clickA really good hour's entertainment  I was surprised few changes had been made to the platforms since the closure, this was still clearly visible:  My favourite photo out of all I've taken is this one  Lots of people were being turned away at the gate which was unfortunate and there were 'Sold Out' notices around everywhere. One woman expected the 'Fancy Fair' to be at platform level and was quite mouthy and ungrateful to the guides, who were trying to explain how lucky everybody was to be able to get down.
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Post by bassmike on Mar 13, 2010 15:04:15 GMT
chris W the metal insert in the cross arch could be an air expansion vessel for the old pump system?
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Post by 21146 on Mar 13, 2010 16:04:46 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2010 22:10:59 GMT
Wow! Thanks to all of you for some spectacular photos for us very remote viewers.
Some of your photos show the skills of professional photographers. Some of the lighting and detail are superb.
Almost as good as being there except for any olfactory ambiance.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2010 23:13:54 GMT
Almost as good as being there except for any olfactory ambiance. Actually, the tunnel wasn't at all dank and smelly. It was actually quite pleasant to walk through. |
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Post by bassmike on Mar 16, 2010 11:27:51 GMT
incidentally did anyone notice that the tunnel telephone/pinch wires are still in situ:? Are they still to be used ?
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Post by slugabed on Mar 16, 2010 11:55:16 GMT
Yes,I saw those,too....
I should have asked the nice man,but perhaps someone here knows the answer?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2010 11:55:45 GMT
incidentally did anyone notice that the tunnel telephone/pinch wires are still in situ:? Are they still to be used ? I noticed these too. I don't know anything about them, though. Were there "bawdy carnivalesque sideshows" to be seen as the SKY news clip indicated that happened in the Victorian days in the tunnel? ;D There were a couple of entertaining strongmen in bathing suit-type outfits, running around doing press-ups and generally saying "jolly good, what?" quite a lot. That was about as bawdy as it got, as far as I could see. There were also a couple of really good trapeze artists doing "incredible death-defying stunts!". It was all quite fun, in an appropriately quaint way. |
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Post by Chris M on Mar 16, 2010 12:00:30 GMT
The person I was speaking to did say they were the mid-90s vintage LU wires, and that he believes that they will be operational. As someone who works on the stations side of LU, rather than on LO, he wasn't completely certain that they would be used, as the trains are obviously also equipped for the alternative NR methods as well, but they would be available for use.
Perhaps one of the LO folk on this forum can clarify further.
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Post by Rich32 on Mar 16, 2010 12:57:37 GMT
The Waterloo & City line when in BR ownership (and for that matter in SR ownership) had operational tunnel telephone wires (I believe installed during the 1940 rebuild), so there's precedent there for them to be used in NR operation.
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Post by mrfs42 on Mar 16, 2010 13:00:19 GMT
Pretty sure that the underground bits in Liverpool also have TT wires.
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Post by pgb on Mar 16, 2010 19:05:18 GMT
Pretty sure that the underground bits in Liverpool also have TT wires. I think you're right - about a year ago I was at Hamilton Square and there was a sign saying "no tunnel telephone" or something like that anyway. |
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Post by tanner on Mar 16, 2010 20:21:39 GMT
Gents,
The TT wires are still the original system but have been refurbished and connected into the new traction system. Pinching them will kill the juice on the sections either side of the traction gap at Shadewll.
The traction power is now controlled by the NR chaps at Lewisham rather than the normal LU control centre at Leicester Square so a telephone connected to the wires will connect direct to them.
It will be used but only to discharge traction power in the event of an emergency, at other times the main contact to the Operational Building Complex at New Cross gate will be primarily via the GSM-R radio or signal post telephones.
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Its metal, sunk into the wall, but doesn't seem to be connected to anything... any ideas 
